Ultimate Mount & Blade: Warband Guide! Steps to Conquer the World! Timestamps in The Description
Ultimate Mount and Blade: Warband Guide on how to create your character, manage your troops, build and decide where to start your kingdom, tips and tricks and everything in between. LONG video, but worth the watch!
Topic Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro;
2:20 - Best Character Build & How to Level Up Your Character;
11:50 - Skills Discussion;
42:16 - Companions & Stable Parties;
47:02 - How to Level Up Companions;
1:00:16 - Best Troops and Troop Tree Discussions;
1:34:30 - Morale & Party Size;
1:39:40 - Damage Types & Best Weapons;
1:52:34 - How to Make Money;
1:58:40 - Becoming a Vassal;
2:02:07 - Claimant Quests;
2:06:49 - Making Your Own Faction;
2:12:26 - How to Get Vassals and Lord Personalities Explained;
2:20:38 - Fief Management;
2:27:56 - Early, Mid and Late Game: What to do;
2:34:05 - Battle Tactics, Strategies & Sieges;
2:46:07 - Difficulty Settings.
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Topic Time Stamps: 0:00 - Intro; 2:20 - Best Character Build & How to Level Up Your Character; 11:50 - Skills Discussion; 42:16 - Companions & Stable Parties; 47:02 - How to Level Up Companions; 1:00:16 - Best Troops and Troop Tree Discussions; 1:34:30 - Morale & Party Size; 1:39:40 - Damage Types & Best Weapons; 1:52:34 - How to Make Money; 1:58:40 - Becoming a Vassal; 2:02:07 - Claimant Quests; 2:06:49 - Making Your Own Faction; 2:12:26 - How to Get Vassals and Lord Personalities Explained; 2:20:38 - Fief Management; 2:27:56 - Early, Mid and Late Game: What to do; 2:34:05 - Battle Tactics, Strategies & Sieges; 2:46:07 - Difficulty Settings.
Thanks so much for this table of contents. It really makes the video usable do to its length
How do you attack a castle or city if ypu are not affiliated with another faction. I cant figure out how to attack a city or castle
@@drespeaks8607 Well, first you need to be hostile with the faction. You attack one of their lords, and get into negative relations. Then you can attack any castle/city you want.
Great video! Super informative and you did great explaining everything. Quick question: Klethi and Artimenner don't get along. You stated in the vid they did, am I doing something wrong?
On making money to start with 1. Get taxes quest, 2. Keep it and buy a productive enterprise e.g. brewery in Shirin (grain dirt cheap around there) 3. No time limit to repay
Skyrim: I can hold a lot of pots and pans in my pockets! M&B: Hold my horse.
Horses*
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She Belongs To The Streets definitely *Horses because everyone carries 6
small tip for farming tournaments, once you get 2 kills you can "give up" the round and instantly join the 2nd round, makes it much faster
Wait. Is this a real thing?? Do you still get the bet Denars at the end??
@@Jadisage yes, when you just "give" up the round game takes it as a round simply finishing, not your defeat so if you meet the requirements to join next round it just counts as a win. it's not good to skip it if you want to be day-efficient as you will miss out on plenty of skills upgrading and maybe even some levels but imo it's better than just sit around for 3 hours doing tournaments
@@smejkal1846 bro I'm trying this when I play next. I level the most during sieges anyways. Heavy Morningstar by the ladder. You know. Lol
Smejkal Early game, doing tournaments is the best way for money and level up!
THANK YOU. The tournament grind was really, really getting to me!
havent won a single module of mount and blade, always get demoralized easily and start a new game
Just learn how to accept defeat. Accept that soldiers will die. Afterwards you will be fine. Defeat is not the end. It is simply a setback.
I dont give up i play till the very end
What helps me when that happens is instead of starting over completely just shut it off for a few days and take a break.
I was the same way during my first 3 playthroughs. Right now I only attack factions who are at war with one or two other factions. Makes things alot easier.
You get to keep your experience if you get captured in battle. I often size up the opponent and as soon as I am released, if there are only a few of them, I fight them and take back my stuff - makes you feel good!
Buy silk from Rivacheg, sell in Suno for 2-3 times as much. Spice from Tulga to most other places. Salt is also big on profit. Once you work out a circular route, you can raise finances pretty quickly. Plus you take prisoners along the way and can enter tournaments.
yeah I had a note pad of all the places to buy cheap and sell high, and I just always bought and sold stuff along my adventures to do quests and missions, it really does begin to stack up, it made me so rich that I could easily afford the best businesses and made that transition into late game a breeze, not sure it would have been as good without trading.
@@LovingTinha And now I'd like to see those notes =(
@@LovingTinha lemme see those notes man ;)
@@TheZammyboss you know I would but my PC died couple weeks back and it was on my desktop and never thought to back it up or save it anywhere else, so they are gone for good. Surely someone else out there has done a similar thing. Or you just got to figure it out. Just take notes on all the places, where to buy cheap and where they pay you best. And in no time you will be a professional trader.
@@LovingTinha oh I see how it is. You just don't want to give away your trade secrets.
Maybe the true best mounted archers are the friends we made along.
damn this is an absolute diamond in the rough! u have been playing mount and blade for years 700 hours on steam and i have learned so much just from this one video. thank you man this is actual gold.
daman2911 I’ll second that. This is the best and most thorough warband guide I’ve ever found
I have 1800 hours on steam and I used to play before it on CD ages ago. And I learned a lot here too. Disagreed with some of his stuff but most of it was on point
@@georgerafa5041 what were some of the things you disagreed with I’m just curious because I’m new? yes I know that this comment was 10 months ago
@@mowermen1762 believe me I wonder too, just out of curiosity ofcourse
@@jojojoji7521 me too :D
2 years later and I’m using this guide, it’s the perfect guide thank you
Same
Hello. Do you know any mod for looting all? I'm used to Bannerlord and going back to this UI is tedious af.
@@goku445that’s funny because the console version of Warband has a loot all option. But is even more tedious to sell prisoners with, if you have a big army lol
" you cant do it *swadian knights* I have the high ground!" "You underestimate my power!"
"Dont try it"
“AAAAAHHHHHH!!”
@@TheBarleyBug ap
You were supposed to *destroy* the Sarranids, not *join* them!!!
No hill anti-cav strategy: They're going to go for your infantry 99% of the time. Ball your infantry up tight as possible, spam that "infantry, stand closer" command. The cavalry riders will squeeze in and get in each other's way. When they hit your infantry that train will come to a full stop. Tell your infantry to charge and they will move out around the sides of the cavalry, trapping them and pulling them down. Archers, open fire! Cavalry is toast.
sucks that they mindlessly charge though ;/
Frosty just command them to hold position first...
@@DataSicEvolved I do, but the cavalry can sometimes do quite a bit of damage still
@@CaesarsLegion1 Really depends on how heavy the cavalry is. I've found swadian knights are pretty hard to stop, but even a slight hill can do the trick with a tight infantry formation. But a decently large mass of men will also do the trick. Knights can charge through one rank of infantry like it's not even there and barely slows down at the second rank. But a third rank stops them cold, in the middle of all those men, getting poked and slashed from all sides.
"A Rhodok spear-wall is designed to stop a Swadian charge in its tracks, and it usually does." -Lezalit
1. To prevent enemies from taking your fiefs the only thing that matters is the amount of troops in your garrison. Quality of troop doesn't matter. Simply put 200-300 recruits in your garrison and the enemy AI will most likely never attempt to siege it. 2. Easy way to win most offensive sieges in the game is get full army of Vaegir marksman , or Rhodok sharpshooter, and tell them to Hold position in front of the castle. Just let them shoot with their arrows. When they run out, hit Tab to retreat, which costs you no penalty. You can repeat this until their entire garrison is depleted and easily win the battle. Also a good idea to set your medic to run somewhere safe during this to minimize causalities. When their archers are dead, you can stand on the ladder and just get constant easy headshots, the AI will never leave their castle and just stand there. On higher difficulty settings (Normal damage) its almost worthless to even bother with infantry during sieges because enemy arrows do so much damage. The ranged method is just way better and safer. my top 2 tips i dont think were mentioned in this vid, thanks!
Really here I am giving em top tier
If your number 1 is right, I'm about to make bank!
Thank you so much bro
true just weak them until defeat
Number 1 is literally 'Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak ' lol
For a game with as many fans as warband, there is a surprisingly little amount of theory crafting vids on it. This is probably the best resource for warband native. Thanks for compiling all the information
Idk why i kept getting addicted to this game. Sometimes I want to stop playing but got distracted by battles, quests or unexpected events. Such a great game
Indeed. It definetly has that one more turn, one more battle effect like other games do. If you want something similar but set in space, check out Starsector.
just got married and successfully sieged my first castle for the Nordly cause. Game is picking up a lot now haha Edit: Was not expecting a wedding cutscene at all. Finally got this grumbling father to give me his blessing. Hint - I’m planning on betraying the Nords. King Ragnar has a nasty habit of keeping multiple fiefs for himself. Just captured a castle for him after countless battles for the kingdom and good rep and he didn’t give it to me. ;)
I named my Character Ragnar on the first fucking playthrough without knowing that there is actually a Character in Game with this name.. now i have to kill him to be the only ragnar that exists
you had me in the first half of the sentence, not gonna lie
In one game Ragnar gave me like 10 fiefs because I was friendly with him and then he refused to give me a city I captured single handedly because he wanted it for himself. So I said nah fam and took like, a quarter of his kingdom with the snap of my fingers.
Last time I did a playthrough for the Nords, King Ragnar and I were the only lords in the kingdom. He just kept indicting other lords and throwing fiefs at me left and right. Sadly, this have me no chance to rebel.
Every AI king does that. They'll keep 5-6 scattered fiefs at random and then suddenly give 4-5 in a row to their martials or other favorite vassals (so if you want territories, do a ton of quests for the king). And when they do give territories to you as a vassal, your land will be scattered so far apart that you don't have a prayer of ever defending it all. That's one thing I seriously hope will be fixed in the final build of Bannerlord. It's probably the single biggest reason why many players would rather BE the king than serve the king. Warband really needed a better tactical user interface and NPC AI. But it's encouraging to see that the latest builds of Bannerlord have tried to fix the old AI problems, so maybe they'll be able to address this at last.
I do things almost entirely different than you, but that is that makes M&B great, there is a lot of different ways to play the game.
Indeed!
I used my swadian character to build myself up until I essentially was harlouse best man and could roughly hold 250-300 men in my party, I held about four cities and too many castle's to count as well as villages. I wanted my own knightly kingdom so once I essentially was the best vassal around I left the faction and took my fiefs. We had all the fiefs the green grass touched and I named it the German empire. I kept working at it and only accepted swadian and rhodok lords into my kingdom then made piece. There's no more swadia but rather the German empire and we hold the main lands, the nords are nagging at us but due to the fact we hold completely knights we dominated them mad hard. We didn't take everything they had as what I had in mind was world piece and to build up an army in the mean time so if they tried to attack we can crush them. I'm on day 2000 or so and it's been hard to maintain but it's working.
German Empire for 1000 year.
How did you get your army to 250-300men
@@Lux-_-115 A LOT OF MERCENARY WORK AND GRINDING TOURNAMENTS.
This may be a only useful for me but the chest with the katana is a useful place to store items it has about 50 slots and never disappears i like to keep extra armour in case i get rekt lol
Good plan. Forgot about it.
Extra armor doesnt do shit....
Keep expensive items that u can sell there. Velvets and expensive stuff, in case shit hits the fan and u need money
Where is the chest?
@@Shukovsky dont need it...
2h speaking about the game, calmly without rush thats what we want! Thank you for that and to share your experience with us!
3h
I’ve just started playing this game like a couple days ago and this appeared in my feed (thank you FBI agent) and helped me so much
Its called an algorithm..
@@victorbell6893 its called a joke...
And if it was a physical person, youre not cool enough for it to be law enforcement, its just some telemarketer from India
As a complete newbie to the M&B franchise, thanks so much for this! It seriously has helped me understand the game better than any other resource I could find online. Been constantly rewatching parts of this and it's been invaluable :)
For real, the best vid ive seen yet
Just bought this game on PlayStation for $6 and I’ve been playing it non stop 😂
Small Improvement: pick Revenge as reason for adventuring over Loss, because Surgery (et al) is better than Ironflesh according to this guide.
Fair enough. Thank you :D
just find Jeremus and you won't need that surgery
@@spatch7414 if the leader specializes in surgery it adds to the party surgeon. So you can have an even higher surgery skill
@@floridamancode_e2673 Really, it stacks? Knew about Trainer skill stacking, but thought other party skils don't stack. Is it just surgery or others too?
@@tlotredits surgery doesn't stack but if the leader gets over a certain amount he can grant bonuses to the party memeber with the same skill.
Best guide I’ve seen for this game. Good job.
Good guide, though I hope you don't mind if I add in a few points: You mentioned two ways to start your own faction but there is a third option available to female characters: marry into a faction and convince your husband to join you in rebellion. This is similar to a normal rebellion, except that you instead of waiting for the king to refuse you a fief you're trying to convince a lord to turn traitor which is a different set of difficulties. The upside is that in addition to taking your current holdings with you like a normal rebellion, you're also taking a lord with you to help you out. The wiki also mentions a fourth one but I've never tried it so I don't know if it works as advertised: start a claimant's quest, but convince the claimant to abandon the rebellion before completing it. This allegedly starts you as a new faction with everything you conquered in the claimant's name. Also, on starting locations I think it's worth mentioning that Tulga can be a very frustrating place to start for a new player, especially if you plan to run the Merchant's quest right away. Steppe bandits roam that area and will start harassing you pretty quickly if you stick around, and they're fast enough to catch a starting player and their handful of recruits quite easily. So unless one is comfortable soloing mounted archers with starting gear + stats (in which case one is probably beyond needing a guide like this) it's best to avoid starting there.
Thank you for the good pointers :D
Me: wondering how to defeat swadian knight, the most powerful and broken mounted army in this game Flavian: you can't Him: i'm sorry Flavian but it's very simple Me: he is got to be kidding me Him: you just post your soldiers on a hill and let them come to you Me: i need to use my brain more
except finding hills is boring, the only way to destroy a swadian charge is with tenfold more swadian knights in your army. as a matter of fact, there is no other unit you should have in the field other than the swadian knight. literally any other unit ever in warband outside of a siege is less efficient then a swadian knight, as most of the landscape of calradia is flatland, and is easy to lure enemies to flatlands anyway, much easier then luring them into mountain landscapes... there are only two units that matter in warband, and thats unfortunately sad: the swadian knight and the rhodok sharpshooter. you DO. NOT. NEED any other unit ever, only these two and their inbetweeners.
Secret if you put your troops at map border you can cheese the AI and they will dismount
@@dfghj241 That is boring though, playing Swadia had no satisfaction of using any tactics, not to mention those butter eating bastards are hard and expensive to train. Most cost effective units that I found to be are Rhodok Sergeants and Sharpshooters. Tell your sergeants to stand closer, wait for them to easily absorb the silly Swadian charge, while the Sharpshooters rain murder down from a higher position, and your Sergeants cut swadian knights like butter. Majority of Swadian troops that make up the AI armies are lightly armoured, they won't hold any fiefs for long.
@@BalthazarB2 against the AI on medium difficulty the Sargent's would have no issue. But you will get casualties either way. On hard difficulty things get so weirld I just don't see how is it possible to win any battle with no top tier units. Of which you will have few off because footsoldiers will keep dying. Also I've tried horsefucker Lancers. They do very well against anything without horses and they cost 2/3 the butter Bois. Provided you have 150 of them of course. I don't see anything beating sharpies though. And I don't see any point ever fighting in hills either. Mount e Blade is not a highly strategical game at all. Let's hope bannerlors fixes this. They need to lower the gap between low tier and high tier units by alot before they get regularly used by the player like the AI does. Also the beauty of swadians troops is that you defend sieges on the field directly instead on the walls. 1000 men are sieging dhirim? Get the 100 knights and end this joke easy.
@@dfghj241 No point in fighting in hills? Man, have you ever fought against cavalry? Hills are absolute disaster for them, and nobody takes a hill from a Rhodok Sharpshooter.
I planned to watch some of the topics, ended up watching the whole Video... Helped me as much as the PoP tutorial one, (a lot) :) Made a spreadsheet for my future self if I play the game on a later date :) Thank you!
I cannot thank you enough for this video dude. I had no clue how to even approach the game, so this has helped immensely. You have my gratitude.
Great tutorial for a game it is much needed for. Voice was tolerable for the full two and a half hours, all points made were concise and articulated perfectly. Thanks a ton.
Excellent guide! Seriously, one of the best game guides I have ever seen. I took notes. Now, off to play with my new knowledge by my side! I will also check out the rest of your channel. Specifically, if you've posted any M&B playthroughs, I will definitely check them out.
Thank you for how you broke this up into chapters. Makes it so easy to get the info you need. Thanks again.
Thank you for making this video, it's a great help. You have a great personality, there's not a lot of people who could keep a topic so interesting for almost 3 hours. Cheers.
you are the friggin man. this is the most comprehensive game guide ive ever seen!
New to Mount and Blade as of earlier this week. Been looking up tips and tricks to figure out how the game works, but this is nice to come across. Especially with the pinned comment with time stamps in it. Thanks for this, HPIG
Hope you enjoy the game
Wow! This is a really good guide--and I love that it's current! So many of the guides out there are from 2013, or many years ago. Great content man! I subbed just for this vid.
I'm currently doing a playthrough, and I'm very thankful for this because this will only be my second time conquering calradia. Also, you put it into perspective to use both crossbows and archers. Edit: Another good counter to swadian knights is having your infantry really close together. Usually they will charge with lances but all the lances will do is break the infantry's shields. The horses will be stuck in your square of guys and they'll be cut down.
What a great guide! I always just played casually but could tell there was a lot of room for strategy and planning. Can't wait to get sucked back into this game! Thank you!
I've come back to this video several times since first playing MBW, and I've learned something new each time. Great content! Thank you!
this is the most informative guide on M&B i have seen. thanks for this, it has helped a lot.
While you farm sea raiders, rivacheg sells raw silk for around 300 and you can sell at wercheg for 500-600
Or Veluca for 700-800!
@@rondoclark45 veluca is significantly further away when farming sea raiders
@@jaykee5724 I know where Veluca is. You stock up on silk while farming sea raiders. When you have a few rolls saved up, you make the trip. Easy money.
@@rondoclark45 mid game you won't need a surplus of money but instead focusing on the xp grind for late game
@@jaykee5724 LOL, farming sea raiders IS early game.
I have been playing this game since i live on this big rock. This is not even the best MB guide i have found, it is probably even the best game guide ever! Very very detailed, very accurates! I have watched it to the end and i can say, that every minute was worth it. Btw thank you so much for telling me these things i didn't know yet: - How to properly level your vassals - Make the bad guys Prisoners - From now i will always wear shoes with steel caps when going to the groceries to make sure that i stay concious Farewell, you really didn't miss any part of the game, you brought everything to the table that i could imagine. This is definetly a sub by me, even tho i don't really care about your other content, but this guide is legendary. Peace Out! YAAAAAAWWWW!
Watched the whole video and found it both entertaining & informative. Will definitely return at a later date (once I make it pass early game lol). Made an Excel sheet throughout the video because why not. Thank you for your work!
The best guide I've ever seen. I found everything I needed to know! Thank you wise sir.
I've played this game over 300 hours and I thought I knew everything, but your guide kept showing me how noobish I really was. Lol but it's a good thing, I learned a lot and I'm totally going to start a new file! :) Thank you for your hard work! Also, you're very talented and pleasant to listen to. I usually get bored after 45 or so minutes with guides, but I listened to the entire thing in one sitting! Definitely earned a fan!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.
@@HitPointInnGaming A question for you good sir! Some of the companions you recommend obviously will dislike each other, Artimenner dislikes Klethi, Deshavi doesn't like Rolf, etc. How do you combat this? I also want to be sure, gather all the companions, send them to gain right to rule, then have like Nizar leave, Ymira, Marnid etc?
@@EliteWraith 300 hours in any game really isn’t much. 1,000 hours isn’t all that much but it’ll give you definitely more time to figure things out....but not as much as ppl think
Dude this guide has helped me so much!!! I keep referencing back to it while I'm playing and I always find the answer I'm looking for! Thanks for doing this guide!
Genuinely interesting and well thought out guide, watched all the way through and subscribed!
The BEST Warband Guide on Internet..... respect..... and tnx...
I like to put lots into archery because one-handed flies up during battles. I like to choose university student at the beginning to get an expensive book to sell.
This video is great! I just got into this game again after a few years, love ur casual way of explaining things.
What a great video.I watched it few times already,you presented it beautifully,from start to finish. Thank you!
This is gold! Evertyhing i need to know explained perfectly! TY BROTHER!
Hey, having a village loyal to you will also allow you to recruit troops (quality and quantity included) from it even when your faction is at war with their faction.
yeah my relationship with a village is 100 and i got 27recruit or 10 footman or 3 skimisher, (sarranid)
I’ve been playing this game for a long time and I felt like this video helped with a lot of questions I had for it. Thank you my man 🙏
Absolutely loved watching through this guide. I had a good concept of the basics on how to make money and combat but I always struggled with how to build up towards the late game. Time to start up a new playthrough and take charge round Calradia :)
Im glad to see people still playing this game, thank you for your service
just bought it for like 2,5€ on steam two weeks ago. Great game!
Have over 180 hours in this game but only recently started my first kingdom. Really helpful part about the lord's I didn't know, since I'm stuck with a bunch of bad lord's I didn't realise were dicks. Great vid
Picked this game up for free on PlayStation and your guide has helped me so much!
Thank you so much for this. In my first play through a couple years ago I just looted and pillaged everything and made my own rather slapdash khanate. I can’t wait to start a more sophisticated run!
Would like to point out in the beginning that some starting choices may give you skills towards your desired build. For example I enjoy choosing all the steppe choices available as they give you skill points into riding, that you would otherwise have to spend, regardless of what your agility is. Meaning you get 4 riding with the starting agility of 8, which I think is worth it.
""It is better to be Male." HPIG 2019
Well... easier :)))
I always pick Female it makes end game easier but early game is difficult
Brilliant insight ,I'm relatively new to warband but have put many hours in on my current game ,having watched this video I'm about to start from scratch all over again as it seems I've been doing alot wrong especially with leader and companion skill points ,great video mate ,very helpful 👍
I'm glad it helped.
Really insightful and informative guide, thank you for making such a great guide!
One can put together a pretty good-sized contingent of Slaver Chiefs fairly quickly. Much of the early/mid-game fights are against bandits; often these guys run around with Manhunters as prisoners, sometimes quite a few of them (10+). Keep an eye out on the main map for bandit groups with Manhunter captives, and liberate/hire all the Manhunters you can. The MHs themselves aren't great, but they level up pretty fast. Aside from being good (ok..not "best") heavy cavalry, my favorite part about this unit group is their non-factionality; they don't suffer a morale hit regardless of who you're fighting. I think Slaver Chief is a great complement to an otherwise all-Nord or all-Rhodok army. Their cost doesn't seem too terrible either, compared to the Caravan/Mercenary group.
when i managed to wipe out the first kingdom i had a king join my kingdom xD most effective patrol :D anyone that still plays try out Native Expansion. its like vanilla but improved alot. got 800 hours on that mod
One of the best QOL mods there is.
I started playing on console about a month ago. I wanted to recruit all the kings...eventually I learned you couldnt do that
@@356z Sadly so. What I do on Xbox is leave them one castle and start doing quests for them to build relations. They stop declaring war on me that way. They'll go to war with each other, loot and burn each other's one village, then call a truce. Otherwise, they're patrolling their area for bandits.
oh dude native expansion is fucking brilliant
Thank you so very very much for this wonderful guide, you are a legend for sharing all this knowledge. Keep up the good work.
Excellent work! relied on this frequently on my Queen of Calradia playthrough. hopefully there'll be an Ultimate Bannerlord guide in the future.
Veluca oil press is the way to go, got one to and brings a sweet 400 plus gold weekly 😁
Haven't played the game for years until I saw this video... now I'm addicted again! Quick question, of many I have, are improvements to villages worth it and do they get destroyed completely if the village is looted?
They get damaged if the village is looted. They can be repaired afterwards. Improvements increase profit and relations with the village.
Same here man!
Never has a game gripped me more than Mount and blade warband has, i got it recently for ps4 and i and loving the Lord of the ringsesk cavalry charge to forces bigger than your own
Dude I'm using this guide, thanks a lot! I couldn't find a complete guide like this :D
Grate guide. I love that u explaine everything in detaile
I have really enjoyed the artistism and overall mood of the Guidemaster. Also i tend to agree with a lot of what he says. Although i must add some really important things that he did not have time to think throught or explain to a new players: First and most important: Strenght is the most important, or useful stat in the game. Because you can't grind it(as amount of soldiers in your party in case of leadership; weapon efficency in case of weapon mastery or money in case of capturing prisoners). You also can't obtain it throught someone else(like you can with almost any int based skill using your companions). And more than that - Strenght is the only skill that directly influences your power on the battlefield. No other skill could just literally give you double damage, or raise your health by forth. Second thing: One/Two handed weapons - are always worse than speciallized on one of those Combined type have 30% less speed on a horse - no matter if you have second hand free. On the ground - the same thing happpens if your second hand is occupied by a shield. So almost any speciallized(especially onehanded) weapon will be more efficent in terms of cavalry fight, or fight with archers. I've counted it so many times - its insane. Like with morningstar in case of this video. On a horse it does 40 damage with attacking speed of Great Hammer - that weapon which does 47, and also has everything else that morning star has. Just makes more sence to have anything speciallized: one-handed or two-handed, than mixed type. Third one: Khergit lancers are one of the most dangerous units that i've encountered in the game. He probably just forgot about them. Or plays some version without this unit. Idk. But Khergit lancers is a serious threat on the battlefield. Especially when you consider that most of the fighting time with Khergits you chase annoyngly their horse archers, to just touch them with a sword. And then sometimes you decide to give up one of those pissing chases. You slow down - to look around the battlefield -to find a new target. And in this moiment you suddenly realize - that it's a lance of a "Khergit Knight" that where chasing you this whole time. And now it have chased you well into death. I have a feeling that he would put them on the third place with Waegir cavalry. But i'd say - they are at least as dangerous as Sarranids horsemans. Fourth - and that's a cheaty one: Two of your companions can get all the int. skills. Even overlay each other a bit. Assign them two as a new type - and send at the rear to wait untill big battle will end. And all of your other six companion-killing machines will be with you. Even in a potentially dangerous moment of need Fift: Damage type is a scam. Battles in this game are well too balanced. There is enough peasants and heavy units to make any type of damage justifiable. Why wold you need 20 armor penetrating damage - to still hit a peasant twice during the siege? I'd say - its important that most of the time you can kill your enemies with less than two or three relatively fast blows. Then everything is fine. Thank you for reading. It was my pleasure to be a part of discussion.
Awesome vid. Keep coming back to look at different parts. Subbed & Followed.
Been getting more into this recently playing on console, its been tough sledding but this guide has been useful
Playing on consoles is harder and we don't even have mods, I've been enjoying though.
just started on console, super addicting and interesting seeing ways to manage formations with just the arrow pad ;-;
Dude, you have an amazing voice. You'd be a fantastic radio personality.
Thanks man I don’t usually like these types of games but this game is sick and you’ve helped a bunch 🙏🏽
Thank you, for the amazing guide, my friend. 💜
One slight note: If you want to equip the very best bow; which is the warbow with the I think "masterful" it's called modifier; that has a power draw requirement of 7; thus you need 21 strength as well. So yes, if you are like me and want to strive for the best of the best and want to potentially equip EVERY single item, you would need 21 strength. Also on the matter of money I would like to add one thing; the thing that single-handedly gives you the most cash reliably, by FAR, is raiding villages. If you raid a village of a nation you are at war with; the only downside is that certain companions dislike it and I suppose for roleplay reasons if you want to be the "good guy". You do not lose honor if you are at war with the nation you are raiding against; only if you do it at peace time! I have tried it with a few villages and each time the loot sold for at least 4000 to 5000, I think once close to 8000 gold. Because this tiny village apparently had spices, velvet, seven units of dyes and it goes on and on with other stuff. Winning tournaments with the standard "odds against you" and betting max gold every time gives you close to 4000, but you need to find a tournament. Another thing, keep enemy lords as prisoner for as long as possible during war; I got a ransom offer for 1700 gold once, and another one for 7000. Yup, that's right, 7k right there. It's very RNG heavy; the lord might escape or you might not get an offer until the war ends, so it's not reliable. I am not the biggest fan of selling prisoners, since you would need to put many points into prisoner management. I tend to put two points or so, just to keep lords. Win against sea raiders (or weaker bandits before that), take everything that's worth 100 gold or more, leave the rest and repeat. If you don't take out the sea raider landing, there will be bands of them around all the time; I literally never saw the area around the landing free of them, no matter how often I killed them over and over again. With the inventory full off 100+ gold items, go to a city and sell it off, then repeat. You make enough to completely drain the merchant's money, which should be around 8000 fairly quickly; then you move on.
Thank you for the extra tips :D
@@HitPointInnGaming Masterwork war bow has a power draw requirement of 8. An arrow in the torso one shots any odd archer at close to medium range.
I got a ransom on Sanjar Khan 2 times so far, one for 64k and one for 60k
Hi all, am new to M&B and watched this video as I was struggling, my biggest downfall is the fact I cannot mix faction troops, genuinely frustrates me seeing different factions in my squad, I enjoyed the video though and feel it's helped alot (I play on PS4)
You can assign them to group one through 6 if you go to the screen you level them up and go to the tab that says what class they are Cavalry, infantry, archer etc.
very good guide! sums up all there is to know about this AMAZING game!
(For console)You can assign cavalry to a different group name in the party menu, name one left and the other right. now when you go into a field battle you can press the left directional pad choose cavalry choose movement formation which will automatically be on (hold this position) hold left directional pad and you’ll see a banner to place you troops with out moving your self, choose left group and place on the left then right and place right now you can have your cavalry attack from both flanks of the enemies
16:51 the highest masterwork bow takes 8 power draw I believe (masterwork war bow) so you will actually need 24 str to use all the weapons in the game
I just bought this a week ago on ps store. Great game and great guide. I think I might try to go for the platinum.
GL... it has MP trophies which makes it difficult with all the trolls in ps4
1v1 duel me on multiplayer noob Siludagamer
Best guide simple and straightforward. Thanx to you now i wont waste hours being lost.
Incredible guide, congratulations! :D
This guide is pretty "Gosh Darn Good", thanks
Look Innman , everything the Red touches is Your Kingdom. HAHA XDDDD Nice easter egg man :D
Hakuna matata
I wish I had said this before and I've moved on to Bannerlord now. But this this video is absolutely amazing, you are extraordinary helpful and it made my Warband experience way better. Thank You sir.
Thank God for this video!! This was so helpful when starting my playthrough
This guy knows the game back to front
Just got this for PS4 and I’ve been running around like a chicken with my head cut off this should help a lot:)
Major Metamorphosis haha it does take a while but once you know what you're doing its easy! I have a massive army and always more then 100k, i Have 8 of the best Captains/Generals in the game aswell. Its hard to get party members to get along
This video helped me alot. Thank you so much! and i'm glad that you still see the comments
I gotta :)
That's the most usefull video about m&b of all time. Thank you :)
Just wanna say, when I face kerhgits (forgot how to spell their name) I end up going to the very back border wall and they’ll smack right into it trying to circle you, if you have any decent cavalry they can kinda just cut them down a little quicker but it’s still a nuisance
i love narra Edit: and Veluca
Another great tip would be to pick a faction to hate on, basically a faction you know you won't join or side with; also make sure you don't care to recruit from their troop tree for the entire playthrough. Then go ham on them; loot their villages, steal cattle, ambush lords etc. This way you don't have to worry about bad relations and can grow much faster by milking them as a cash cow. I suggest kingdoms like the Swadians because of their horrible central positioning which makes them an easy target.
Good advice :D
My guy, this guide is amazing! Thank you very much my man! 👌
hi, im the marshall of Swadia, i started a campaign but when i siege a city they don't fight with me do you know how to get them to siege with me?
bah, Swadian lord is bastard, or you are too fast too besiege a castle or city
Never seen such a profound and well made video about this cool game
I always do the 10 person stable party.
Lol i love how annoyed you got about the food. I feel you bud. I think this guide is for people who have 20-30 hrs in game and are trying to figure out how to get to late game. If you ever decide to do another one of these, do it off stream i think.
Well, people on stream tend to remind me on interesting stuff that I would forget to mention when offline. I much more prefer to do the guides online.
Thanks, dude. You really helped out a fellow Calradian.
one of the best videos for new players thank you dude.👍