Aaaand i just had another crazy idea... declare peace so a lord stops running from you, catch up to them, then declare war again. Costs 200 influence, but might help with some of the faster ones and maybe save some time. There's a reason Warband had a minimum time for peace and war lol.
I’m using a similar dirty tactic for fiefs. Gather army, declare war, take fief, declare peace. The tributes are disgustingly expensive but money isn’t really an issue for me.
@@Tentin.Quarantino Yeah at one point I was paying 270k per day to Vlandia to maintain peace while I beat down the western empire. I controlled everything except Vlandia at this point so money was irrelevant.
One of the best runs I ever watched. Amazing job. Though personally I like conquering not executing.. but learned a lot form Ur video. Amazing. Sub and like we'll deserved
I’m fairly new and I’ve been really struggling to find ways to start and develop a kingdom and this is by far the best accidental videos I’ve come across very entertaining and informative, I think I’m going to try the beheading method also seems a lot more fun than winning as a vassal
Damn, that was an unfortunate start. Other than that, you were super slick! My playthroughs last forever cause at the start of the game I just Solo Looters and Bandits to power level my combat abilities, then I focus on breaking the game with smithing (to get rich quick), before I start hiring recruits so I can make them into archers. My army composition usually looks like this; 60% Archers, 25% Infantry, 15% Cavalry (usually horse archers). I also like to take part in all my battles, so most of my game is spent in battles and commanding my army (or defending my Castles).
Same, I like to usually play at my own pace and enjoyment, as a way to chill out over how fast I can take over calradia. Everyone bought the game though, plays it how they find amusement or enjoyment out of it. Though most bannerlord videos and playthroughs on RUclips seem to be focused on speed runs.
Derthert will do anything to give me as few fiefs as possible even when my relationship with him is 100, after like 5 years of working for Vlandia I had 4 castles
@@Saltywengiellthey tend to favor vassals that have no titles. But they do seem to be quite generous at times. I got a town and a castle almost as soon as i joined an empire
I learned alot just in the first 2 hours (especially trading smithing) . I usually go to warrior way by also fighting alot by myself (no hurry for my gameplan;) ) but man im impressed usually didnt spend even one point in trding and smithing and dont even know why i didnt tryed it out. Thx for that
Yes, if you are playing 1.7.0 then smithing is a lot harder than it is in this run. It can still make money, but not as much and it's harder to get good parts.
@@realitycheck908 my guy im still pumping out two handed swords. Literally only took 30 mins or less to grind smithing up just enough to where i can sell swords for 50k at any city.(average amount a city/trader has) Got millions and I'm chillin. Once you find that part combo that sells for high you're chillin
@@SloppyCanada I make 2 handed polearms (long glaive) and sell them for 23k each. It requires a wood 2 fine steel and 2 steel. What's ur recipe for the 50k sword?
well done mate ! i never ever got to the point of world domination the best i did sofar is conquering Vlandia and like 1/3 of battania :) anyways great video and good job :)
Thanks for watching! Conquering too much can get a bit boring after a while. Even in these runs where everything goes pretty quick, the middle part is a bit tough. Near the end when you are almost done it gets more exiting again.
Around 52:11, i think i'd try to bait the 600 army near the 900 army. Siegers never break a siege to chase you, but they count as friendly troops if a battle starts close enough to the siege camp. If you manage it, you can then negotiate with your allies and buy all the nobles, then execute them. (ah, i see you got it after a while) As for how: check an allied troop for prisoners. If any of the prisoners show as being wounded, they are lords. Regular troops that get captured were wounded by default, so when you see "cavalry: 54 + 2w" you know they have two lords captured. You can see it even from a distance by using the alt key to see more info on allied troops. Then go in, make an offer and buy the prisoners. For me they always charge 1 coin for any amount of prisoners, but i hear 1.6.5 fixed that. BUT you have to be fast. As soon as a noble captures another, they beeline for the nearest city and put it there. Calling the winner to your army works if they're very close, but generally you have to catch them before they reach the jail. Another trick i'll advice is to use other clan members as recruiters. Take all troops from one of them, leaving only 10 or so so they wont die to looters, and dismiss them from the army. They'll go back to recruiting, leaving you free to do other stuff. I'd also advise keeping a few prisoners, like 5 or so, because its free recruiting. Let's see what else... Leave a weak garrison at a border castle, because enemies will ALWAYS go siege it. I think you ended up doing it with Vlandia, but i'm not sure if it was on purpose. If i might ask though, why not kill the mercs? You'll have to fight them over and over as they switch from one kingdom to the next. I get that they'll die if they stay to the end, but at least when the opportunity presents itself you might as well. Costs half a second, and has a good chance of saving an allied army or keeping a village from being raided so you can recruit from it. Even if they're neutral, its more parties taking up recruits.
Final idea before i go to sleep: Stick to a kingdom all the way through as a vassal. Then give up all your fiefs so you can get voted and always have the city nearest to the warzone, because that's where your allies will deposit all the nobles they capture. This way you might be able to get a bunch of NPCs to do your job for you, but i have little idea if it would work other than "it kinda worked for me by accident a couple of times". Another risky move would be to leave a city with a small garrison and close-ish to the front but not as the first line. The enemy comes to siege it, your allies break the siege and immediately deposit all the enemies in your dungeon. I've done this by accident when my kingdom was at war on multiple fronts and it works pretty well... until the enemy actually took the city, but by then i had already gotten like 8-10 heads without having to fight for any of them.
Wow! I'm honored that you took the time to write such a detailed reply. I won't respond to everything, but I'll take the suggestions into consideration. I'm sure there are a lot of things that can be done faster, but it'll take some time to identify+verify+practice the fastest strategies. >> when you see "cavalry: 54 + 2w" you know they have two lords captured I didn't know that. That's really neat, thanks! >> If i might ask though, why not kill the mercs? You'll have to fight them over and over as they switch from one kingdom to the next. >>I get that they'll die if they stay to the end, but at least when the opportunity presents itself you might as well. >>Costs half a second, and has a good chance of saving an allied army or keeping a village from being raided so you can recruit from it. >>Even if they're neutral, its more parties taking up recruits. If I kill a merc lord, another one will spawn and take their clan party slot. So keeping them as prisoners actually minimizes the merc parties on the map, I think. >> Stick to a kingdom all the way through as a vassal. Then give up all your fiefs so you can get voted and always have the city nearest to the >>warzone, because that's where your allies will deposit all the nobles they capture. This way you might be able to get a bunch of NPCs to do >>your job for you, but i have little idea if it would work other than "it kinda worked for me by accident a couple of times". I'm not sure I fully understand how this would work. Sounds like it could be good, but I'm just unsure. My strategies for farming prisoners as a vassal are underdeveloped at the moment. What I can say though, is that I need to make my own kingdom pretty early so that I can farm enough influence to pass all the policies I want and 500 for the first vassal. All of this should be done before the first inheritance. In this particular run the inheritance was delayed by like 45mins so I had plenty of influence, but I'm not sure that is always the case. >>Another risky move would be to leave a city with a small garrison and close-ish to the front but not as the first line. The enemy comes to siege it, >>your allies break the siege and immediately deposit all the enemies in your dungeon. I've done this by accident when my kingdom was at war >>on multiple fronts and it works pretty well... until the enemy actually took the city, but by then i had already gotten like 8-10 heads without >>having to fight for any of them. Again, sounds like it could be good, but I'm unsure since it sounds like another thing were you'd need to stay as a vassal for longer.
To illustrate my point of an ungarrisoned castle: around 2:50:00 you accidentally leave only like 4 dudes in Veron Castle and they immediately go for a siege. That's a great bait, since even small lords will go for the siege. And once they start building the siege camp they'll be disorganized if they try breaking the siege.
And yeah, i've been giving this sort of strategy some thought because it's very similar to a "autoresolve-only world domination" challenge i've been doing. Can't do sieges with autoresolve, so eliminating all the nobles is the way to go. Which reminds me: autoresolve gives less weight than it should to elite troops. So you can actually use bandits and militia to a decent extent, or at least dump them in a castle somewhere. This actually makes breaking a village raid pretty good, since you get some 5-10 militia for free. Another trick i'd never use in a normal playthrough but might be good on a speedrun would be to leave wounded troops in a garrison. Sometimes you're walking around with like 90 troops and 130 wounded. That's when you should consider putting the wounded ones at a castle (when you transfer units away the game always sends the wounded ones first) and picking fresh ones. The downside is not leveling your medicine, but it should speed things up quite a bit.
Great run, learnt so many new things. A lot of the flashy streamers dont get into the detail of the game. Few things ive noted if anyone can clarify: * you have your parties all the lower tier units. Is there better pay off giving higher tier? * can you sign mercenary contracts once you become king? * noticed you voted for a city even though the outcome % was lower. One event you had 1-2% lower and still got it. * how does the inheritance work? One plan must have a castle in the dejure or the oriignal kingdom? * whats the sweet spot for speed of your party? * how do you decide which items to keep?
Hey man great video! I was actually very surprised it got only ~18k views. I initially though its due to save-reload, but I now think that its just too long. I watched at least 3 hours of it but its repetitive. My suggestion is to keep this of course, but make also a montage of important parts, and then link this video as a proof to that one. 20 min video could cover all the important milestones, and it would be so much fun to watch, and the most important aspect will be that you have linked the full video as a reference. Just a friendly suggestion, Im not a youtuber, and have no idea how things actually work here, but great job! Hope you post more
(Btw I understand if you didnt do this for a video, but its really very nice, so just a little work of editing, would help a lot more people enjoy your achievement)
Thanks! 18k views is amazing for me. It's like 3x my previous best performing video. I'll definitely try doing more highlight videos in the future. I'm kind of new to this YT thing myself, so I'll have to try out different strategies.
@@LesserScholar You conquered all in less than 7 hours. Do you know how long it took me and probably many other people?... Your video deserves a LOT more views! Regardless, great job and keep it up. If you have some time and give a "highlight"/optimized length video a try, I would definitely dive in to watch
40:43 he is doing everything too fast and i play on ps4 so it is a bit different... What is he doing here??? Buying stuff from karawans then sell it in town or what??? It is too fast i cant understand what is going on
Great video. I noticed that your campaign map is extremely smooth. Any tips you could share? I get micro stutters when moving around / zooming in and out / entering towns.. but in battle with 800 troops the game runs like butter.. campaign map stutters is my only flaw with performance. Many thanks !
wow, speedruns hypnotize me and this was awesome (edit: quick question why trade skill 300? as far as i remember it gives the ability to buy castles and cities but you did not use it did you? )
@@LesserScholar Please explain. I've watched, but I still don't understand how they gave them to you. I've tried that and they give them to minor factions that don't even have fiefs instead of giving them to me, so I'm left killing everyone on the map who isn't in my immediate family. Its exhausting.
@@keithreed5952 The basic version of rules of inheritance is as follows: Geographically closest clan inherits; Player's own clan cannot inherit; If inheriting clan is a vassal, their liege inherits instead. As far as I understand landless minor clans should not be able to inherit, but rebels clans with land can. If you have a save file where landless clan inherits I would be interested to see that.
@@LesserScholar Ok, correction...it was a landless minor rebel clan that I hadn't exterminated. They were still at war wtih the eliminated kingdom. It was just my clan and two landless minor rebel clans (living in my cities) and I didn't inherit anything. One point of clarification..."Geographically closest clan inherits"...closest to what? The main city of the eliminated Kingdom or to their Kingdom as a whole? Players own clan cannot inherit...then how do you get them? This helps a ton. Thank you so much. I've spent hundreds of hours with my current playthrough and it has been frustrating...I've quit multiple times and played other games. I haven't watched the entire play through, but are you "buying" captured Lords to execute from other Kingdoms? I love that mechanic. After a large, failed siege, you can scoop up half a dozen easy and then declare war on the wounded party you just purchased them from and eliminate a dozen Lords in one blow. Great videos. Thank you!!
@@keithreed5952 Position of a clan is a weighted average of their settlements. So just imagine where the center of mass is located. I create a vassal clan that inherits. So I trade castles until my vassal is close to the center of the dying enemy kingdom. I sometimes buy enemy lords for executing, yes. I probably didn't do that often enough in this run.
She's just chilling and traveling around the world. There seems to be quite a few Forsaken in this world. I'm not sure what's going on with that, but looks like she has it under control.
Sorry for the potentially dumb question, but why do you execute lords? To weaken the enemy and not have them respawn? I usually avoid relation losses out of personal preference.
When all the lords of a kingdom are dead, their lands are given to a nearby kingdom/clan. In this run, I make sure everything is given to me. So I get all the fiefs by executing all enemy nobles.
@@babyray5643 Get 300 trade, a lot of money and influence. Then you can do what I did here ruclips.net/video/MeQxTwYMObo/видео.html Use influence and 300 trade to recruit a lot of noble clans for "free" (you pay them with fiefs you can get back with influence through voting)
@Lesser Scholar, at 36:18, when you select 2 handed sword, your previous template automatically loaded with all the previously selected tiers/settings. But for me, it always loads with tier 1 parts. Is there a setting/mod to do this? i'm playing on campaign, v1.6.5
Nice speed run! I noticed the difficulty was set to "Freebooter" which is the easiest difficulty setting (i.e. reduced damage to you and ally troops significantly). Curious to see what if you ran it in the hardest difficulty mode, "Bannerlord" preset?
I'll do 'Bannerlord' difficulty run in the future. It'll make the early game fighting a bit tougher and lower movement speed sucks, but it shouldn't change much. I have some new strategies that make me think it's very possible to beat this run on harder difficulty. Thanks for watching!
The closest clan inherits all the fiefs, but the player can't inherit directly. So I make sure that my vassal is close to the center of the dying kingdom. When my vassal inherits the fiefs, they come to me because I'm their king.
I want to know too!!!! I literally killed everyone in vlandia and then everyone in the northen Empire and now everyone on the Asserai but couldn't take them lands
Does this trade-exploit still work? I tried it as you did, exactly at Marunarth and didnt get as high numbers, we had exactly the same Social and Trade focus points.
I does still work, but the hardwood price in Marunath is kind of random. The more they pay the more xp you can gain. Also make sure you sell enough charcoal so that you can buy your hardwood back from the caravan for like 6 or 7 a piece.
@@LesserScholar Righto, I think I didnt do to well on the charcoal part. Just aimed for 125 skill to get the renown up fast with caravans. Took longer time then yours but decent. Just wanted to create my own kingdom =)
That is so awesome. I had to do a double take when I saw his character name choice. Hands down my all time favorite book series. Did you know that there is a group working on The Wheel of Time mod for this game? You can play as the forsaken. They also have the sedai and ashaman troops with the One Power throwing spells.
Is it the version that you're playing that allows you to execute lords in the prisoners screen? In the update I'm on I can't. It tells me I can't execute because I'm still in battle.
Did they nerf send troops since he dropped this video? Really informative and entertaining video but watching how you can conquer the game while auto resolving every battle puts me off from wanting to play it haha
Question for you. I watched your speed run and was inspired to play the game again, and imitate what you did. Did smithing, and got 300 trade. Im now working as a mercenary to kill off lords. Problem is, when I execute them, they don’t actually die. Do you know why this is, or how to fix it?
Thanks for watching! Unfortunately I haven't had that issue ever myself so I don't know how to help. Sounds frustrating and I hope I never get it in a run
Enable death and birth. - if not than the new feature of not allowing anymore executing when u execute him he goes back to his fief as a with 0 troops.
Late reply, but in 1.7.0 you need to have aging/death option on to kill nobles. They changed it so that all heroes are actually immortal if you have that option disabled.
I would have to mod the game to remove it, and modifying the game is kind of against the spirit of speedrunning. I think in future I'll have the game sound be so low that the sound won't be distracting.
was working on a campaign version of this and got to my last sturgian noble to find out it just gives all the castles etc to the next kingdom in line, kind of a pain
Difficulty settings, cavalry comp and fighting mostly lower tier enemies. I have max difficulty runs on my channel as well if you'd like to see the difference. Even on max difficulty I only use send troops, but I have to be a bit more careful in the beginning.
If you have an older pc, you could try out the prequel, Warband. It has worse combat and graphics, but it's more balanced and has more mechanics & stuff to do.
@@LesserScholar The combat being perceived as worse is very subjective. Most mp-focused people prefer Warband's combat and many still play it to this day. Bannerlord is undeniably prettier though and the exploits are a lot of fun. They are the reason I found this channel and I am glad I did.
@@jedrzejlipowski173 Fair point. I never got into Warband mp, but I've heard a lot of good things about it. Warband combat has higher skill ceiling so it's better for competition. But I think Bannerlord has better game feel. Hits feel satisfying, the way horses move is smoother, etc.
I use trade 300 to guarantee I inherit the fallen kingdoms, e.g. at 2:58:08 3:48:14 4:04:15 I don't know any way to get enough money to buy all the settlements in 6 hours.
Hey guys, when I killed all Vladians Nobles, Battanians got the credits, I mean, after killing the last noble, the kingdom went to Battanians, why would is that? I'm already a king, why it wasnt transfered to me?
I made this video to explain the inheritance: ruclips.net/video/yyz7Xx2iGRY/видео.html If you get unexpected results after trying to follow the rules, make sure your game doesn't have too many landless clans, as explained in the last chapter of the video.
Firstly the game difficulty has an effect on auto-resolve battles. It's not drastic enough that you can win fights where the balance of power meter is heavily against you, but it definitely helps reduce casualties a lot. Second reason I can think of is that I get a lot of medicine exp, since I auto-resolve everything. By the end, I have 170 skill in medicine, which I imagine is quite high compared to most casual campaigns. Thirdly, I don't agree that my army is mostly infantry. By 20:36 my army is already 70% cav. At 2:20:04 I've been fighting a lot in Battania where it's harder to recruit cavalry and my army is 40% cav. But by that time I already have a bunch of T6&T5 troops (13 fian champions, 16 banner knights, 12 elite cataphract, etc.). So I think my army is, for the most part, pretty stacked with elite troops and cavalry. Also, There are multiple instances where I break in and fight a siege army from the inside, against impossible looking odds. That is just the nature of auto-resolving sieges. The defender's bonus in sieges is quite absurdly high. Do you have an example timestamp to a fight where you think I should have lost more?
I though it was pretty good. I don't like Eye of the World except maybe the last 100 pages. So I'm fine with them changing things and I thought they fixed many of the pacing issues.
Thanks for all the support! It's really cool to see that so many people appreciate something so esoteric as Bannerlord speedruns.
Sure man, I subbed :)
@@MilkJugA_ Thanks a lot! I watched your Dota highlights video. It was pretty cool! Haven't played Dota in years tho.
Can you make a top 10 mods that are compatible with bannerlord 2 1.6.5
@@princerichardd.delacruz6488 I haven't played a lot with mods, so I don't know them. Sorry
@@LesserScholar oh damn, thanks
2:37:00 i find it weird that after you chop off the head of 100 people, some mercenaries will still come to fight without fear of being beheaded
A man receives a life without a choice, and dies without a choice, but it is upon him that his name lives forever.
@@jk-gn2fu AchillesPilled
brave heart.
Peepeepoopoo
@@Patrick-zr8tv my man
The things I learned from this video that I will now apply to my own game. Thanks! I'm not chasing a world record but I am about to make some coin!
"you can only play once a week"
Me:
After doing this you won't even want to play for a week
Lllllllllllllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeee😊🎉
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Aaaand i just had another crazy idea... declare peace so a lord stops running from you, catch up to them, then declare war again. Costs 200 influence, but might help with some of the faster ones and maybe save some time. There's a reason Warband had a minimum time for peace and war lol.
Just buy as many horses as you have men and you'll zoom about at 5.5
I’m using a similar dirty tactic for fiefs. Gather army, declare war, take fief, declare peace.
The tributes are disgustingly expensive but money isn’t really an issue for me.
@@Tentin.Quarantino Yeah at one point I was paying 270k per day to Vlandia to maintain peace while I beat down the western empire. I controlled everything except Vlandia at this point so money was irrelevant.
You conquered the world in 7 hours And you invaded my heart in two minutes... Good luck 💜⚡
That is a bit sudden, but thanks for the compliment!
@@LesserScholar lmao
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@@OMAR-fq6opمحد مرتاح لتعليقه
enemy lord: once you lose to this guy, you aint coming back.
One of the best runs I ever watched. Amazing job.
Though personally I like conquering not executing.. but learned a lot form Ur video. Amazing.
Sub and like we'll deserved
Glad to hear that!
Thanks a lot for the support. I'll try to come up with content worth subbing for.
I’m fairly new and I’ve been really struggling to find ways to start and develop a kingdom and this is by far the best accidental videos I’ve come across very entertaining and informative, I think I’m going to try the beheading method also seems a lot more fun than winning as a vassal
Very helpful guide. I can definitely go much faster in my game after watching this. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the kind words :)
Damn, that was an unfortunate start. Other than that, you were super slick!
My playthroughs last forever cause at the start of the game I just Solo Looters and Bandits to power level my combat abilities, then I focus on breaking the game with smithing (to get rich quick), before I start hiring recruits so I can make them into archers. My army composition usually looks like this; 60% Archers, 25% Infantry, 15% Cavalry (usually horse archers). I also like to take part in all my battles, so most of my game is spent in battles and commanding my army (or defending my Castles).
Same, I like to usually play at my own pace and enjoyment, as a way to chill out over how fast I can take over calradia. Everyone bought the game though, plays it how they find amusement or enjoyment out of it.
Though most bannerlord videos and playthroughs on RUclips seem to be focused on speed runs.
Gets married, Immediately goes ahead and takes all his stuff, classic
Takes me 6 hours to get 1 castle bro, youre a legend man.
Derthert will do anything to give me as few fiefs as possible even when my relationship with him is 100, after like 5 years of working for Vlandia I had 4 castles
As a vlandia vassal I had one town and 3 castles in less than a year of service
Bannerlord ia bugged i think because i was a lord for not so long and they gave me liks 4 castles ans 3 towns for no reason.
@@Verdun16 i had derthert vote for me to get a whole city and neither me or him were there. Derthert is clutch as fuck
@@Saltywengiellthey tend to favor vassals that have no titles. But they do seem to be quite generous at times. I got a town and a castle almost as soon as i joined an empire
He got to clan tier 4 so fast cause of the 300 trade. If you acquire 300 trade it buffs everything that gives you renown like crazy.
Your welcome 🙌
I learned alot just in the first 2 hours (especially trading smithing) . I usually go to warrior way by also fighting alot by myself (no hurry for my gameplan;) ) but man im impressed usually didnt spend even one point in trding and smithing and dont even know why i didnt tryed it out. Thx for that
Thanks for watching!
I can pick a lot more skills in social/intelligence since I don't need to fight myself.
Yes, if you are playing 1.7.0 then smithing is a lot harder than it is in this run. It can still make money, but not as much and it's harder to get good parts.
@@realitycheck908 I was sad when my sword that normally got me 60-70k only got me 25k 😭
@@realitycheck908 my guy im still pumping out two handed swords. Literally only took 30 mins or less to grind smithing up just enough to where i can sell swords for 50k at any city.(average amount a city/trader has) Got millions and I'm chillin. Once you find that part combo that sells for high you're chillin
@@SloppyCanada I make 2 handed polearms (long glaive) and sell them for 23k each. It requires a wood 2 fine steel and 2 steel. What's ur recipe for the 50k sword?
I love how he started not much intro and i love how he explains every detail and that deserves a subscribe😊please more...i enjoyed it
well done mate ! i never ever got to the point of world domination the best i did sofar is conquering Vlandia and like 1/3 of battania :) anyways great video and good job :)
Thanks for watching! Conquering too much can get a bit boring after a while. Even in these runs where everything goes pretty quick, the middle part is a bit tough. Near the end when you are almost done it gets more exiting again.
So what is basically happening in the run:
"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to inherit his castle and city."
god that relations loss drum indicator is driving me nuts
How are you getting these expenisve swords and other items???? Didnt saw you buy it
At 10:24
meanwhile i spent 6 hours to level smithing alone 😂 what a madman
Around 52:11, i think i'd try to bait the 600 army near the 900 army. Siegers never break a siege to chase you, but they count as friendly troops if a battle starts close enough to the siege camp. If you manage it, you can then negotiate with your allies and buy all the nobles, then execute them. (ah, i see you got it after a while)
As for how: check an allied troop for prisoners. If any of the prisoners show as being wounded, they are lords. Regular troops that get captured were wounded by default, so when you see "cavalry: 54 + 2w" you know they have two lords captured. You can see it even from a distance by using the alt key to see more info on allied troops. Then go in, make an offer and buy the prisoners. For me they always charge 1 coin for any amount of prisoners, but i hear 1.6.5 fixed that.
BUT you have to be fast. As soon as a noble captures another, they beeline for the nearest city and put it there. Calling the winner to your army works if they're very close, but generally you have to catch them before they reach the jail.
Another trick i'll advice is to use other clan members as recruiters. Take all troops from one of them, leaving only 10 or so so they wont die to looters, and dismiss them from the army. They'll go back to recruiting, leaving you free to do other stuff.
I'd also advise keeping a few prisoners, like 5 or so, because its free recruiting.
Let's see what else... Leave a weak garrison at a border castle, because enemies will ALWAYS go siege it. I think you ended up doing it with Vlandia, but i'm not sure if it was on purpose.
If i might ask though, why not kill the mercs? You'll have to fight them over and over as they switch from one kingdom to the next. I get that they'll die if they stay to the end, but at least when the opportunity presents itself you might as well. Costs half a second, and has a good chance of saving an allied army or keeping a village from being raided so you can recruit from it. Even if they're neutral, its more parties taking up recruits.
Final idea before i go to sleep:
Stick to a kingdom all the way through as a vassal. Then give up all your fiefs so you can get voted and always have the city nearest to the warzone, because that's where your allies will deposit all the nobles they capture. This way you might be able to get a bunch of NPCs to do your job for you, but i have little idea if it would work other than "it kinda worked for me by accident a couple of times".
Another risky move would be to leave a city with a small garrison and close-ish to the front but not as the first line. The enemy comes to siege it, your allies break the siege and immediately deposit all the enemies in your dungeon. I've done this by accident when my kingdom was at war on multiple fronts and it works pretty well... until the enemy actually took the city, but by then i had already gotten like 8-10 heads without having to fight for any of them.
Wow! I'm honored that you took the time to write such a detailed reply. I won't respond to everything, but I'll take the suggestions into consideration.
I'm sure there are a lot of things that can be done faster, but it'll take some time to identify+verify+practice the fastest strategies.
>> when you see "cavalry: 54 + 2w" you know they have two lords captured
I didn't know that. That's really neat, thanks!
>> If i might ask though, why not kill the mercs? You'll have to fight them over and over as they switch from one kingdom to the next.
>>I get that they'll die if they stay to the end, but at least when the opportunity presents itself you might as well.
>>Costs half a second, and has a good chance of saving an allied army or keeping a village from being raided so you can recruit from it.
>>Even if they're neutral, its more parties taking up recruits.
If I kill a merc lord, another one will spawn and take their clan party slot. So keeping them as prisoners actually minimizes the merc parties on the map, I think.
>> Stick to a kingdom all the way through as a vassal. Then give up all your fiefs so you can get voted and always have the city nearest to the
>>warzone, because that's where your allies will deposit all the nobles they capture. This way you might be able to get a bunch of NPCs to do
>>your job for you, but i have little idea if it would work other than "it kinda worked for me by accident a couple of times".
I'm not sure I fully understand how this would work. Sounds like it could be good, but I'm just unsure. My strategies for farming prisoners as a vassal are underdeveloped at the moment.
What I can say though, is that I need to make my own kingdom pretty early so that I can farm enough influence to pass all the policies I want and 500 for the first vassal. All of this should be done before the first inheritance. In this particular run the inheritance was delayed by like 45mins so I had plenty of influence, but I'm not sure that is always the case.
>>Another risky move would be to leave a city with a small garrison and close-ish to the front but not as the first line. The enemy comes to siege it,
>>your allies break the siege and immediately deposit all the enemies in your dungeon. I've done this by accident when my kingdom was at war
>>on multiple fronts and it works pretty well... until the enemy actually took the city, but by then i had already gotten like 8-10 heads without
>>having to fight for any of them.
Again, sounds like it could be good, but I'm unsure since it sounds like another thing were you'd need to stay as a vassal for longer.
To illustrate my point of an ungarrisoned castle: around 2:50:00 you accidentally leave only like 4 dudes in Veron Castle and they immediately go for a siege. That's a great bait, since even small lords will go for the siege. And once they start building the siege camp they'll be disorganized if they try breaking the siege.
And yeah, i've been giving this sort of strategy some thought because it's very similar to a "autoresolve-only world domination" challenge i've been doing. Can't do sieges with autoresolve, so eliminating all the nobles is the way to go.
Which reminds me: autoresolve gives less weight than it should to elite troops. So you can actually use bandits and militia to a decent extent, or at least dump them in a castle somewhere. This actually makes breaking a village raid pretty good, since you get some 5-10 militia for free.
Another trick i'd never use in a normal playthrough but might be good on a speedrun would be to leave wounded troops in a garrison. Sometimes you're walking around with like 90 troops and 130 wounded. That's when you should consider putting the wounded ones at a castle (when you transfer units away the game always sends the wounded ones first) and picking fresh ones. The downside is not leveling your medicine, but it should speed things up quite a bit.
You should beat my time. Then I'll have to adopt your strats :)
18:30 that was so clean
This is cool. Some skills are a bitch to farm, I had no idea you could do this with trade.
LETSGOO This 6:30 hours will be crazy
Just found this in my recommended def dropping sub
Thanks! It really helps me
I think YOUR relations are decreasing in Vassalage a little bit
Good video, you put a lot of work in it ;)
Thanks!
"Estimated time will be 9 hours. " this is 6 hour speedrun
"Maybe some day eventually 7 hours" lmao
Great run, learnt so many new things. A lot of the flashy streamers dont get into the detail of the game. Few things ive noted if anyone can clarify:
* you have your parties all the lower tier units. Is there better pay off giving higher tier?
* can you sign mercenary contracts once you become king?
* noticed you voted for a city even though the outcome % was lower. One event you had 1-2% lower and still got it.
* how does the inheritance work? One plan must have a castle in the dejure or the oriignal kingdom?
* whats the sweet spot for speed of your party?
* how do you decide which items to keep?
Hey man great video! I was actually very surprised it got only ~18k views. I initially though its due to save-reload, but I now think that its just too long. I watched at least 3 hours of it but its repetitive. My suggestion is to keep this of course, but make also a montage of important parts, and then link this video as a proof to that one. 20 min video could cover all the important milestones, and it would be so much fun to watch, and the most important aspect will be that you have linked the full video as a reference.
Just a friendly suggestion, Im not a youtuber, and have no idea how things actually work here, but great job! Hope you post more
(Btw I understand if you didnt do this for a video, but its really very nice, so just a little work of editing, would help a lot more people enjoy your achievement)
Thanks!
18k views is amazing for me. It's like 3x my previous best performing video. I'll definitely try doing more highlight videos in the future. I'm kind of new to this YT thing myself, so I'll have to try out different strategies.
@@LesserScholar You conquered all in less than 7 hours. Do you know how long it took me and probably many other people?... Your video deserves a LOT more views!
Regardless, great job and keep it up. If you have some time and give a "highlight"/optimized length video a try, I would definitely dive in to watch
@@drgeorgej5562 You are too kind, I'm kind of humbled.
I'm still having fun playing Bannerlord so the channel is not going anywhere :)
@@LesserScholar Sounds good! :)
Subbed, and will be looking out for the videos! Especially for the ones you edit a bit
Wow, you've played for 7 hours and you've finished the game! It's unbelievable.
Enjoyed this. Keep it up.
How did he get everything after executing that lord
ruclips.net/video/yyz7Xx2iGRY/видео.html
40:43 he is doing everything too fast and i play on ps4 so it is a bit different...
What is he doing here??? Buying stuff from karawans then sell it in town or what??? It is too fast i cant understand what is going on
my new favorite movie
Seanchan gonna clean up lol. You can’t stop the Return!
Great video. I noticed that your campaign map is extremely smooth. Any tips you could share? I get micro stutters when moving around / zooming in and out / entering towns.. but in battle with 800 troops the game runs like butter.. campaign map stutters is my only flaw with performance. Many thanks !
I haven't really tweaked anything about performance, so I'm not sure I can help.
It could be that I have the game installed on a fast M.2 SSD.
@@LesserScholar thanks for the reply. I have my game on a ssd no m2 here yet. Appreciate the content!! We need more bannerlord updates!!!
Next best bannerlord channel. Keep it up buddy
Wow, thanks!
@@LesserScholar is there crusader king 3 speedrun?
@@HybridCrimson I haven't played much ck3 but this is pretty cool video ruclips.net/video/TgridFq_JyM/видео.html
Crazy run man, I have finals coming up and somehow i havent noticed I watched almost 4 hours of it 💀
Lool same here
Finals like final tests?
@@Lrzmsibelts yep
@@Lrzmsibeltsyeah
wow, speedruns hypnotize me and this was awesome (edit: quick question why trade skill 300? as far as i remember it gives the ability to buy castles and cities but you did not use it did you? )
Thanks! I use trade 300 to guarantee I inherit the fallen kingdoms, e.g. at 2:58:08 3:48:14 4:04:15
@@LesserScholar Please explain. I've watched, but I still don't understand how they gave them to you. I've tried that and they give them to minor factions that don't even have fiefs instead of giving them to me, so I'm left killing everyone on the map who isn't in my immediate family. Its exhausting.
@@keithreed5952 The basic version of rules of inheritance is as follows: Geographically closest clan inherits; Player's own clan cannot inherit; If inheriting clan is a vassal, their liege inherits instead.
As far as I understand landless minor clans should not be able to inherit, but rebels clans with land can.
If you have a save file where landless clan inherits I would be interested to see that.
@@LesserScholar Ok, correction...it was a landless minor rebel clan that I hadn't exterminated. They were still at war wtih the eliminated kingdom. It was just my clan and two landless minor rebel clans (living in my cities) and I didn't inherit anything. One point of clarification..."Geographically closest clan inherits"...closest to what? The main city of the eliminated Kingdom or to their Kingdom as a whole? Players own clan cannot inherit...then how do you get them? This helps a ton. Thank you so much. I've spent hundreds of hours with my current playthrough and it has been frustrating...I've quit multiple times and played other games.
I haven't watched the entire play through, but are you "buying" captured Lords to execute from other Kingdoms? I love that mechanic. After a large, failed siege, you can scoop up half a dozen easy and then declare war on the wounded party you just purchased them from and eliminate a dozen Lords in one blow. Great videos. Thank you!!
@@keithreed5952 Position of a clan is a weighted average of their settlements. So just imagine where the center of mass is located.
I create a vassal clan that inherits. So I trade castles until my vassal is close to the center of the dying enemy kingdom.
I sometimes buy enemy lords for executing, yes. I probably didn't do that often enough in this run.
I never comment, this came as a suggestion and I randomly clicked but, moiraine sedai? Nice one mate :)
She's just chilling and traveling around the world.
There seems to be quite a few Forsaken in this world. I'm not sure what's going on with that, but looks like she has it under control.
thanks bro, I learned new stuff :>
Executed everyone and said "that's pretty good." Damn, you cold bro
It is a game still
Bring out the guillotines :) It's revolution time!
Good job man, I watched all video, also you teach me a lot :)
Awesome, thank you!
Sorry for the potentially dumb question, but why do you execute lords? To weaken the enemy and not have them respawn? I usually avoid relation losses out of personal preference.
When all the lords of a kingdom are dead, their lands are given to a nearby kingdom/clan. In this run, I make sure everything is given to me. So I get all the fiefs by executing all enemy nobles.
@@LesserScholar How do you do it :D Everyone is just mad at me no free fiefs
@@TigeroL42 ruclips.net/video/yyz7Xx2iGRY/видео.html
@@LesserScholar how do you conquer the world, without executing everyone?
@@babyray5643 Get 300 trade, a lot of money and influence. Then you can do what I did here ruclips.net/video/MeQxTwYMObo/видео.html
Use influence and 300 trade to recruit a lot of noble clans for "free" (you pay them with fiefs you can get back with influence through voting)
nice run. learned a lot
Sedai Clan s friends:Elefheroi,aa,bb
Sedai Clan s enemies:All Calradia :D
There was a void inside me after watching it.
Elefheroi just got lucky. They'll get what they deserve next time :)
didnt realise this was advanced form of pac man
It's very advanced :) Instead of going chomp chomp, it goes bonk bonk and chop chop!
@Lesser Scholar, at 36:18, when you select 2 handed sword, your previous template automatically loaded with all the previously selected tiers/settings. But for me, it always loads with tier 1 parts. Is there a setting/mod to do this? i'm playing on campaign, v1.6.5
You can copy&paste smithing templates with Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. So every time I make changes to the template I save them with Ctrl+C.
@@LesserScholar thank you very much! and I really enjoyed and learned a lot from your speed run. many thanks and happy new year!
Relationship decreased voice is all over my head during the entire video and afterwards. CLING CLING CLING ! so annoying
Buddy you good you on some I don’t understand anything you said
@@FreakBob219 Wth are even talking about mate? Write in English please
@@nezihlevent1333what did you accomplished in this 2 years
@@MadMan16th Accomplish * at least I learnt to write. Not a caveman here
@@nezihlevent1333 learned* hahahah foo&
At 1:54:00 is true, you kill nobles and make people richer by leaving there goods on the floor
LOL, true
2:58:50 Didn't understand what he did to get all of Batania, can someone please explain?
Hey dude, ur a legend
Nice speed run! I noticed the difficulty was set to "Freebooter" which is the easiest difficulty setting (i.e. reduced damage to you and ally troops significantly).
Curious to see what if you ran it in the hardest difficulty mode, "Bannerlord" preset?
I was saying the same too
I'll do 'Bannerlord' difficulty run in the future. It'll make the early game fighting a bit tougher and lower movement speed sucks, but it shouldn't change much. I have some new strategies that make me think it's very possible to beat this run on harder difficulty.
Thanks for watching!
rome wasnt build in one day
this guy: hold my horse and bow
2:59:00 can u tell me how its work? It was suprise for me because u get 3 cities for free
The closest clan inherits all the fiefs, but the player can't inherit directly. So I make sure that my vassal is close to the center of the dying kingdom.
When my vassal inherits the fiefs, they come to me because I'm their king.
Great video!
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
Plz tell me how you gain the land after killing them off after I do it gets it to another faction
I want to know too!!!! I literally killed everyone in vlandia and then everyone in the northen Empire and now everyone on the Asserai but couldn't take them lands
Primero debes hacerte un reino @@HenriqueNz27__
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I’m 2 years late and this is still so cool
There is no way i sat here for this long watching this shzit on a monday
Does this trade-exploit still work?
I tried it as you did, exactly at Marunarth and didnt get as high numbers, we had exactly the same Social and Trade focus points.
I does still work, but the hardwood price in Marunath is kind of random. The more they pay the more xp you can gain. Also make sure you sell enough charcoal so that you can buy your hardwood back from the caravan for like 6 or 7 a piece.
@@LesserScholar Righto, I think I didnt do to well on the charcoal part. Just aimed for 125 skill to get the renown up fast with caravans.
Took longer time then yours but decent. Just wanted to create my own kingdom =)
This is some Game of Thrones goals right ere
I should pick my character name from GoT next time. Probably Cersei
@@LesserScholar Fitting one... Like how Tywin's early moves is getting rich then viciously overpower enemies killing them all like Cersei
i learned a lot thanks
Thanks for watching!
Holy shit this was impressive
Moiraine Sedai, a man of culture I see.
I'm stuck in book 6 so I don't know if I qualify as a fan yet. But I'm trying to milk some cultural relevancy from the Amazon show.
Wow, it is the first speedrun, that I see in youtbe. (I meen Mount and blade banerlord speedrun)
Moraine Sedai?! I also love the wheel of time
PERFECT BRUH YOU SAMSHED IT
I have around 20 hours and just got my first castle. Meanwhile there is this guy concerning the whole world in 6 hours.
Love the character name choice. wheel of time is my favourite book series. I always name my characters after the forsaken.
That is so awesome. I had to do a double take when I saw his character name choice. Hands down my all time favorite book series. Did you know that there is a group working on The Wheel of Time mod for this game? You can play as the forsaken. They also have the sedai and ashaman troops with the One Power throwing spells.
The mod is on Nexus.
@@EspeoTheRedKnight i had absolutely no idea! ill be checking that out in about 10 seconds here XD much appreciated
You are the best player♥️
Thanks
Is it the version that you're playing that allows you to execute lords in the prisoners screen? In the update I'm on I can't. It tells me I can't execute because I'm still in battle.
Can you do a video on how to get 300 trade fast
ruclips.net/video/nsOJ5ZlPSmQ/видео.html I've made one
Amazing stuff.
Thanks!
Long live the eternal flame of tarvalon. Now lead the army of the dragon to tarmongaidon.
How doe we play this banner lord game only on pc or can it be played on consoles like Xbox and ps5
I don't understand how anybody beat that game in 7 hours there's just no way.i have give u a HELL YA on that !!!
Is there a mod or something that I'm missing that everyone is using to start in the land of the faction they choose?
In the main menu when you start a new game, select 'sandbox' instead of campaign.
@@LesserScholar Thanks!
Did they nerf send troops since he dropped this video? Really informative and entertaining video but watching how you can conquer the game while auto resolving every battle puts me off from wanting to play it haha
Question for you. I watched your speed run and was inspired to play the game again, and imitate what you did. Did smithing, and got 300 trade.
Im now working as a mercenary to kill off lords. Problem is, when I execute them, they don’t actually die. Do you know why this is, or how to fix it?
Thanks for watching! Unfortunately I haven't had that issue ever myself so I don't know how to help. Sounds frustrating and I hope I never get it in a run
Enable death and birth.
- if not than the new feature of not allowing anymore executing when u execute him he goes back to his fief as a with 0 troops.
Late reply, but in 1.7.0 you need to have aging/death option on to kill nobles. They changed it so that all heroes are actually immortal if you have that option disabled.
is there any way to turn the relationship decreased notification off?
I would have to mod the game to remove it, and modifying the game is kind of against the spirit of speedrunning. I think in future I'll have the game sound be so low that the sound won't be distracting.
Lord/Lady: "i am at your mercy"
0.5 sec later...
Can i get the resolusi cause when i was playing this game, my game always crash
was working on a campaign version of this and got to my last sturgian noble to find out it just gives all the castles etc to the next kingdom in line, kind of a pain
Kingdom inheritance is predictable and you can manipulate it so that you get everything every time ruclips.net/video/yyz7Xx2iGRY/видео.html
I can't figure out why are you so incredibly successful in 'sending troops' (auto resolve). When I do that I lose so many soldiers.
Difficulty settings, cavalry comp and fighting mostly lower tier enemies. I have max difficulty runs on my channel as well if you'd like to see the difference. Even on max difficulty I only use send troops, but I have to be a bit more careful in the beginning.
@@LesserScholarwhat composition you use? I wanna win batlles auto. Also how do you inherit kingdom by killing nobles ?
How were you gaining so much reputation with your own villages to recruit so many troops?
I get more recruitment slots from easy difficulty settings and leadership 25 perk.
@@LesserScholar Thank you, I love bannerlord but I feel like I'm missing a lot of small details that make it less extra hard on higher difficulties
wow this is intens! i really need to upgrade my pc... this game looks fun!
If you have an older pc, you could try out the prequel, Warband. It has worse combat and graphics, but it's more balanced and has more mechanics & stuff to do.
@@LesserScholar thanks for the tip! love the vids :)
@@LesserScholar The combat being perceived as worse is very subjective. Most mp-focused people prefer Warband's combat and many still play it to this day. Bannerlord is undeniably prettier though and the exploits are a lot of fun. They are the reason I found this channel and I am glad I did.
@@jedrzejlipowski173 Fair point. I never got into Warband mp, but I've heard a lot of good things about it.
Warband combat has higher skill ceiling so it's better for competition.
But I think Bannerlord has better game feel. Hits feel satisfying, the way horses move is smoother, etc.
When does he buy settlements? ive made it to level 300 trade but finding it difficult to find what is best for buying the settlements.
I use trade 300 to guarantee I inherit the fallen kingdoms, e.g. at 2:58:08 3:48:14 4:04:15
I don't know any way to get enough money to buy all the settlements in 6 hours.
Hey guys, when I killed all Vladians Nobles, Battanians got the credits, I mean, after killing the last noble, the kingdom went to Battanians, why would is that? I'm already a king, why it wasnt transfered to me?
I made this video to explain the inheritance: ruclips.net/video/yyz7Xx2iGRY/видео.html
If you get unexpected results after trying to follow the rules, make sure your game doesn't have too many landless clans, as explained in the last chapter of the video.
@@LesserScholar Finally I got it! Thanks mate! Your content is just amazing, thanks for sharing! See ya! :D
@@G4MES_Theory great! Thanks for watching!
Estimated, 9 hrs hoped for 7 hrs, beat all expectations damn
I guess I'm pessimistic or really bad at estimating. Or both :)
what trait
got you the weapons that you sold for 6000?
The executioner had more action time than you with all the battle skipping lol
LONG LIVE THE KING
How're you not losing far more men when you send troops, from what i can see you're mostly doing infantry in your army
Firstly the game difficulty has an effect on auto-resolve battles. It's not drastic enough that you can win fights where the balance of power meter is heavily against you, but it definitely helps reduce casualties a lot.
Second reason I can think of is that I get a lot of medicine exp, since I auto-resolve everything. By the end, I have 170 skill in medicine, which I imagine is quite high compared to most casual campaigns.
Thirdly, I don't agree that my army is mostly infantry. By 20:36 my army is already 70% cav. At 2:20:04 I've been fighting a lot in Battania where it's harder to recruit cavalry and my army is 40% cav. But by that time I already have a bunch of T6&T5 troops (13 fian champions, 16 banner knights, 12 elite cataphract, etc.). So I think my army is, for the most part, pretty stacked with elite troops and cavalry.
Also, There are multiple instances where I break in and fight a siege army from the inside, against impossible looking odds. That is just the nature of auto-resolving sieges. The defender's bonus in sieges is quite absurdly high.
Do you have an example timestamp to a fight where you think I should have lost more?
@@LesserScholar My experience of auto fights hasn't been kind, your experience has evidently shown you when you can and can't do it
Nice work my guy
how do u get mor than 1k wood in the shop, i get max 100
What are the difficulty settings?
What did you think of The Wheel of Time TV series? Personally I hated it. They changed way too much for my taste.
I though it was pretty good. I don't like Eye of the World except maybe the last 100 pages. So I'm fine with them changing things and I thought they fixed many of the pacing issues.
Why not get the perk that makes you donate any gear you leave behind to your troops giving them exp