9 Useful Tips to Get Better in Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord

[@timmercado7020]

Regarding training bandits into top-tier kingdom troops: Many people are saying you DON'T need disciplinarian to do this. What you need is a town or settlement with a training grounds, preferably level 3. Leave your sea raider cheifs and so on in that settlement's garrison, and over time, the settlement will train them beyond their bandit tier without needing the disciplinarian trait. Please note I have only read this, and have not tested it personally.

[@rayjay2954]

You also can give bandits to your companions party, they going to upgrade them for you even without disciplinarian! This might be a kind of exploit but it works!

[@Joe_Friday]

@@rayjay2954 I've been leaving troops in my garrison and none of them are upgrading. I've had training grounds for a long time.

[@TritiumJones]

I've tested this and it does seem to work. The big caveat is that they will not be upgraded if there are 2 choices for that upgrade. Secondly, they cannot be upgraded if the upgrade would require a horse.

[@TritiumJones]

For example, looters or Forest bandits are great examples of criminals that can be upgraded via this method. Looters only have the option of upgrading into an Imperial infantryman, and Forest bandits can only upgrade to the Fian

[@drekor884]

@@Joe_Friday You should put them in the garrison once they are ready to level up. You'll also not be able to upgrade troops that need a specific resource like a warhorse with this method.

[@deemigs]

When using Javelins, press "X" to use it as a spear.

[@italianspartacus]

Oh man that's such a good one. I've been considering a thrown/one handed playthrough where I save the last javelin as my main weapon

[@demomanchaos]

Should work for throwing axes as well when they finally patch it, but until then you have to use a mod.

[@Siggi-Bear]

@@italianspartacus But sadly throwing sucks in bannerlord. You cant even use the throwing axe as one hander

[@Siggi-Bear]

@Grungor knives makes sense that they don't work. But axes should be able to do damage. And be used as normal axe. I don't know what javelin you have found but I can't 1hit shit

[@Siggi-Bear]

@Grungor axes are weak as shit as well. Need a buff. A speed buff maybe. Axes are way lighter then swords I think

[@LoreWagon]

100+ hours and I'm only learning now that "N" opens the encyclopedia..

[@Brimfarm]

I've played 150 hours without knowing I can move siege engines into reserve, thank you Sir this will change everything

[@tonyd6782]

The siege tower reserve tip was very useful.

[@2arobinson2]

That and the batch upgrading have changed my life forever

[@MrDiaxus]

Best of the bunch for me, totally changed the game!

[@call4906]

you arent lying! I couldnt figure out the point of building them because they constantly were destroyed lol

[@allanchurm]

yep if you can get the troops to go up them ( press attack button sometimes works ) to correct this

[@AurioDK]

I started, won a tournament, sold a helm ... bought a caravan .... my life was set.

[@italianspartacus]

Story of my life hahaha

[@Lupus_01]

Then they nerfed caravans into oblivion :(

[@blax140]

excuse me but what helm was it

[@AurioDK]

@@blax140 That was an old game, can´t remember, I always do the same start though and only seen an expensive helm twice. Sells for around 30k.

[@Tremain]

One tip that vastly improved my playing was to stop thinking of myself as a bad ass warrior and start acting like a bad ass general. Instead of doing F1 F3 and running off to decapitate peasants stay behind and lead your troops.

[@italianspartacus]

Great point man! :)

[@heishephaestion4178]

right but its undeniable that fighting enemies yourself greatly reduces your own casualties especially during a proper large battle

[@XxgoodbudsxX]

Damn I f1 f3 every time no wonder I suck lol

[@buxadonoff]

@@heishephaestion4178 not really, you can control your troops and wreck other armies without many casualties

[@ImperiomSineFine]

@@buxadonoff I have 40 hours into the game at the moment and I was wondering, can you split your army into multiple units ? For now I have 1 units of ranged, 1 of cavalry and 1 of melee. Is it possible to split them into smaller units ? Therefore I would be capable to do better strategy with flank etc. If not, I still think your character is the one winning battles. I'm fighting with a big boy halberd and i'm using my melee units to lure the npc's for me to bash skulls in safety and well it works really fine ! Been able to win battles 3 to 1 playing like that especially in large scale battles.

[@chrislewis2005]

Doctor's Oath. Medicine perk. Get it, or make sure you're surgeon companion has it. I was cleaning up looters and similar punks and was getting 90-100% of them as prisoners. Sure, you might not need that MANY, but it's more quality troops to sell or flip into ur own ranks. It's my second favorite perk next to Disciplinarian. :)

[@WhirlwindOfWTF]

In the latest beta, 1.2?, send troops now has lethal results against even looters. Even with a 5-1 numbers advantage. Edit: To clarify, lethal to player troops

[@craycho9899]

God that's bullshit. It's like Warband but worse. I was finally excited for tactics to do something but noooo..

[@nalivai4862]

@@craycho9899 It's probably effected by tactics, but it should be tested

[@craycho9899]

@@nalivai4862 It is! That's why they nerfed the crap out of it

[@Egolithz]

I think tactics is trying to get balanced, but in 1.2 it either got nerfed too much or the tactic skill level/perks aren't working correctly. In 1.1 you wouldn't get any (fatal) casualties from looters, which seems like they had a formula that made the death % zero vs looters.

[@kameng12]

Yeah how tf am I losing 5 good guys out of 98 men to kill 14 looters... makes it to where you can’t send troops, you have to micromanage ever small skirmish.

[@MilitaryHistoryVisualized]

About capturing enemies, for those who like to shoot themselves, get tournament arrows they do blunt damage as well. I assume the Mercenary Guards use that ammo type (although bolts).

[@italianspartacus]

Yes sir!! :)

[@silenceofhearts6138]

took me a couple re-reads of your comment to figure out I'm not supposed to shoot myself (in game)

[@Lowkeh]

Fancy seeing you here Berinhard!:D

[@MetalGamer666]

Anyone else find the lack of panzers in the game disappointing?

[@meneldal]

There are blunt bolts too in some cities if you like using a crossbow.

[@ChaseAerospace]

That move to reserve tip with the siege engines was fantastic. That saves soooooo much time and headache.

[@italianspartacus]

Glad I could help :)

[@Lupus_01]

I discovered this during my first siege thankfully makes a hell of a difference.

[@LeatherCladVegan]

One of the most important things for me to learn was: Pick your Battlefield! So many times I would have a legit badass army, but I would get pulled into a village, or shitty terrain, and now my tactical awareness is practically zero, and I can't even deploy troops because they are blocking each other in. It takes what should be a well-ordered slaughter fest, and turns it into a complete clusterfuck.

[@big.guy77]

Excellent depiction of the siege tips, I didn't understand how to do this "before attacking" for a long time. Really cuts down on losses, makes sieges go faster, and you can even victoriously ride your steed into the fray inside the walls (by the Lady!) Other things I'd add though, first: if you have an army, while waiting on the trebuchets to be built remember to keep an eye on Cohesion (the gold bar above the army window, bottom right corner) and replenish it if it gets low (click on the bar). Easy to lose track of while micromanaging the catapults. Second, always use trebuchets, and start the assault once the "walls" health bars reach zero. Finally, replenishing the army Cohesion is always free when your army consists of companion parties, but once you're rolling along, even with non-companions it's not that costly in influence to keep replenishing Cohesion.

[@AnonSeacat]

Influence is a bit weird at the moment. The gain is pretty slow and steady at most times, excruciatingly slow at the start, but once Council of Commons is passed and you have a few fiefs you just get way too much.

[@Rall707]

Thanks for this. I didn't know it was actually possible to replenish cohesion without reforming the army.

[@YT-zy7wd]

I don't really agree with your first tip. The first three rows of attributes you train just by playing and by the time they really matter (after lvl 15 let's say) you already have decent experience in them. It's way more important to focus on the last three rows of attributes (especially charm, leadership and steward) as they are crucial to the 2nd half of the game and building your own kingdom. I'd also avoid putting too much effort in engineering, medicine, scout, and tactics, because for them it's better to find suitable companions which already have 80+ points in them.

[@jlaw131985]

Biggest tip I have is: trade is godly.

[@sebastianchantre3152]

Most fun aspect of the game at this point for me

[@jlaw131985]

Sebastian Chantre I basically bought the entire continent.

[@daanvids7112]

Any tutorials?

[@sebastianchantre3152]

@@daanvids7112 search for Trade Masterclass Bannerlord. Its the video where it says "DENRS" in the thumbnail. Awesome guide

[@jlaw131985]

@Daan de jongh over all though, just check out rumors and get a sense of where to move things. Caravans are a little riskier now, but workshops are pretty good. Once you get some decent money where you aren’t worried about going broke, just go around upping your trade skill until you can get to 225. Also always chat with nobles and sell/buy something from them, even if it is a bad deal because it ups your Charm skill, and you’ll want to be able to convince nobles to join you once you form your new kingdom that owns most of the continent...you’ll need nobles pretty quickly to avoid being overwhelmed, unless you already wait it out so they are broke with barely any armies, but with the big that kept failing the main quest for me, I just wanted to get it over with.

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

Kinda weird how bandits turn into nobles... but hey Nobles seem to be more common in villages for me too, than towns.

[@ulharr]

A noble is just the grandson of a good enough killer

[@cseijifja]

That makes sense dude, nobles would be land holders in the field, the city would be full of middle lower class dudes.

[@cragnamorra]

Yes, noble-line troops come from Powerful Landowners in villages. Not headmen, not city notables, and not mere regular/influential village landowners. "Powerful" means they have 200+ Influence. Their inluence does change, but very very slowly; years into the game, it's still pretty much the same guys. So in the beginning, it's worth checking the encyclopedia and making a list of the right villages to go looking for your desired noble troops; that list will stay valid for a very long time during the playthrough. (btw, those Powerful Landowners won't *always* have noble troops, just they're the only ones eligible to sometimes offer them).

[@davevd9944]

@@cragnamorra Personally when I check around villages I check the influence of every person. If they're powerful or very close to it I'll mark the settlement. So when my army walks by the town I can look if it has new special troops.

[@andreapradella9011]

It seems so! There is a mod on the Nexus that allows you to see marked with a crown any settlement in which there could be noble recruits! It also marks towns with tournaments to compete in... not gamebreaking but very handy :) www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/429

[@natanulsiref]

Bannerlord is considered a drug? Damn it! Another one... Maybe that's why I like it so much?

[@TheGlamourNazi]

I had no idea about "move to reserve" for siege engines and i have almost 200 hours in this game

[@MotohideTheBrave]

Took me 50+ hours without knowing you can move siege engines, thanks to your video my sieges finally are better! awesome tip!

[@italianspartacus]

It's definitely not very self explanatory, the only reason I know is from people telling me during streams!

[@mikeskinner315]

80 hours for me lol. 100 hours before I realized that during that overhead assault view right before the siege begins, that you could move troops from there.. Sieging became much easier after I could pull 4 trebs up at once, smash the walls, and then during the prep stage just split my army and mass them in line of each wall break before we officially 'start' the siege battle.

[@lordmuhehe4605]

If sieges require you to cheese them by reserving your siege engines, then they need a rework, i mean, why the fuck can't you build siege engines outside of the range of ballistas, you know, the way everyone would be building them.

[@italianspartacus]

Here's the banner used in the video guys: www.reddit.com/r/BannerlordBanners/comments/fwqeci/empire_eagle_banner/

[@Cipher655]

One of the timeless hints: Start as Khuzait. Get Horses. Laugh at everyone.

[@xBeauGaming]

Thanks a bunch man, I really appreciated the tip about leveling as a full stack. Good job!

[@italianspartacus]

Absolutely man :) Glad it helped! It's a bit different now just because the ENTIRE party gets experience when a stack of units kills something, but that stack gets more. so, it's still viable, just slightly different now with how experience gain works as of..... 1.6.0 I think :D

[@asdasd-ty9se]

Why, hello there

[@madden12]

Amazing tips, i have an unhealthy number of hours into the game and didny expect to learn so much from this

[@musicmusic-je7ly]

I didn't know about the trick with the sieges to keep te catapult for later..... After 100 hours :)) thanks

[@airanator1212]

I hope they add more maps that include ruined towers, forts, etc. that you’ll randomly get when fighting in the open world. Also, in the future, will they add siege equipment to actually recruit within armies to take around into open field battles? That’d be awesome.

[@italianspartacus]

I don't imagine so, but I am sure we'll get different maps :)

[@marco8414]

More often then not siege engines were built on scene because they are super costly to move around IRL. I wouldn't be surprised if you saw a mod in the future allowing you to bring them around, but at extreme speed penalty.

[@SmokeJam]

Siege engines in open field battle are a funny, but useless idea^^ They are so immobile, that they would get swarmed. Thats why in the medieval times good garrisoned castles always attempted to sally out at least with their calvary and destroy siege engines before the enemy could proceed to the acutal siege battle. And as Bannerlord tries to stay relatively realistic with battle setups I would say they won't implement siege engines as real troops. Maybe engineers to speed up the building process, but no army ever brought their battering ram along the march, at least not in a functionial one piece but only the parts to assemble it faster on site

[@csfelfoldi]

You can upgrade bandits into normal troops without the disciplinarian skill if when ready to be upgraded you put them in one of your castles that has training fields. Keep in mind that XP gain in castles is really slow so this only really works for bandits ready to become regulars. Possible unintended exploit, could be patched.

[@Joe_Friday]

I've had all sorts of peasants, hooligans, ruffians, misfits and all other rabble in between and not a single soldier has been upgraded. I have a training camp built too. They've been garrisoned for months.

[@csfelfoldi]

@@Joe_Friday They get really low XP per day like 1-3 depending on the training fields level. It's so says on the tooltip so this tactic only works for troops that are READY to level up, meaning the minute they get 1 XP the game checks if they reached the cap and ups them to the next level. I just did this with some forest bandits and it absolutely works as they turned into Fians.

[@Joe_Friday]

@@csfelfoldi So the troops have to already be ready for upgrade? If troops aren't ready will they ever upgrade?

[@csfelfoldi]

@@Joe_Friday If they are ready to upgrade it will do it in a day, if not you can calculate the days. A level 3 camp will give 3 xp per day. A freebooter to forest bandit is 719 xp. So it will take 240 day to upgrade from 0. This is why you can have them sit in there for months and see nothing. It doesn't work with troops that need horses. Namely highwaymen, raiders and sea raider bosses cannot be upgraded this way. So it's mainly looters and forest bandits that gain from this.

[@MetalGamer666]

@@csfelfoldi What if they can be upgraded to more than one type? Will they just pick one, or will they not get upgraded?

[@jamieangus9247]

Tip for training a specific troop type - assign them their own group (e.g. assign imperialrecruits to group 8) then find a bunch of looters and send them to charge the enemy, leaving behind the rest of the army. They do all the fighting and will get all the xp, leaving you to do the batch upgrading later on. Alternative method is to do the same with top tier, e.g. legianary, and send them far to the back, leaving only troops that can gain xp to do the fighting.

[@crunchymix]

I do the same.

[@isntezbncheezy7326]

Same

[@allanchurm]

a lot still do not work..and they have made it worse on there updates and screwing things up that worked before..bandits have been increased so all your merchants get wiped at bridge crossings ALL THE TIME

[@avienated]

200 hours here. Learnt some things here and there. I have to disagree on #9 though (at least on realistic difficulty). You always wanna upgrade your units asap. That gives them better armor and better weapons, which in turn gives both them and the rest of your units better survivability. That also gives them the change to build xp for the next tier. I suppose that if you attack only very weak opponents with the purpose of leveling up your troops, your strategy might work. I'd say on realistic difficulty this is only viable the first few hours of a new game, if at all.

[@italianspartacus]

That's a really solid point, and I didn't really factor that in. I think the way I play, I'd rather have LESS recruits go to the next tier, than the next tier getting hurt more. I suppose it's diminishing returns either way, but that's a really good point thanks man

[@serpoiu]

I come across a family feud quest bug that allowed me to have 10 companions at clan tier 2. The downside is that they start at level 0 but you can control how they level up. Also makes for very funny easy tournaments 😉😂 The leveling up option is available only after the quest allocated time expires

[@Joe_Friday]

I use the family feud members to run my caravans. You don't have to waste your companions on caravans this way. Just equip said members with some armour and weapons then put them to work. You'll fail the quest but that doesn't matter as long as he works the caravan for profit.

[@madden12]

@@Joe_Friday Lol

[@Joe_Friday]

@@madden12 Hell. It works. I had a hell of a lot of caravans going until that one patch came along. The majority got killed after said patch. Now I've got a few running in safer areas. You gotta be real careful where you run the caravans now

[@MetalGamer666]

@@Joe_Friday Farmer's son: "But you said you were going to help me win my true love back, milord." Joe: "With the amount of money you're making for me, you're much more valuable to me this way." Farmer's son: "Impeccable logic, milord."

[@Joe_Friday]

@@MetalGamer666 Ha. Yeah. They don't know I'm using them as cheap slave labor. I've got six caravans up and running atm and not a single one are companions. All of my previous ones got wiped out after that one patch that nerfed them. Now I have to be super careful where I run them. Hopefully after the weekend I'll have 15+

[@tercerocastero]

Great tips! I've been a M&B player from the 1st one and am loving Bannerlord so much. Lots to learn and relearn, thanks for putting out so many helpful vids for both noobs and veterans, and veteran noobs like me too xD

[@Joe_Friday]

I remember running into the original M&B in a best buy when it first came out. Boy am I glad I bought it. Damn, this series is starting to get some age behind it.

[@davevd9944]

Cheese time 5:25 a tip for the siege engines. You know that even if it's completed sometimes you're not fast enough and the enemy manages to damage it even if you put it away it will still be damaged. Butttt if you move it to an empty spot then pauze and remove it they hit the empty spot with damaging your siege engine problem solved :D Maximum amount of cheese.

[@MetalGamer666]

I think this is fair, since in a realistic scenario you would never build them within range of the castle.

[@davevd9944]

@@MetalGamer666 Indeed you'd never be able to finish them if you get pelted by arrows or perhaps even get rocks lobbed at you.

[@MetalGamer666]

On that note, I don't like that you apparently agree to meet on a nearby field instead of fighting in the siege camp outside the castle when the enemy sally out.

[@davevd9944]

@@MetalGamer666 That would be a great idea perhaps they will add it i the future. You might be able to write them a ticket about it. It does make sense that if the enemy attacks you or if you get countered by an enemy army that the fight would take place in a siege camp. But they still habe plenty to do so If it happens (and that's a big if) it will be awhile. Perhaps modders will be able to do it.

[@virtualdream_]

Siege equipment reserving was helpful af. Didn't know about that

[@italianspartacus]

It's SOOO clutch!

[@jblue8436]

anyone know if the kids system is broken ive got like 12 babies none of em want to grow up and leave the nest

[@justanameonyourscreen5954]

I stopped after 4...just to see what happens...apparently nothing

[@berkegenceroglu1250]

i've read some posts about that and they say that you should enable "character die" on settings, i have no baby for now so i can't test it :D maybe you can try

[@hahaha41086]

2 years later and you taught me how to properly seige castles in 1 single sentence.

[@ivannadtochiev1849]

You dont really need roguery to get decorated northern haubek from sea raiders. Ive seen at least 3 dropped over a fairly long campaign for a charecter who never got even to 20 roguery. Its a little weird that a T6 armor is a somewhat common loot for sea raiders, given ive never got anything worth mentioning from other bandit types, but as is. They also drop several decent helmets, chain mittens and boots and at least 1 more decent chest piece. With tale worlds looking into reducing the quality of loot from bandits, i presume it wont last long. But as of 1.2beta, Sea Raiders are an invaluable source of early armor.

[@italianspartacus]

Oh you're 100% right, I was just making a point at how FAST I got that. Totally my bad on not conveying that properly Bratan. Spasibo for the information

[@Theosis10]

When I first started playing bannerlord I got a T6 bow from forest bandits that sold for 70k gold! Propelled my first character from a mercenary captain to a minor noble overnight lol

[@ivannadtochiev1849]

@@Theosis10 Wow, ive hunted them extensievely for disciplinarian. As in - ive got 82 fian champions from prisoners extensively. And never seen it. Its probably extremely rare. Or maybe i was just really lucky with sea raiders. After all we wont know actual drop chances untill data miners do their magick.

[@bjornbrynjuson4380]

Keep your party morale up with food variety will get your or your selected quartermasters Steward skill upp really fast.

[@HeadlessHorsemanProductions]

So i've seen this on other videos and don't understand what I am missing. In my party/army group page I have no roman numerals to change which group they are in. I've seen others doing this but I simply don't have this button. Is this a mod I need?? Thanks in advance.

[@Setnja92]

Converting prisoners into soldiers of your army is very valuable even in the late game. I have always 20 - 40 (from cca 150) prisoners of tier 4+. Cheap, fast, much more convenient way of replenishing high tier units looses than normal recruiting.

[@torkilj]

Not sure you covered this, but after getting smithing up to a fair level (was it 75+ish?), I started making these two-handed, regular iron swords, where I would max out on the most difficult parts for each of the sword's parts. Made a point out of making it as hard to smith as possible, so I would gain more skill. Seems to work best for that wide blade with "teeth"/spikes on it, that can only be used for swinging, not piercing. These easily sell for 20-30k per piece (!!) and use only melted looter weapons for the material. After this discovery, money was no longer an issue. Sell one sword, by two caravans? Wtf?! :) Plus I gained like 5+ skill points per sword crafted, at least at that time.

[@italianspartacus]

I really need to sink my teeth into smithing. I've been super timid with it so I need to really get on that, but I've heard this! Smithing returns a lot of money fast and I love seeing that

[@АлександърСавов-з4л]

guys, if you are going to play the game, LISTTEN TO THE MAN. He knows what he is doing. I am a big fan now mate. It took me around 100 hours as well to build up the skills and when you are 30 and do not have the full time of you enjoying playing the tips you are giving are quite essential. RESPECT.

[@italianspartacus]

Spasibo, Bratan!! I'm 32 so i definitely understand how you feel.. i mean, i'm making content for my job, but the other games I play on the side? I hardly have the time, so I enjoy circumventing 10s of hours of learning if I can hahahah

[@tumeden]

After this video i feel like starting a new game. haha. I've been doing a lot of things wrong.

[@Steve-ps6qw]

That was all great stuff. I have been playing non stop and have rerolled every day, lol. This is great stuff!

[@ColonelRuiz]

5:05 I never knew you could do that

[@RellshouldBsleep]

I love your videos I have a question if you have the time. I heard somewhere that if you attack a minor faction you will not be able to make peace and therefore will not be able to join a major faction can you confirm. I'm just about at the point where I'm ready to join a faction and don't want to mess up my 30 hour save thanks

[@italianspartacus]

Oh definitely not. Even if they are allied with that major faction, joining them will just end that war :) and thank you very much!! Hope this helped

[@anonymus2482]

Really enjoy your content ! Just 1 little remark : Are attribute points currently not rewarded once per 4 levels instead of the 3 when the game launched ?

[@italianspartacus]

Hmm.. I'll have to double check. I THOUGHT the tool tip said every 3, but now I'm second guessing

[@Theosis10]

I’m on the beta branch patch for the game and the tool tip does say every 4 levels for me.

[@seylawaldron]

For the attribute thing I just use the mod where you get a attribute point when you level. No every 3 level crap thats annoying.

[@BadMic]

This helped alot :D thank you! Just uploaded my first video on this and I looked really bad, but had fun haha

[@storrho]

I just married Monchugs daughter and she basically had every weapon and armor in the game in her inventory. Is that normal?

[@italianspartacus]

Uhhhh Hahahaha nope.. Not at all. Woof. You lucked out

[@cerebralmalsey]

I was so tired, I read your intro as Star Tacos.

[@italianspartacus]

HAHAHAHA

[@luiseatoll6368]

Use Column Formation on horse archers when in an open field, use it on the entire cav when in tight spaces such as forests or villages. In fields, it stops your archer-cavs from clumping, preventing deaths from enemy cav's charge while the drawback is that they may be easier to hit by archers in a circle formation. In tight areas, it helps your cavs navigate as the lead AI seem to well, lead. The other AI follows it and since the lead chooses route that has less obstacles, there's less of your cavs slamming themselves on trees or houses potentially killing them.

[@justanameonyourscreen5954]

6:22 this, one of those lords dropped horse armor with a 75defense like my second battle. I haven't even seen it for sale yet.

[@greatcornholio]

Another bit about leadership leveling, you can immediately take the troops back from your companion so they capture less prisoners / get less of the loot. Additionally, you can make someone with 0 steward your quartermaster so that you can have a smaller party size required. This will let you easily make armies with 25-30ish units (good for farming leadership while doing trade early game)

[@italianspartacus]

That guy had 0 steward.. Really surprised it had such a high army.. But great tips my dude :)

[@greatcornholio]

@@italianspartacus I love watching your vids man! Keep it up!

[@italianspartacus]

Thank you so much brother.. I've got more little guides in the work!

[@greathelmm]

11:50 holy crap, I didn't know you could custom group your troops! And I was cursing the other night about how stupid it is to mix your veteran troops with bunch of recruits..

[@italianspartacus]

Hahaha well a bug whipes it away every time you reload, so be cautious

[@cragnamorra]

Yep, best way to batch-train new recruits now. Tell everyone else to Hold Fire and just watch while the recruits go brawl with Looters. Sounds monotonous, and I guess it is, but I kinda enjoy it.

[@davevd9944]

@@italianspartacus I noticed that as well, very annoying but it will be fixed eventually I'm sure. It surprised me when they were all in 1 division. I'm currently using an all range army with 4 lines of 60 archers each supported by horse archers. It's beyond broken how I've had battles using 200-250 and utterly destroyed armies of 1000+ with no deaths on max difficulty and realistic. They don't even make it to my lines. A shame Renown is capped at 60. Makes it a waste to fight such big armies.

[@justanameonyourscreen5954]

@@italianspartacus this sooo annoying...

[@RandomZeroGravity]

16:01 It is not necessary to batch upgrading only for the same family stack of troops. You can mix-match those, as long as you assign them as the same formation, so long they are low tier troops (tier 1-2). They will still get EXP. I've tried.

[@RandomZeroGravity]

@Mr. Simplistic It works for me, but stacking it also work. The difference is that are willing to wait for those few troops to upgrade? Or just upgrade where the majority lot is ready. Your choice. 😊

[@FaesRollTroll]

You dont need the Disciplinarian perk. All you need to do is garrison the troops you wish to upgrade into a castle/town you have. They will be upgraded by the next day. (they need to be able to upgrade however)

[@italianspartacus]

I try not to talk about things that will get fixed as a tip just because well.. It'll get fixed.. Conversely, I did NOT know that'll work for bandits to push them into the next tier hahahaah.. I'll definitely try that

[@Joe_Friday]

Edmund, my troops haven't upgraded at all and I've had them garrisoned in a castle with training fields. What am I missing?

[@StephanthePelted]

Is there a way to bring out the log menu in the campaign map? Sometimes I find the text disappear too quickly

[@torkilj]

Also wondering about this!

[@russiansmoke3435]

@@torkilj Press ENTER while in the campaign man.

[@JesterfaceBassplayer]

Also, get an Engineer in your party like "The knowing" for example, who is a proficient crossbowman that will speed up your siege engine constuction. Very good companion to stick in formation with your archers aswell. Another utility companion tip is to get "The Smith" and let him refine hardwood and ore for your player Character to speed up smelting and crafting.

[@SrMikicas]

Okay this one is for those that want crossbows, right now the best early game crossbow is the Arbalist and it only ask you for 20 points in crossbow, crossbow is now easy to level up to 20 by going to the Vlandia arena and practicing until you get 20, then buy a crossbow and 3 packs of bolts with preference 20 units. With the community patch mod the crossbow cavalry perk works so you just need to get to level 75. To do this there's the slow but not cheesy way of killing looters from far away until they get close and ride with your horse and repeat and the cheesy exploit way. You need to get lucky and find a group of some kingdom fighting looters or someone that you are in war, wait until they kill each other, they win, before going out of battle kill all your allies with "friendly fire" crossbow to the head this counts for experience, horses don't do anymore. If you find a really big group you will have 60 headshot kills of crossbow and win so many experience, the best thing is this trick works too for throwing and bow, but I usually don't use it because you can use bows and throwing from the horse without any issue

[@italianspartacus]

1.3 adds light crossbows!

[@Nolia12]

You can order your troops, during a siege, to go bash the main gates down by selecting the troops, hitting F1 and the left clicking on the door when you see the grey gear symbol pops up. Same function to order them towards ladders and to go up siege towers.

[@ndb6ndk99]

"I'm uh... I'm looking for females"

[@TheMelnTeam]

4x treb are very nice, but takes a long time to build. Once you're strong it's often best to set up camp and then immediately assault...depends on garrison count and how many of them are ranged. If you have a large quantity of archers you can just concentrate them towards one area of a castle, grab a bow or xbow yourself, and start headshotting away all their archers. Since many enemies initially position elsewhere in the castle, you can have 4:1 odds of shooters vs defending shooters where you are positioned, more than offsetting height disadvantage. Then you shoot all the infantry that keeps trying to knock your ladders down/waits at top of them. This eventually clears out the area at the top of the ladders, after which your troops can scale them safely and overrun whatever's left of the defenses. If you don't have this numerical advantage in shooters it probably won't work and you'll need the trebs, but keep in mind that is a situation that tends to invite AI lords + sally out combo, so you'll be in a field combat before the trebs deploy in that case.

[@italianspartacus]

GREAT points man. 4x trebs is maybe more of a luxury than a compulsory comment and I apologize for not illustrating that!

[@ThisMagello]

The Eleftheroi are a bad choice for a cav option. Either due to bug or on purpose the Eleftheroi's proficiencies are not reflective of their position as heavy cavalry. They do not have any stats that are above 100 and even with better equipment are consistently out performed by Khuzait horsemen, who are a tier 3 cavalry unit. In terms of minor factions, these deficiencies in proficiencies are reflected with the Eleftheroi, Oathkeeper, Redshank and Jawwal lines. It is better to seek out even common troops over them, or utilize different minor factions.

[@italianspartacus]

So unfortunately... I checked this with v1.2 just today... Because I noticed the same last night after I kept playing.. They look entirely different, more light skirmish cav. I'm not sure if that means they're changing the cav to fit that role or not. Like entirely different models. So I apologize for the misinformation man

[@italianspartacus]

So unfortunately... I checked this with v1.2 just today... Because I noticed the same last night after I kept playing.. They look entirely different, more light skirmish cav. I'm not sure if that means they're changing the cav to fit that role or not. Like entirely different models. So I apologize for the misinformation man

[@ThisMagello]

@@italianspartacus Hey no worries. If you're aiming for minor factions like you said the Arboreal line is fantastic. And really the majority of minor faction units tend to be superior to common line soldiers in terms of skills and equipment, it's just these four that for some reason aren't. And the Eleftheroi are so cool too...

[@MetalGamer666]

Is this a bug? Like so many other stat bugs? Or is it intended?

[@michealbrambleby-shelford7974]

Can confirm batch upgrading is the way to go The only time I don't batch upgrade is when I'm besieging and I'm outnumbered, I'll upgrade a lot of my units before assaulting to ensure more survive the siege. Seems to work in my playthroughs. This strategy also really helps when facing larger armies in the field.

[@faustopancake234]

Wait, so you can fight minor factions and you wont get war declared on you by a major faction?

[@kylecarey4189]

All the minor factions start at war with the major ones that inhabit the same territory, as far as I know

[@WhirlwindOfWTF]

Minor faction, most if not all, are not a part of major factions at the start of game. Declare war early and you can avoid war with a major. Check encyclopedia to see if they are currently part of a faction

[@faustopancake234]

@@WhirlwindOfWTF ok, but if they are allied/mercenary with a major then "their" major will declare war on you?

[@faustopancake234]

@@WhirlwindOfWTF ok, I fired up the game and see what you mean now. Thanks for the reply!

[@faustopancake234]

@@kylecarey4189 thanks for the reply!

[@Zashzila]

How do shops work with gear? Also are workshops bugged atm?

[@italianspartacus]

No! They're working but some produce more or use less resources than they should.. An ironmonger produces armor, clothier makes clothes.. It'll say what the byproduct of the workshop is when you select it in the town :)

[@calinpetrescu9128]

Only 100 hours? those are rookie numbers gotta pump those numbers up

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

I prefer not putting much time on it since it has so many features missing, not only does it get boring after a while but I feel like it won't be as good of an experience later when more stuff is done.

[@italianspartacus]

Over!! Over 100!! Just.. Let me play with my friends dad!!!!

[@calinpetrescu9128]

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j ROOOOOKIIIIIEEEEEE

[@MetalGamer666]

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j It's still plenty fun!

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

@@MetalGamer666 battles imo must be more interesting with more and better AI tactics and sieges need to be fixed in multiple ways. Also, custom battles need to be much more customizable with lan/multiplayer support.

[@karanvirchauhan1895]

Any tips on how to earn money? My clan tier isn’t high enough to join a faction, and my army consists of 35-45 men across the different tiers 1-5/6.... I’m not strong enough to take on any nobles parties or large bandit parties so I’m stuck fighting looters and what-not... I can barely afford to pay for food and for my troops daily wages... (I never have more than 700-800 gold at a given time).... Im 10-12 hours into the game and haven’t even bought a new weapon, I’m using some damaged sword that I got from a bandit chief.... I might need to re-roll my character again..... FML...

[@jaronzennaiter]

Is this gsme finally out yet?

[@acenine8149]

Does it matter if the minor clans become vassals or mercenaries of a kingdom? If I start fighting with a minor clan that’s allied to a kingdom, do I also go to war with that kingdom?

[@johnsalamon4850]

If the minor clans become vassals of any faction and you attack them, you start a war with that faction that they joined. Ex: lake rats join northern empire as a vassal/merc, you attacked them> you basically declared war on the northern empire.

[@kameng12]

Yep found this out the hard way and had to pay a fortune for peace because you can’t become a vassal to faction if you are war with someone they are not at war with.

[@stuffilike4343]

I tested and can confirm that even if they are a mercenary for a larger faction you will still be at war with the larger faction.

[@DerekEklund]

This is the best channel for info on this game, hands down.

[@italianspartacus]

Dude thank you.. Best compliment ever. I have a close friend with the last name Eklund! Great legacy

[@Kishandreth]

I've refined batch recruiting a bit. After making my own kingdom and realizing there's a edict/law that lets you add +80 to your party size; I realized that recruiting that many new recruits was not ideal. My current strategy is in times of peace, recruit 30 or so, add 30 cavalry to the party and garrison the rest of the troops, and stash most of your stuff except 30 horses for the recruits and some food. Leaves you with an army of 60 (looters surrender less often then they do against an army of 240) and I was getting a 6.5 movement speed. Attack looters, send in the recruits, end the battle and attack looters again until all 30 are ready to level. Either continue leveling or accept that the first specialized level is good enough (infantry or archers for imperial). While Looters and bandits may not be the best way to level, it saves a lot of recruits until they hit that first upgrade. I'm currently running around with 120 Bucellarii in party and 20 Bucellarii and 20 Palatine Guards in each garrison. However, this may be revised, I haven't really utilized companions as party leaders. I may set up each of my companions with a full party of Bucellarii and have them as part of an army. I have noticed that without batch leveling it can take a long time for a single unit to level. When 30 recruits are fighting looters and getting 4 to 6 levels each battle it allows for the whole lot of them to get better quicker. I figure that each recruit that kills shares it's xp with all the recruits. Meaning that recruits will level faster when there are more of them to kill, and slower when competing for kills with stronger units. I'm thinking my goal for an army is 120 Bucellarii, 80 Palatine Guards and 40 Legionary. At least until I see how obscenely large the party can get.

[@seylawaldron]

what wat the actual fuck you can fucking move that shit to reserve when besieging?!?!?!?!? I always get my shit destroyed bc the A.I builds all 4 before you even get one up lol. God dam game changer when attacking castles since a.i is too dumb to use all 3 ladders on the siege towers and just clump up/die bc they don't know how to give space to each other. This changes everything.

[@Ionenkanone1]

I have 130 hours and love the game and I know it is EA but my major problem atm is the broken skillsystem, companions with ridiculous things like 180 medicine and 2 intelligence are just dumb I mean how the fuck did he become a doctor? Also the skill and attributes overall are not really flavored, for example I find it dumb that a Engineers doesn't have a basic understanding in smithing or a scout come without any endurance skill. The skills should be a bit more in line with what they are, I mean I had a Battanian Scout without the forester Perks in scouting and Bow that sounds dumb imo.

[@joncodre2807]

BRO!! i found this game thanks to you, and a big " Thanks bro" to you. im absolutely loving it!, for me its just... the game i been looking for. As for your tips and guides... wicked man, they on point and i appreciate you sharing your hours of experiance with Bannerlord which saves me a lot of learing curve time , with the limited time i have thses days to game. Cheers bro, legend.

[@theoutlander2873]

The music in this game sounds so similar to the Conan theme. Thanks for the tips.

[@MetalGamer666]

I love them both!

[@doggiestdoge3576]

A friend of mine who played the beta told me to buy A lot of javelins like jeered when it comes out so I did. It was 1760 gold, now after the patch it's now 67k . I almost bankrupt the whole continent thanks to him and the stupidity of Talesworld for updating it like they did in the beta. It has ruined the game for me now even If i have millions of gold early on. Why TW!

[@QualeQualeson]

The mercenary arrows don't do blunt damage anymore, at least they didn't when I discovered that strat was a fail about 3-4 days ago. I don't know if this is a bug or if they intentionally changed it, but I hope it's a bug. I don't see what harm this option did and it's nice to have as many different avenues as possible in a sandbox. I also have a tip. This might be readily apparent to a lot of people, but personally I tended to ignore them in the beginning because I thought they were too weak to consider. Not true! *Peasants* are excellent units. With just a tiny bit of tactical managing, they demolish looters and can even handle mountain bandits quite well if they outnumber them. And the best part: Not only don't they cost anything to recruit, but they don't even ask any wages. This is golden in the beginning. Also, since you can easily replace lost ones by killing more looters with prisoners, you don't care so much that you get casualties, which is also nice.

[@Mad_Mally]

Do you purchase your skills in the game, I've been playing for two days and I can add focus points but I can't the skills under whatever category I'm leveling. For example under one handed the shield bash ability looms to be unlocked but the one above it is locked and says I need 25 skill to unlock, however I have like 43 in one handed.

[@Dunkurtin]

Have you thoroughly tested the xp gain for ransoming different kind of troops? Because based on my experience with it, unless it changed this week, you do seem to get xp that scales similarly to the value of ransoming the troop.

[@italianspartacus]

Unfortunately yes.. I was testing with looters, heroes, and higher tier units.. Heroes give more but not substantially enough to warrant farming them at a reliable pace

[@Dunkurtin]

@@italianspartacus damn I guess they changed it. The last time I looked at it properly myself was over 2 weeks ago now that I think about it.

[@siddharthchoudhary4278]

@@italianspartacus Can you please provide the code for the banner in this video. Really love it and want it for the next playthrough.

[@EricHockridge]

Solid tips, I gotta ask though. How is your banner so... LIT my guy

[@italianspartacus]

Hahahaha it's from the subreddit BannerlordBanners! :)

[@EricHockridge]

@@italianspartacus Cheers! you are a warrior and a scholar

[@DarlinaLTesh]

Wow, that siege engine trick is amazing! :D I had no clue that's possible. Always had my stuff nuked to shreds because defenders built up so bloody fast.

[@RellshouldBsleep]

Is this game dead I know I'm kind of late to the party here but all the KZbin videos are from 2 or 3 months ago from everyone and i have just about watched them all everyone's bannerlord tips Playlist and no one has anymore content

[@italianspartacus]

nope! we're all waiting for the next patch :) there is a lot of promise in what's coming, which should really be any day now, so i think msot of us are waiting to re-roll our characters until then - i know i am! i'm continuing to make guides/videos though so i promise i'll still be covering it!

[@RellshouldBsleep]

@@italianspartacus That's another problem I have, all the information I'm getting is outdated I have no idea how to make money now lol

[@Jafmanz]

@@RellshouldBsleep Taleworlds website lists all changes in every patch.

[@zanzalin]

So I found out you can exacute prisoners that are characters... any chance we can get a video explaining what it effects and when we should do it? Lol Ive wiped out 3 clans already just killing everyone I capture but boy is ther a never ending war now with the monguls.

[@1Mutton1]

OMG thankyou.....I was hating the fact that I had to attack straight away with siege engines.....makes them useless as the AI build them so much faster. Reserve by default would be so much better.

[@andrewpatrick7267]

What I did was tournament, tournament, one after another. Then went for a 40-50 cavalry army and just raided caravans from nations cared little for. Made about a million so far from that. Have some pretty high armor.

[@allisterforest1842]

can anyone help me figure out how to keep my Castles and Towns from constantly starving to death? I know you're supposed to max out food production in the Town/Castle management and I have done that. I even constantly babysit the attached villages and obliterate every bandit party I find no matter how small they are. Even beyond that I have gone around from town to town buying up all kinds of food and I dump it all into the starving town. This stabilizes the food a little bit and I have even gotten one of my towns up to a max food storage capacity. But as I sit and wait here I can see a steady stream of convoys come over and buy all that food up and my town is left back where it was. I just don't understand how to get on top of this and it makes owning fiefs pretty pointless and makes being an independent kingdom impossible since there's no way I can keep a good garrison

[@somnorila9913]

I don't like the farming part of the game and neither the personal combat. So i prefer to play with various mods that makes my character level up fast, train troops fast and heal with damage dealt or kills based on the medicine skill, as well the dismembered and hit multiple enemies mods. Turning my character a powerful hero, similar to a game i don't remember its name right now, chinese theme where you are the army general and can take on multiple enemies. A god on the battlefield basically able to sweep hundreds of enemies all alone. So gear doesn't really matter, i don't need it but still i can have top gear pretty easy, specially if i use the mod where executing lords they drop their gear, which by the way should be in game already, to be able to take their gear even without executing them. So it's cheap to get top gear because i skip over the unnecessary grind in this game. What i'm more interested in is the diplomacy and politics, the ability to take whatever roles and play as an emperor or a peasant, as well as the troop commands, the strategic part of the combat. All which are seriously lacking right now and to some extend doesn't really feel like they will be or can be considerably improved in one year or so until the early access ends. My impression right now is that the game will be as incomplete and lacking as M&B and Warband were at their time and you could argue how they are right now. I was really expecting a complete game with Bannerlord and not just an interesting concept and good baseline for mods to build on, of course in the limits of the engine and the modder's ability and capability which automatically means a somewhat negative impact to the experience. A full time working studio should really leave little to add to modders who do this more as a past time hobby. From this perspective i would say that the game is at most 20% finished right now and it would need way more that one more year until it's a full finished game.

[@achilleasfloudas1972]

Eleftheroi.... As a Greek your pronunciation of the name is killing me... 😂 Great video, Thabk you!

[@Egolithz]

Would be cautious in attacking all minor factions. Because if you form a kingdom, they are a decent source of manpower to compete/siege against bigger kingdoms. Once I got my first castle, I hunted down as many minor factions to hire as mercenaries. With that I had enough troops protecting my castle and with enough influence i could form an army to siege a city.

[@pavelivanov2999]

What i do, when i have just a few soldiers that i need to level up, is to assign them to a different group, such as 5 or 6 and attack small groups of bandits with only group 5 or 6 respectively. This way there is no one competing for the XP.

[@Lupus_01]

Companion respec ftw no more stupid healers woooooo Also a top tip for people trying to get married save scumming aside altering your appearance has way more effect than charm or relation. For example i got the i'm just not attracted to you line when attmpting to woo my intended. Reloaded my save pressed V changed my appearance i changed my skin type and added a fancy moustache and goatee. My chances were now better the conversation choices were different and unlike before she was now honoured to accept.

[@stevoooslp476]

The best Tip is learn how to fight in the practice mode in any Arena. Also have at least 40% Archers in your Army and place them always a bit higher so they can fire till your units attack the enemie. Good Video bro

[@ArkusVI]

Okay fellas I have a question. So I recently kinda stopped playing due to the Conspiracy quest line. I found out that it may not be finished yet so should I hop back on and not worry about it or what?

[@LeeeWai]

What attribute is important for army not running away from the battlefield? What orders are the best at the start of the fight ( like F1 + F3 to charge ) or shield wall ? what do you guys do at the start of the battle? I'm new to this game so I would appreciate some tips.

[@TheVeratrix]

Don't upgrade your troops 1 by 1 you say.... But how do I know how much experience I have and need to upgrade them all at once?

[@NTB-ClouT]

Question I’m kinda late on this video but new to the game so I made a party and gave her troops but after fights I can’t level them or nothing like that. Will the new party owner be leveling my troops and stuff like that or should I take them back and dissemble the party

[@Amazing20225]

Problem with the game is, it gets monotonous and boring once you form your own kingdom. Keep sieging castles over and over again till you conquer the map, ad nauseum

[@rajeshsaha5400]

These tips are useless for me.after 2 hour of playing my pc crush down.so i dont attack looters and bandits and gives auto attack so that i can take participant in big wars.hardly playing😓

[@stormworks4882]

yes wall assaults are sometimes bugged but do people realize that LVL 1 walls are easier to assault by ladder or siege tower than LVL 3 walls. also if the garrison size is small, a ladder assault is no problem. my personal method is build 4 terbuchet and knock a hole in 1 or both walls before the assault. then just walk inside the city. it does longer but you lose less troops.