How to RUTHLESSLY Maximize your TRADE Skill - Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord Guide

[@Halcylion]

If you wish to become a Badass Mercenary instead, my newest video explains that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5aWgX6kh6-Zgas

[@ZephrymWOW]

Just so you know "the exploit" is not an exploit at all lol. The most they could do is nerf experience gains to not happen when the vendor has no money. But that would only happen if people who have no experience with economics start complaining loudly and doesn't really "fix" anything. Price manipulation / fixing has been a thing since currency was invented. Selling at a loss / flooding markets is a real and very effective strategy if you know how those resources end up getting used.

[@Alrion1704]

19:00 didnt paid attention got in a fight 250 vs ~1200, 10 man lost, but had to pull back and reengade 30 times to jut get the 150 cav down solo. no fun

[@plebisMaximus]

Caravan scamming is a stroke of genius. Your guides are amazing, man.

[@Halcylion]

DO NOT REDEEM THE CARD!

[@SpyInDisguise1]

I genuinly just came by your channel like 8 hours ago thinking "Damn it's been quite a while since Halcylion uploaded something" and now I see this in my feed. Love your content, you're by far the best when it comes to real in-depth guides.

[@atxm]

i swear this guys a genius. I never would of thought to attack a rebel city so no one declares war or to scam caravans by making them think they scammed you: con the con man as they say. Truly the greatest mind of the century lol

[@Halcylion]

Rebellion is romanticized as "the only way for people to free themselves from tyranny", but in this case, the rebels went from bad... To much, much worse. They could've avoided famine and death by just staying loyal to their new masters, but hey, at least they died free.

[@EdwynEmbers]

How to scam a caravan?

[@LegendaryZet]

@@Halcylion Considering that you sieged them because they didn't rebel fast enough, I don't think they had a choice in the matter.

[@ossamaosman6314]

My guy, your editing and script writing skills are getting seriously good. Even if it takes you 3 months, I'm here for every upload.

[@z34rk79]

The random added clip of Grounded almost broke my brain wondering if I actually saw that, and indeed I did, a nice way to describe *perspective*

[@metalprime94]

I actually ground my way up to Trade 300 semi-recently with conventional "trail trading" only (...some global trading thanks to cheap Battanian wood). It... wasn't all that bad with a large retinue, tbh. Think grand total of less than 10 ingame years, including two years where I didn't do much of anything, so... maybe 7 to 8 if you're more efficient than me at it. That said, this method sets you up for more in the future than mine, so... not a bad way to go.

[@Awesomewithaz]

My man rush riding using horse archery and then get the perk to reduce herding then buy all horses and dump them somewhere that demands horses and you can get the first 100 levels in like 2 towns

[@metalprime94]

@@Awesomewithaz I'm usually a horse archer, yeah. Solid playstyle all around, though horse crossbowman is looking a bit appealing recently. I've actually gotten two different characters up to Trade 300 before, first one was pretty much all horses like you're saying and took... well over a decade, think maybe two. Long enough Caladog died of old age. Second one where I didn't *touch* horses and focused on movement speed took half the time at most. I think I could speed that up to 6-7 years if I go almost exclusively cavalry and stuck with a Battanian character.

[@findiwindles]

Machiavelli would be so proud. Great video, as always.

[@ing32]

this video is incredible. for the amount of views it has is mega incredible. wish you the best.

[@Halcylion]

Thank you, good sir!

[@mitchellalien]

I really dig your style man, and you've got a great voice for videos, BZ and keep it up!

[@brokentoes6721]

I would rather see his series take over the lands, but i still enjoy his content.

[@Halcylion]

The series will continue until morale improves

[@aliacikgoz9995]

Thank you for the guide!

[@Halcylion]

Thank you for watching! :)

[@SincoolKira]

I haven't played Bannerlord in years but your content is super educational and also entertaining, keep it up man :D

[@SincoolKira]

@@Liberum2021 so what

[@SincoolKira]

@@Liberum2021 it was early access for a long time, check vids on this channel by date for first bannerlord vir

[@SincoolKira]

@@Liberum2021 may 2020 was the last time I played bannerlord. That's over 2 years now. So yeah, I haven't played in years.

[@Liberum2021]

@@SincoolKira XDD ok so looong so many years :D

[@SincoolKira]

@@Liberum2021 I don't see your point, why did you make a comment M

[@SliceA1A]

"Six hundred and nice." Liking the video in return for a good belly laugh

[@barniespacullie3812]

Great work once again. Great takes too. Cant argue with a single thing you said.

[@roffels11-gamingandhistory69]

An impressive video, which even now has a lot of valuable information. ^^

[@anderdelsilencio5346]

Loved this tutorial, Bannerlord is my favorite current game

[@kjscfc1863]

My god what a graft!! Fair play though mate you know your shit! I'm on 93 which feels like it's taken an eternity..

[@AlpaChino393]

Been watching through all your Trader Stories recently and I think you do a fantastic job at editing them and your scripts are always really tight. I’m really looking forward to seeing more from you in the future. Especially if you plan on making any other themed series.

[@Halcylion]

Well, you may already be aware of my ongoing Bandit-themed series. :)

[@AlpaChino393]

@@Halcylion Aware and loving it, brother. Much love from the US! 🤘

[@Halcylion]

In regards to Prerequisite #1, Trade 275 is only a guideline. If you do everything correctly, you can lower that prerequisite to 250, maybe even go as low as 200. It took me 2 in-game years to go from 0 to 250, so it's not that difficult. (edit 9/3/22) In unrelated news, I just launched a Patreon page: www.patreon.com/halcylion Contributions are appreciated, but not required. My content will always be free. :)

[@messer_sorgivo]

LOL it took me like 7 hours to be 140 hahah

[@adrianalcott3847]

This was a really amazing video, such a genius plan , everyone should watch this whether where they like the method or not , it is like a short film , where a great scam( of century ) is explained. 👍😄 This is definitely not an exploit by the way.

[@alekseykuleshov111]

Its almost something from ymfah’s realm of “guides”. Sooo elaborated that watching it been done by somebody is actually more entertaining then trying to repeat it, imho. I’d rather straight up conquer all towns, but video was fun)

[@Halcylion]

The guides I make are elaborate playthrough videos with the viewer as the main character. You don't need to re-enact them, but if you want to, you know what you need to do. :)

[@sultanhamzah8974]

hi halcylion, glad your making a new video

[@sultanhamzah8974]

so i think im going to do this lol,become ragnar lodbrok

[@browse7288]

Hal, I have an idea for a trader campaign. So basically, get a monopoly on one of the workshop goods. In my playthrough, a brewery was the most profitable so I'll use it as an example. Purchase all the breweries with the biggest profit but leave one workshop slot. Then travel through Calradia and change the breweries into something else, it doesn't matter what exactly, as long as they're not breweries anymore. At some point, there will be no other breweries except for yours and viola! You have monopoly on beer. From previous experience, I managed to get around 500~450 denars per brewery! Though I'm not sure if it's going to work on newer versions

[@shark3922]

and i have almost 1k dinars for brewery.. other side of this - beer price is gone to 350 when no breweries. with author idea put all workshops in world to brewery, stock beer, then change breweries, wait for price and sell to caravans.

[@Mrelephanteatingman]

As always, will never do this but love the guide and your style

[@filipkudelka7595]

Yet another amazing video. Keep up the good work ❤️

[@alexandersen1987]

I love these videos

[@puppykitten4779]

You just gave me some idea on what to do irl, thanks a bunch

[@thomasknight-wagener6630]

cheers bro this is exactly how i play the game, except for the epic trade scam at the end... perfect execution

[@gatsunoir]

great guide; will probably never follow it since too tedious but great pearls of wisdom and fun ways of presenting. I like all your Vids / guides / sagas on Bannerlord. Great entertainment (and strategies)

[@Halcylion]

It's a bit convoluted, I admit, but anybody can pull this off by just playing the game normally. Then again, it's a bit more fun to be a raider who doesn't bother with economics.

[@MrEmpify]

That level of scamming should have instantly brought you to Roguery level 200 Personally to get to level 300 I just obtained an overabundance of desert and Aserai horses and circled mostly the western side of the map (at 2.1 speed) until the prices rose significantly enough to make 200-1000 denar profit per horse. The "Filled to the Brim" perk from Riding, "Arenicos' Horses" from Steward sure help, if you can get Steward that high by that point. Not sure if the "Local Connection" perk from trade applies to horses as well as any other animal or if it just on its own, but if it does..more money.

[@Halcylion]

Local connections, to my knowledge, only affects the prices of hogs, sheep and cows... Not mules and horses. But to be honest, I've never actually tested it, so I could be wrong.

[@neonboss7175]

I can only handle a 100 men, just started and I'm only killing bandits so I don't think I'm going to do any of this, but this is quite an entertaining tutorial to watch because "chaos is a ladder, you only need a little push and... did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?"

[@Daggz90]

The Emperor of the French - Napoleon Bonaparte, would be very, very proud of you.

[@NosyNorseman]

And i would like the possibility to be a rich merchant who build his own town 😎

[@Halcylion]

Can't do much building... only buying and upgrading works.

[@gratchy]

fantastic video as always!

[@dustincamargo6050]

Its unbelieveble how much knowledge you have in this game! I do know little the series and how it works but can you do all those steps without entering 1st/3rd person mode? I mean, while trade goods or even when you fight someone or something. For me if you put some "action" in those videos, like those on raider leader would be really nice!!! You're amazing, man!

[@fleivor5359]

18:54 dunno about that one, last night i took the last sturgian city, fought 3 waves of lords and an army before my camp was even set up, had 250 fian champions and split them in two groups, if you place them in oposite sides they will turn the enemy into swiss cheese, if infantry charges a group order them to fallback and they will go after the other group as the first group still shoots them, keep circling around them and the ai breaks, they will be going back and fourth not knowing what to do, the reinforcements retreat after you deal with the first group

[@loonie5468]

Just in time for me resuming my playthrough, where I managed to split off from Vlandia and am currently eyeing some tumoltous Battanian towns to exploit and get that 300+ Trade!

[@thetaikonaut8397]

I maxed my guy to 300 Trade, Charm and Leadership. He conquered the entire continent.

[@Halcylion]

Social is OP, just like in real life...

[@ephoo4609]

bro is a menace to calradian society

[@Toxo]

Thank you for this, and all of what you do!

[@chefbezos.]

I don’t own this game yet but damn you made this captivating

[@BlackIjs]

The grind is real.

[@xavierklassen7849]

Love the content!

[@faruqakmal1146]

Liked and subscribed 😏

[@DderwenWyllt]

Everytime I come back to play bannerlord I end up spending a day and a half just watching Halcylion, so I know which tips are no longer relevant from last years playthrough and learn new tips about how the game works this year. I just wish they would allow us to passively reach 275 trade with caravans and workshops and then makes us grind the last 25, I really hated running around Calradia for 25 years trade nuking every town while trying to secure my place in a kingdom. By the time I unlocked the perk last time, I had just a few years to play hot potato with castles and towns until I got the ones I wanted and then died of old age, allowing my son to inherit them, and finally I could start playing the game... Unfortunately I spent too much time trading and by that time the kingdom I had joined was on its last legs and those castles and towns my son inherited were lost as Battania was hung drawn and quartered by the other kingdoms. I don't think I'm going to use this exact method from the video, it is far too complex and if I wanted to commit crimes against humanity I'd play some Rimworld, but there are some gems in there I can use to speed up my grind significantly. I'm going to experiment with supply chain shenanigans, although dates are an odd trade item they might be a gold mine if you wipe out supply successively and hoard them, then dump them onto every caravan and town you see, with the recent economy changes I can see supply and demand playing a much more exciting role in trade.

[@Halcylion]

As of patch 1.8, leveling skills seems to have become a lot easier. I haven't tested trading recently, but I think that if you just trade normally, you can max out your skill in 2-3 in game years without any other shenanigans.

[@adventuresofziggydude7176]

What a great video, I like you, i give you like!

[@TheManofthecross]

what I found works and this works if you have wemod active is the inventory number does not decrease cheat which you need at least 2 or more items in your inventory and as long as it does not drop to zero or do it smartly with it there to retain it after doing that drop the price of all items in a town to such low levels that you can only dream of net you the cash if you space it out enough turn off that cheat buy the stuff at that one city dirty cheep and sell it in any other city for easy trade xp since the price in the one city you did that in had goods for such low levels (i got it as low in the single digits even to almost low as 2 to 1 coin for food products) making profits is easy but also over time the other merchents will buy the stuff and spread it out through the land especally if you have done massive food drops to get it up in to the hundreds of thousands range they will buy it at 100 each and drop it off in each town to ensure that it will keep the prosperity up on the slow but gradual swing for a long time to come and a massive surge in quick sucession at the city you dumpped the food at. :)

[@Dentakill]

as a greek I really appreciate the malaka reference

[@vanthomias5538]

39:00 the village-non-profit-method lets you level your trade skill way above the level you can get with the caravan-big-profet-method. Because it uses the skill multiplier of your current level. Wich makes me think: how far can you level? ... eventhough it is not that beneficial to have an even higher sell-tax-reduction

[@vanthomias5538]

btw I love this video

[@Markos2007]

Single-handedly made me pick bannerlord back up

[@Uzzgub]

A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne

[@Uzzgub]

p.s. I love the name you choose 😀

[@Halcylion]

Kal worked so long for Rogue Traders that he chose to become one himself.

[@lflammia1]

Masterplan! The only thing is that it's not realistical is that caravan accept to buy from you , for the rest is an awesome story and plan!

[@Halcylion]

Mine is an offer that the caravans cannot refuse.. because just under the "Let's Trade" button, there's the "Gimme all you've got!" button, and they know that, at least on a subconscious level. But some of them can be quick and manage to sneak a few goods past you, so there's always a chance for them to profit.

[@МихаилРадулов-й4т]

Great video. Btw do you believe TW will do some work arounds before the final version for the well so far scripted and stale rebelions , like i know which towns will rebel in every game so i just pick the character culture i would like to start from on the map.

[@madjack7777]

How to fix food problems? Easy, become cannibals.

[@kiethmergard]

In theory, you could go into the character sheet files and rewrite your states. At least, that is possible in warbands. I'm not 100% sure if it is able to be done in Bannerlords. If it is, it is possible to cheat without enabling cheat mode and still start the game with max trade and other skills.

[@ionelsaracin4194]

Great video

[@marcellussucc]

so much effort and love went into making of this video, respect

[@banished341]

You should call this the "Nestlé Trading Method"

[@daviddavidson505]

I will never feel guilty about exploiting to max out trade skill as long as "operating caravans" does not, as the in-game tooltip clearly states, reward trade experience.

[@LegendaryZet]

I did it. I finished one run of siege trading or more like finishing it. I've earned 200 000 denars so far. I'm never going to try to aim for 300 trade skill ever again. The grinding, oh god.

[@Halcylion]

Do you have 10 points in Social? Because I struggled a lot to max my trade with just 8 points and could only reach 299 after 3 siege trades, but as soon as I got SOC to 9, it got super easy. I imagine with a fully maxed social you can be a lot faster.

[@LegendaryZet]

@@Halcylion Damn, that explains it. I do have 10 in soc, however it still takes far too long time lookibg at menus over and over. Imma do the raider playstyle than the trader. I mean, my characters is at 50 years of age and I have no kids because my wife couldn't give birth. Now I have to hope I survive till my son get's of age.

[@Halcylion]

@@LegendaryZet if your guy dies before his son is grown, you can play as his wife

[@LegendaryZet]

@@Halcylion Good to know 👌 Sad that the whole trade skill will be wasted though :(

[@LesserScholar]

Fun video, thanks for making it! The part where you sell equipment to the city to make them unable to trade with the caravans was really smart. I wonder if the town prosperity has an effect on your markups after you starve them? You got really good markups in Lageta but that is a low prosperity town so maybe it could go even higher?

[@Halcylion]

That could be the case... I only kept an eye on grain and it went no higher than 97 in every town I besieged. From my observations, prices are similar in every town, with small variations here and there depending on their pre-famine economy. On another topic, congratulations on beating the Speedrun record! :)

[@LesserScholar]

@@Halcylion Thanks! There is probably some maximum price for each item then.

[@rezeik1374]

Thx for the video, your guides always help. I juste have one question; is smithing still worth it in the actual state of the game, or does it take too much time and ressources?

[@Halcylion]

Smithing is still overpowered, yes. It's a bit more difficult to obtain expensive blueprints, but when you do, they still fetch 50k each.

[@adeptusshitpostes7639]

Informative and entertaining video,good job,μαλάκα!

[@Halcylion]

Thank you, μαλάκα!

[@angryvoices177]

μαλακα?

[@gghanoj3679]

Keep up the good work!! Btw will you do a campaign or stick to good tutorials?

[@Halcylion]

I already got a bandit campaign going. Here's the first episode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3TIm5ybeNB3sJY

[@gghanoj3679]

@@Halcylion ok cool imma watch that

[@emrysmyridden]

question do caravans slow down when you dump that much crap on them?

[@Halcylion]

Caravans do slow down if they're carrying too much, but in the case of this video, you sell them 50 sacks of grain and they have no more money, and that doesn't slow them down too much.

[@pendantblade6361]

It takes a while for Halcylion to drop a guide but when it drops it's gold.

[@bloodwynn]

Pure genius.

[@richardmccann9293]

Unfortunately, the last step where you reduce a town's loyalty to zero by buying out all their food stocks and waiting for them to get pissed off just doesn't work anymore. The absolute second you buy out all their food, villagers or a caravan will enter the town and just sell everything they have in terms of food, often completely refilling their food supplies within seconds. It can take a few solid days for the loyalty to deplete from no food, and yet in the space of one day, 20-30 villagers/caravans can enter the town and sell their food to the town. I've tried buying out the freshly supplied food the moment they receive it before the town has a chance to eat any of it, but it just takes so damn long. Too frustrating to do. I spent almost an hour doing this and I almost ran out of money =(

[@GammaFields]

This makes me think it may he possible if someone were to go to war with every faction

[@GammaFields]

Which is possible with the diplomacy mod you can send messengers

[@AntinoriGuido]

hi Man!! great content, best bannerlord on youtube! I just returned to the game after seeing your bandit's ballad series (waiting for ep 7) quick question though, I found very difficult to route enemies, looters and villagers.They all wanna fight until the very end

[@Halcylion]

Enemy morale has been improved in a recent patch and now they'll fight almost until the very end. What I do to rob them is hit them hard and fast, stick close to the enemies (archers usually, when I rob caravans) and when you hear someone scream something like "I'm not dying here right now!", IMMEDIATELY order all your men to stop shooting and move away, so the enemy cowards survive. Escort the runners to the edge of the battlefield, and when they're out of harm's way, tell your men to resume the fighting.

[@wasser4081]

great video, thanks for your effort! do you know if it works in 1.8.0?

[@Halcylion]

I have not tested this method in 1.8, but one of the things I noticed in this update is that it's easier to level up your skills, so perhaps you no longer need to go through this overly elaborate method to maximize your trade skill. Maybe you can do it quickly just by doing regular trade runs.

[@bloodyassaultron]

well i saw a town get sieged 3 times before it could recover, then it finally rebelled 300 men and i had 100, all I did was starve them for 30 days....

[@TheUwaine]

I don’t understand why you get trade skills by selling items to the near by village. Does the profit they make count as your profit?

[@Halcylion]

Skill is developed by potential profit, which you can see reflected on the village's side with a -1000000 or something like that. In a city, prices of items drop the more you sell, but in a village (or at caravans) the price stays the same, and in the village, your potential profit is the highest. Perhaps they've fixed this, but even if they didn't, you actually lose a lot of money if you do it. It's something I only recommend if you don't care about the money and just want to save the time.

[@jakubdipcar595]

Evil genius

[@lofwyr5063]

It's an exploit (IRL, the people could barter with the equipment for some grain, and simply refuse to sell to you any more IRL, and ask for help from others, perhaps resulting in a coalition and subsequent punishment against you), but it's also a just reward in a videogame that eats time and craps out dopamine or whatever the reward stuff is.

[@Halcylion]

Unfortunately for the people of the town, Caravaneers are not interested in equipment, because they will sell it for half the price, and then whatever profit they made from the overpriced grain would amount to nothing.. therefore, there's no incentive for them to do so.

[@paddotk]

Step 1. Get 1 million denars. Step 2. Lean back, seeing as you're already rich. No need for getting 300 trade skill.

[@RobertMunteanu105]

So basically, just speaking in terms of "Trading levels" and disregard gold completely, I can just sell whatever is profitable to caravans and villages. Nice!

[@tsk5328]

I dont think this is an exploit. my definition of a exploit is exploiting the games limitations and bugs to get an advantage that the ai cannot gain within the rules of the world. the carvans are coming to this town for the same reason as you, only difference is you have first movers advantage and are controlling the market they are coming to. the starving towns folk would be buying weapons as a city in this situation would be beset by waves of banditry and crime as its citizens start robbing each other to get food or in hopes of joining any war band where they hope to get paid and fed. If i was a dev for this game and saw this I would immediately put it into the code that bandit parties start spawning from starving towns that have weapon stockpiles (and decrease the armoury size and residential pop of course) to simulate people turning to banditry in desperation. so yeah, fair and brilliant +1 sub.

[@Jimothy-723]

15:47 wouldnt it make more sense to seige trade to a caravan or village because then you can sell tens of thousands of items for profit without worying about reduced prices.

[@voiceactorofdovakiin]

I'm gonna help you beat it

[@KrippledKracka]

Was this on version Beta 1.8?

[@Halcylion]

yes

[@RadekZielinski.]

it's a bit disappointing, that you want the trade skill maxed out to never even try to siege, but to simply buy off your way. but then you see the ways to max it out by sieging multiple times to try to reach such level reasonably quickly.

[@nikollasassumpcao8006]

How do you even gain xp on roguery? I tried selling huge amounts of prisoners and looting villages, but its sooo slow

[@Halcylion]

Prison Breaks. 22:59 in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/faewnYp5rJuYaNE explains it in greater detail.

[@nikollasassumpcao8006]

@@Halcylion Thanks Halcylion!

[@kian3289]

wait.... you can put a village into debt AND gain income over time in bannerlord?

[@Halcylion]

It's not a lot of income.

[@kian3289]

@@Halcylion still, I didn't know you could set up a loan system by exploiting them like that xD

[@howtosuck8274]

Hell yeah

[@sasi5841]

The exploit relies on real world market mechanics. So trying to patch it will make the economy nonsensical.

[@Halcylion]

The only "exploit" in my method is the caravan scamming, which I rationalize like this: "Caravaneers hear about the lengthy siege, their eyes turn into dollar signs at the prospect of huge profits and they all ride out to sell their wares into the besieged town... But when they arrive at the gates, an army of 300 blocks their path. They try to squeeze their way in, because they know that the kingdom they belong to is at peace with the men blocking the gate, but as they try to walk in, the leader of the army approaches the caravan master and tells him: *I'm not letting you in unless you buy this grain. Don't worry, you'll still make a profit inside* . The caravan master doesn't really believe that, but what he believes even less is that he'll survive after refusing the murderer blocking the gates. So he pays an exorbitant fee, and when he's allowed inside... of course nobody can buy any of his items, because the rogue took all of their money. The caravan waits inside for a bit, hoping that someone sneaks them some money without anyone noticing, but it's all in vain; the rogue trader is too efficient in running his scam." If you are referring to the iron exploit however, that can be fixed without breaking the economy by just keeping the ore as an actual trade good with fluctuating value... And separating the crude, wrought and forged iron, as well as the steel, fine steel and thamaskene into 6 separate categories. Maybe also separate coal from wood, and then, give these smithing materials a fixed value that have no relation to each other or the iron ore. There's an item in the game called "spice", which has the exact price in all towns, so the devs can use that code to give smithing materials a fixed value. And that's how you fix the exploit without breaking your game's economy.

[@sasi5841]

@@Halcylion I was referring to the iron one. But the quantity of one form of iron has to be related to the other due to their similarities, so their price must be related as well.

[@roderiksworld5116]

QUESTION....Is there a way to arrange a marriage for a vassal? (specifically a companion turned into a vassal) Loving the vids bud!!!

[@Halcylion]

You can only arrange a marriage for your family members: brother, sister, children... Your vassals will probably make their own choices of who to marry, when the time is right.

[@roderiksworld5116]

@@Halcylion well dang. appreciate you clearing that up.

[@vmycode5142]

3:04 I want that :pleading:

[@Halcylion]

Do you also want to wait for 10 months until I finish that? Because just this 45 minute vid took 2 months of constant work. :)

[@vmycode5142]

@@Halcylion Hmm that would be a bit of a pickle... Perhaps not then

[@ImmortalJunior]

I have a question I can't quite find the answer for online If any chad knows the answer lemme know please x'D When you join a nation as a vassal over a long period of time, with high lord praise from most aswell as the main clan, the owner of the nation can you become the new ruler of said nation if they perished

[@johnnyd3387]

Yes

[@Halcylion]

Yes you can. This 50 second video will elaborate on that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bquxkKqgn5uAqMk

[@drackse1748]

hey, im back :D

[@alex-of5wd]

Elinara!

[@JefeGameplay]

good!

[@chikuman6224]

is this game good?

[@Halcylion]

Good or not is subjective. My honest opinion is that this game is good, but flawed, and not living up to its full potential. Mods (which I don't personally use but heavily recommend) can get it closer to that potential, if you have the patience to install them. One thing that's objectively true is that this game is not for everyone. It's best if you watch some recent reviews or let's plays to help you form your own opinion.

[@chikuman6224]

@@Halcylion i see , then what will u say about warband? the previous one did u like that one better than this new one?

[@LtVadim]

How to reach "Trade 300" Step 1: Reach "Trade 275" ....

[@Halcylion]

250 is enough, if you're efficient. Besides, going 250-300 takes as much time as going 0-250, if you do it normally, so this method still shaves off half of your grind... If you do it just once. But nothing stops you from doing it 5 times and going 0-300 in a few hours. :)

[@LtVadim]

@@Halcylion Just joking)) I actually reached 300 Trade in one of my runs (without abusing sieges). Turned out to be not as exciting as it looked beforehand. Lots of blacksmithing of elite-grade 2H-swords and lots of running around trying to find anyone who still owns anything. The game bugged and I couldn't even get married. So I became a sort of Mr. Scrooge.

[@Halcylion]

This is how I conquered Calradia in patch 1.4, but since then, giving lords overpriced swords has been nerfed.

[@metalprime94]

@@Halcylion Not as much as you'd think. I tried a (failed) playthrough where I used a similar version of that tactic. Ultimately worked. Grind out a few dozen swords (Broad Two Hander Blade, Winged Bronze Guard, Tall Plated Grip, Simple Wheel Pommel aka "Steel Winged Broadsword" for 13253 each using 2 or 3 Steel and 3 Fine Steel), then "harvest" the wealth of nations. Think it pulls about 1m every month, so that's about a city every half a year or so, or a couple of castles. Playthrough failed because I forgot about this thing called "recruiting lords", so got ran over by the Khuzaits, but if I'd found a way to marry a sibling into Monchug's family, wouldn't have happened anyway.

[@LegendaryZet]

I made a huge mistake. Ended up paying 8000 denars a day as tribute.

[@Halcylion]

declare war again and beat them until they pay you

[@LegendaryZet]

@@Halcylion It's two factions I'm going to war with. I went to war with the Aserai. I have a question, if I have not settlements, do I need to pay less in tributes? Edit: Like if I ask for peace, will they demand less or do I have to raid over and over until they give up?

[@Halcylion]

@@LegendaryZet They ask more money if you take towns from them, but not if you have towns. Conversely, when they take towns from you, they will lower their demands.

[@LegendaryZet]

@@Halcylion Oh, perfect. I'm so fucking dumb XD betrayed the southern empire and took Husn Fulq with me. The Aserai went to war with me too. No amount of save scumming saved me. In total I've paid 300k+ just to keep one town and one castle. Imma let thr Aserai take Husn Fulq, then sue for peace once tribute is low. Then do the same thing with the Southern Empire. Hope my caravans survive.

[@LegendaryZet]

@@Halcylion Thanks for clearing that up, maybe there is still hope for this grinding playthrough.

[@lordbread8102]

What is with all games caving in to current crap and losing all originality, and fun

[@Halcylion]

What do you mean? Mount and Blade is the definition of original, there's no other games like it...

[@emprerking1684]

😁

[@taylor0116]

Lol they way you say or describe things is hilarious

[@thebennixofpreuens1813]

hello there

[@Halcylion]

General Kenobi!

[@thebennixofpreuens1813]

You just mad my day

[@Uzzgub]

lol

[@mortache]

Capitalism go brrrrrr

[@Halcylion]

Crony Capitalism*

[@tsw6521]

@@Halcylion oy vey

[@Vatt-Ghern]

@@Halcylion Same thing really