You can sell it immediately to Middenlandorm Brettonnia if you really don't want it. Leoncur will be a better shield than Marienburg probably as he is a Legendary Lord.

I think it was plex3708 who discovered this one, so I cannot take any credit!

trade grunburg (which has a barracks) for karak Norn. Maybe you forgot to build the barracks/gunnery on turn 1?

There is a zero-movement-circle around settlements. You can move into the settlement or out of it into the immediately adjacent hex without using any movement if you have none. If you own the settlement you can move form one side to the other for free, covering quite a decent amount of distance.

@@MercytheMad Huh, I knew that moving within your own settlements area of influence doesn't cost movement points, but I didnt realize that you can also attack and occupy enemy settlements inside the same area....

It makes you more vulnerable to Belakor and Norsca - but also kickstarts your campaign, gets you steamrolling early you start with Tier 3 Stables for Bruckner already built and can be recruiting Knights of the Black Rose from Turn 3. If you don't want the extra vulnerability you could always sell it all to Middenland, or Brettonnia for extra cash. But I think the whole point of this start is to be ultra aggressive - it's probably not really for turtling. Personally I prefer Roleplay/Lore Friendly Karl Franz campaigns where I don't confederate Marienburg or any Elector Counts :)

Sorry I can't understand :(

What's the Katarin confederation? Different from the videos I made?

@@MercytheMad You made a video about it. As Katarin you trade the minor settlement you start with to the Ice Witch neighbor. By turn 4 they get beaten by Moulder then you can confed them and take the settlement back.

@@semipork What's the point to that? She's not a LL, right?

@@semipork oh nvm. It's to circumvent having to train an ice witch isnt it

I haven't touched the game in a long time, and very out of the game at the moment. I think also a lot of the skills have been changed since launch. Thanks for the insight into the current state of the game.

@@MercytheMad Most of your tutorials/guides are still viable, tho they patched out the "enemy tenacity" infamy boost, among other minor things. Tho many other things are still buggy, like AI having unlimited range with throwing grenades and being able to put traps on "safe zones". Cheers.

Cheers! Glad you are enjoying the game. I love the Necromunda background althoguh for some reason I actually prefer the older game, Mordheim these days. Just has more atmosphere/soul somehow.

Maybe not exact same steps but same theories should be applicable to other situations - using region trade to pump relations - then using wars or alliances to update in same turn - then using War decs via military alliance to make AI threatened - trade regions near enemies to make more threat.

how do you get boris on turn 4?

Khazrak destroys Boris too fast and he is not worth it. Also confeding through diplomacy doesn't affect cooldown on unify button, so you can confed 2 factions on turn 3 and 6 respectively

I usually take out Kemmler first then go back north wiping out Khazrak and the Goblins and reviving Boris on the way to cap Festus. You can then confed Boris whenever you like after that. Revive then anther +3 from returning his other regions, then +3 from high relations is plus 7 and I think he starts higher than 3.

@@MercytheMad True. Maybe I value the regeneration items too highly, but I consider them to be a major boost early on. As Elspeth - I'm not entirely certain - but you might have to be quick. I'm not sure she can revive Boris, since a rebellion in Middenland gave me "Empire Rebels" instead of "Middenland Rebels", that was after confederation though, so further testing might be needed.

Marienburg is tier 3; way more important than getting items.

Nice!

Wait till you find out you can do all of this on turn 2

Haven't worked that one out. Franz can't make it to Eilhart on turn 2 if he sacks Grunburg, but if he just takes the starting army and then force marches then the solo Lord couldn't take an unsacked Grunburg could they?

You only lose reliability if you declare war AFTER making peace. You never lose reliability by making peace. This works same in WH2

@@humanbog3653 Dude I'm playing WH2 right now and days ago I had this very moment where I had been asked by the faction that declared war on me to make peace (because I fucked him up in 4 turns) and I accepted it because I needed him alive rather than dead and after the peace treaty I noticed my reliability dropped from very high to medium This happened to me man and I know what I'm talking about

@@alirezarezaei2976 Might have lost reliability due to some of your allies dragging you into wars or some other shenanigans? I often take peace for money shortly after declaring war in WH2 and 3, and never had a reliability drop. Just did it to Skeggi earlier today in fact.

@@alirezarezaei2976that’s because another ally brought you into the war by treaty. If you left that war you then abandoned your ally to fight alone. If another ally didn’t call you into the war it’s not dishonorable to make peace.

​@@ekothesilent9456 yeah they should really make those things more clear for the players.

You can consolidate Reikland on turn 2 now. Use franz to SACK the first settlement instead of take it. Then March west towards the third settlement. Use your recruited turn 1 reikland lord plus 1 unit of swordsmen to take the sacked settlement on turn 2. As well as a turn 1 ranged lord plus 1 arrow unit from helmgart to capture the second settlement while Franz takes the third. All on turn 2.

@@ekothesilent9456 Nice! I'm going to try that!

@@MercytheMad as a bonus you have a huge likelihood of getting magic items from the sack, that is very important for the future scrappy fights in the next 2-3 turns. I usually have franz sacking and marching every single turn with a lord that follows him to occupy and recruit. The fights are always crazy scrappy and I’ve managed to get all of reikland, marienburg, wipe out the beast men, goblins, and festus, all by turn 7.

@@MercytheMad oh and I’ll be expecting my shoutout on your next video. 😎 subbed, of course

Hmm, yeah I can't figure it out. If Franz Sacks Grunburg he cannot reach Eilhart by turn 2 as far as I can see... maybe message me on discord if you can be bothered explaining it properly

Correct. Everyone without facial hair is a woman...or a Tilean :P

​@@MercytheMad or a filthy Elgi, of course.

Haha, glad to help!