M&B Bannerlord Is A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits - Infinite Money Glitch Is Broken

Mount And Blade Bannerlord Has finally released into early access after over 8 years of development and well the game certainly has some unique features and game balance. So today The Spiffing Brit is going to show off how Broken Bannerlord is by using an infinite money glitch / exploit to get over a million gold in a very short period of time. The Adventures of Spiff Brit are not over yet though as we have many more videos to come showcasing Infinite Army Exploits, Infinite Towns and oh so many more game breaks and glitches. So lets see if M&B Bannerlord Is A Perfectly Balanced game with no exploits or is giving players an infinite money glitch broken. I guess its up to a funny montage of exploits with a cheeky english brit to decide. Ok well it is certainly overpowered... Really really overpowered.
What you have seen here today is part of a fantastic perfectly balanced series on youtube where I go from game to game and break them with wacky exploits to gain things like unlimited gold. If you enjoyed this then be sure to check out more. The style is similar to RT game and callmekevin in parts. A large influence on this series has come from Valefisk and The Killian Experience.
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Title: M&B Bannerlord Is A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits - Infinite Money Glitch Is Broken
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[@RaphYkun]

Not only are you playing a mostly Pacifist character, you're demilitarizing all the cities by smelting their weapons

[@notspacekeeper]

Killing them with kindness.

[@Danceofmasks]

And then turning around and building bowmaking shops

[@thegreatestfallout1794]

*screams in American*

[@Meximagician]

Who knew beating swords into plowshares could be so profitable?

[@repechhi8928]

The god Spiffing Brit, does nothing by chance

[@rustyshackleford1508]

"I've never seen the Southern Empire lose a battle." Meanwhile in my game, Rhagaea, Empress of the Southern Empire, gets captured by Looters.

[@RinaSC1]

In my game every ruler got captured by Looters at least once xD

[@lordvanazir1007]

in my game the southern empire no longer exists. Glory be to the Khanate!

[@shane87smith]

Man, soooo many lords get captured. The highest group of looters I saw was 102... like wtf

[@deepspacelazarus7207]

In my game she's been captured (and freed herself) no less than 8 times. The southern empire also has been under attack from at least 2 empires at a time, at one point 3 and 4 empires, and yet they have maintained at least 6 cities.

[@liamwilson7549]

Lmao

[@Cosmic_Corpse22]

I love how the first "Exploit" is actually just what being a trade merchant is.

[@jamiehughes5573]

Scamming people and making profit, the true merchant way

[@mariaragonese2543]

I would almost agree with you except for the fact that most people are too stupid to be able to play these games. To the moron, efficiently navigating game mechanics is a form of cheating. In fact, using any tactics that deviate from running and gunning and breaking everything in sight is dishonorable. Corner camper they call me, I wasn't camping in the corner, I was camping in the window shooting all of your dumbass friends in the street and then I heard you're a loud ass come up with the stairs so I retreated to a more defensible position so I wasn't just standing out in the open like a f****** moron.

[@Maniacman2030]

Merchant/Salesman Ethos: _"A fool and their money are soon parted."_

[@dariusw1776]

"You can turn every game into a tycoon simulator" - The Spiffing Brit, somewhen in 2018 (I think)

[@AngelRaivan8579-xh4fr]

I remember this.

[@moopara7991]

M&B always had the economical sim side. But sadly the workshop exploit has already been patched out.

[@joshuakevinserdan9331]

@@moopara7991 what. Wow. M&B devs are really working hard.

[@Aalnius]

@@moopara7991 theres been like 4 different exploits based around the workshop.

[@christophercunningham8539]

too bad trade itself is broken. get trade high enough and you can legitimately buy almost anything for 1 denar...except prisoners ironically

[@sebbes333]

12:27 The smith is standing there, crying, as he sees you just melting down his newly finished sword that he spent several days on making & polishing.

[@Hust91]

Maybe he should've thought about that before he spent 400 gold on resources to make a 150 gold sword.

[@derpuck9769]

That'll teach him

[@robvinsky]

Soldiers: "where did all of the weapons go?" Spiff: "haha smith go fwooosh"

[@sakesaurus]

smithing furs

[@UpToSpeedOnJaguar]

When we say long awaited, we mean PEOPLE DIED waiting for this game.

[@SergePupko]

They clearly took example from Bethesda 🤣

[@lunaris3983]

@@SergePupko Except bannerlord actually lives up to expectations.

[@SekiberiusWelkesh]

@@lunaris3983 yeah, bethesda's really gone down hill since skyrim, i liked fallout 4 but it wasn't really a good fallout game.

[@RevanBC]

@@SergePupko More like took an example from Tool

[@deapdead]

Just A Potted Plant it does not actually

[@tobiaschristensen2691]

Spiff: game is in EA Spiff: this is perfectly balanced

[@comradeviper4054]

Spiff is sponsored by EA confirmed...

[@declancampbell1277]

Early access after 8 years. big OOF

[@tobiaschristensen2691]

I don’t know, if you followed the development of the game, but a fat while of the development time was focused on building an engine to support the game, as there aren’t any engines that supports 1000 man battles very well.

[@tobiaschristensen2691]

comrade viper game is in early access, not an EA title

[@declancampbell1277]

@@tobiaschristensen2691 i didnt really follow the development after the first few years but i imagine building a new engine would suck. i hope the updates keep being as constant as they have been because the game needs it. they need to eventually scale up the size of the seige battles though. its an entire battlefield in the early gameplay footage.

[@l3gionmusic814]

Bannerlord has no exploits: A.I. archers: Whatever you say sir.

[@RandomBJJGuy]

I keep seeing this but i dont get it. Archers miss all the time. If you are shooting high volumes at unshielded or receiving fire without a shield you would expect to be in danger, right?

[@S4RSZ]

I think you mean to say AI Javelins. These guys make an insane amount of headshots.. looking at you arena.. You can dodge them, but if you stand still they will insta headshot and kill

[@jaredrichter7086]

@@S4RSZ sometimes lol in my experience they like to miss

[@Gastell0]

26:44 - "My lord, this is not- Shhh, let him think whatever he wants', it is same horse and not a new one every time."

[@Lttlemoi]

I wonder if it's called Płotka in the source code.

[@Noils2]

an exploit i found gave me essentially infinite trade xp almost instantly and all you needed was a lot of money and a town. Step 1. Buy all misc goods in the market Step 2. Put all misc goods into your stash (for some reason the stash counts as a market) which will give you trade xp Step 3. take all misc goods out of your stash Step 4. Sell all misc goods into the market Step 5. repeat steps 1-4 for infinite trade xp (Note you buy the misc goods that you just sold) then from there you unlock the ability to barter for other peoples fiefs which is also broken as the lords value their fiefs at negative amounts so you can demand their fiefs in a barter and the will accept it even if you demand all their money with their land

[@asherdevin]

That's amazing

[@GoAway3729]

Spiff do this

[@mattgolka6266]

theres a stash? where is it?

[@shadow29livecom]

Is that using your town's stash?

[@malnutritionboy]

@@mattgolka6266 when you have a town

[@GGA007Gaming]

Horse archers are broken cause they were broken in real life too. Most people dreaded going up against an army of horse archers.

[@user-gh3dc7zh5y]

Ah yes the most perfectly balanced game in the world, life

[@splinte111]

You know they are attentive devs when these exploits gets resolved the day after the game released.

[@xtr33msk1ll]

Shake they do not adress the balancing issues... take to much time to grind up skills and u r screwed

[@alexwalker4177]

@@xtr33msk1ll They literally addressed snowballing issues in the past two patches. It isn't a problem that is going to be fixed in a day, give them time.

[@AtroFear]

@@xtr33msk1ll Have you even seen the patch logs? They are patching the game pretty much every single day, solving about 30-50 issues with each patch and also introducing new items into the game etc. They are extremely active on fixing stuff. You can't ask for more than what they are doing currently.

[@jacksonsteal7082]

@@AtroFear I could ask for them to release a functioning video game after 8 years of development

[@abobusik3000]

@@jacksonsteal7082 Just don't buy it then.Bruh.

[@lunaris3983]

Just remember: if you want to lay a trap for a wild Spiff, use an early access game as bait. He just can't help himself.

[@IY4N218]

"You'll never take us alive" "Oh I think I will" Proceeds to kill everyone anyway 🤣

[@TypetwoAbsolute]

Bugs: Asking your troops to do anything in a defending siege battle.

[@thomasrial4444]

Oh. My. God. Yeah...

[@will2brown50]

Idk I feel like there are orders that work for them because the AI manages fine and they operate using similar orders to what we have

[@CW-xd8lj]

use scatter on your archers, f1 - f6 i think. it'll spread your archers over the walls

[@tobitaktlos3241]

good bug: if you lose your companions because you got clapped, head to your fief castle (if u got one), then assign them to be a major there. They will automatically be at the castle and you can take them back into your party by clicking on them at the top. Repeat until you got everyone back.

[@Sartako]

@@tobitaktlos3241 Even better: Just don't get clapped. Thank me later, folks.

[@dekkonot]

"There's no reason to not auto-resolve every battle you're ever in." I think Ben would probably disagree.

[@bensharkslawyermasterofthe9694]

The great one shouldnt be spoken of in such context, that video was just a fever dream

[@BUSHBOY]

Dekkonot isn't this game all about the battles?

[@Robjec53]

@@BUSHBOY no it's about finance. Every game on this channel is about finance. :p

[@1stdragon123]

@@BUSHBOY i mean it can be a strategy game only if you want but 95% of the fun is the battles at least for me. Rest is just an interesting way to personalize the battles and make it mean more meaningful

[@TheVCAwards]

I auto resolved 20+ vs 3 and 8 good dudes died

[@randomspacemonster6796]

DEV: this game is about being a medieval warlord SpiFF: No...trader go Brrrrrrr

[@herrdrizzt9547]

Mules go eeeaah Sumpter horses go frrrr

[@toddofthelake1182]

@@herrdrizzt9547 hotels go trivagooo

[@resileaf9501]

A lot of medieval warlords were trade lords! Just look at Venice.

[@MrLaithtayyem]

In this dark quarantine, you, spiff, are one of the few light bastions on Earth Save us from our boredom with your excellent content!

[@MrLaithtayyem]

@@thespiffingbrit do you happen to have an exploit for unlimited tea since the market is closed?

[@jan-lukas]

@@MrLaithtayyem someone should make a tea Clicker (instead of cookie) and implement an exploit for infinite tea

[@rageixi1422]

@@MrLaithtayyem I have one ,it's called 'robbery' it's a hard exploit to pull off because if you fail your path will fail ,but it's worth to get all the tea . (Definitely not to blackmail spiff to make videos on topics I want)

[@aeryd4xx]

just go watch tommykay's banner lord streams

[@anthonyp3452]

@@thespiffingbrit You? My guiding light is the brilliance of Yorkshire Tea!

[@PhantomSavage]

1:17 I have never said "I want D" so quickly in my life. Is it bad I also bought this game because I almost intuitively knew Spiff would break it? My own discovered exploit: If you're confident in your combat abilities and/or you have really decked out weapons and skills that make you a beast on the battlefield, you can defeat armies easily twice your size or more. Once you've entered battle you can hit TAB and retreat instantly at pretty much any time you wish at no cost to you whatsoever, but any damages done to either sides forces or your avatar's health remain... however, what I've discovered is as long as your main character's health doesn't drop below 20% or so, he/she can always reengage in battle again. What this essentially means is, you can start a battle, leave your troops behind you, then run circles around your enemy and pick off stragglers with either a high-power bow or a nice lance/spear, and the second things start getting dicey you quickly retreat, reengage, rinse, and repeat. Every time you kill someone, they either remain dead or wounded/out of battle in the next cycle. Eventually you can just kill enough enemy units with enough hit and run tactics that it evens the odds between your mismatched forces until either an auto-resolve is much less risky or you just outright thin their numbers to your complete victory. TL:DR; If an army is bigger than you, attack with vicious and terrible waves of horse archers, kill units, instantly retreat (before falling below 20% health), rinse, repeat, and kill everything. You can hit them, they can't hit you. If it worked for Ghengis Khan, it can work for you too.

[@catboygremlin]

Guerilla warfare is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits

[@MaxVosWilliams]

Conquer all the land with your army of horse archers!

[@gabrielmelnik6796]

Yoi know the Mongols did this?

[@tonya8279]

*Approves in Genghis Khan"

[@ctmcreature]

Boi ive been doing this for 10 years in War Band! Its is honestly an OP strat

[@artificerdrachen6908]

Imagine an englishman in robes and his horse dragging a tonne of salt across Calradia.

[@darthpalpalzang7914]

GRAIIIIIIN!

[@cvlang06]

With spent tea packs strewn haphazardly in his wake!

[@BahamutEx]

There has to be fanart of this.

[@Zanta100]

Developer: this is a game about fighting Spiff: did yo say trading simulation?

[@creldest]

Intention: "I will drink from your skull!" Reality: *sips tea aggressively, East India intensifies*

[@angryce]

Too bad there isn't any bananas in the game

[@d1agram4]

The game is about what ever you want it to be,

[@JumalaPlays]

Har har

[@shifttheshaman]

I'm starting to think of Spiff as a Nerf-Surfer: roaring forward just in front of a thousand re-tweaks and bug-fixes.

[@dragondan244]

Hes the ultimate beta tester

[@doctorrexx2378]

He literally gets paid to break games by the maker of said games

[@9MRsatisfaction9]

is the workshop glitch fixed yet? seems not to work in my game =(

[@DeathEatsCurry]

"A true general doesn't fight his own battle" Alexander the Great has entered the chat.

[@kiddfool8163]

DeathEatsCurry Alexander the Great has exited the chat at age 32.

[@krixpop]

@@kiddfool8163 ....after creating one of the largest empire of the world (3rd place iirc) quite a chat exit ... AND at 32... honestly, what are our accomplishments at 32 ?

[@kiddfool8163]

krix pop That’s true if he would’ve live longer he might have conquered more land than the Mongols did in the ancient times. And his achievements are something to be very proud of but sadly he passed away young.

[@elinquisidorperseverante6835]

@@kiddfool8163 Charles XII of Sweden has joined the chat

[@krixpop]

@@kiddfool8163 agreed !

[@SuperDine123]

Spiff : "We hit the trading level of 66" Every soldier in the town : "GOOD SOLDIERS FOLLOW ORDERS"

[@liamwilson7549]

Lol

[@imperiusempire4698]

Execute trade level 66

[@juliomontega2868]

How to break the game: Step 1: Horse archers Step 2: Horse archers Step 3: Horse archers......

[@darionalvarez1328]

i prefer max Tier Ranged Archers on Foot and just retreat after the first couple shots... u can easily solo an 500+ army with 30-90 plebs that way .. On Foot cause they arent such a big target ... also you can just split the large archer group into 2-4 smaller forces and shoot them from all sides

[@alphaspartan]

That same 'horse archers are OP' bug plagued the real world for a few hundred years around the 13th century when the Mongols decided to take over most of the European continent... until the Western countries patched it by spamming luxury items to make everyone soft and easy to conquer with better technology.

[@phamthienphuc3951]

*laugh in South Empire *

[@Eyclonus]

Horses Archers were cheat code of medieval warfare.

[@raccman8294]

Then there's that awkward moment where you git curb stomped by heavy calvary.

[@tswims92]

The extra speed in forests is super useful.

[@samrester6254]

Just a PSA for those that are expecting to jump in and get rich quick. The workshop exploit was fixed 3 days before this video aired. Also, selling large amounts of one Trade Good in one place, lowers the buy price. You can actually see this as he is selling. The sell price listed, is dropping and he is getting less money. You can actually lose money by doing this. Just spread your sales around between a few places so as not to glut the market. But it did make for an entertaining video. Nothing beats "Spiff being Spiff".

[@albertonavarro8904]

I was going to say the same thing.

[@Falsimer]

I've never seen caravans (or villages) do this, so if I have a ton of flax to sell and an extra gold is 20% of my profits, I try to find a caravan that will pay extra for it.

[@NissEhkiin]

great... wish I had checked the comments before wasting my time

[@NukerMunkyGames]

@@NissEhkiin Well man, this whole video, while entertaining, essentially boils down to 'If you play the game as a Merchant, using the trade mechanics, you make money.' It's really not an exploit at all, and a lot of the things he suggests in this video you'd learn on your own after just a couple of hours of playing. On top of that he's doing a lot of this stuff wrong and making absolutely awful profit margins. What you really wanna do is run a massive circuit around the outer edge of the map, stopping in every major Town/City to buy and sell stuff at every stop. I love Spiff, but this video is just false advertising; The Game's Built in Trade Mechanics =/= Infinite Money Exploit. If you want a proper guide to Trading and workshops, and learn how to /really/ maximize your profits, i'd recommend looking up ESO's Bannerlord Videos/Playlist

[@commodorejones8044]

@@NukerMunkyGames The exploit was not in trading, rather that it started with trading. The exploit, as such has been patched, was in the workshops.

[@yaroslavtrotskij9181]

Developers: please, our game is in early access, so be gentle. Spiffing Brit: *exist. Game: *breaks.

[@manlymorow5496]

Yaroslav Trotskij game: *patched

[@UntarWow]

Developers love guys like spiff coz he actually finds the problems they want warly access players to find for them.

[@killercouper]

@@UntarWow almost everyone found these exploits ^^

[@maxmuller8633]

It have been 8 years.

[@maxmuller8633]

@Cameron Mendez One flaw:Too expensive

[@initialfaust6888]

you missed something. when selling materials from smelting you can sell them to caravans for insane prices sometimes and the prices on the caravan doesnt change until it reaches a town so if you save a shit ton of metals then find a caravan with stupidly high prices you can sell to them until they are almost out of money hit done exit out of the dialogue then click on them again and resell. the money in the caravan refreshes every time you exit out and i have seen some where they were buying steel for 400-500g and iron for 250. You can also use your companions in your party to smelt by just clicking the picture when you are in the smithy and switching to them which is really helpful with the smithing stamina crap. i would go around and kill the sea raiders or other higher level bandits because they give more weapons that smelt to steel and smelt everything in a town and while i was waiting for smithing stamina i would watch for caravans coming to the town. made it really easy to just stop waiting leave the town sell all the materials and go back to smelting.

[@SomeCanine]

I can just imagine the devs watching this with a notebook and pencil in hand

[@Hardolaf]

It was patched on day 2.

[@Kacper0Plazma]

They probably already did it. TaleWorlds: Give them Early Access Spiff: M&B Bannerlord Is A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits - Infinite Money Glitch Is Broken Players: Talking and buying this. Me: Happy Noise. TaleWorlds: Early Access Is A Perfectly Balanced Strategy With No Exploits - Infinite Testers who pay for testing.

[@The_Captainn]

The last week of patches have mirrored the mods being published that fix those bugs... I wouldn't doubt it at all if they watched this to see what they need to fix lol

[@Ralaigon]

Most of the exploits have been patched yesterday. Trading seems to be less profitable and workshops are almost useless now

[@Samisipi]

They withdrew the workshop "fix" in a later patch. My wood workshop made 77k/day after the patch but slowly decreased daily until it hit 150$/day.

[@Baudolino6135]

Spiff you windbag I just found one: on the "escort caravan" quests you can flood the caravan's inventory by trading with them and the added weight decreases their map speed and you still get paid by the day.

[@Taolan8472]

Oh that's cheeky

[@ChasishOnYouTube]

Don't you just get a lump sum for completing those quests though? The caravans have to deliver to 6 settlements for completion.

[@schleh5363]

@@ChasishOnKZbin i think its different each time scaling with reputation(?). Had the mission with only 2 towns and once with 3

[@ChasishOnYouTube]

Oh, I'm sure, but this dude is implying you can get passive daily income from those quests. I haven't seen that at all.

[@sventhestout3067]

For you to get a daily sum from a caravan it has to be your own. Escort caravan missions give you a reward upon completion. Also this wouldn't work for your own because your caravans do actually need to reach towns to make money.

[@elite6657]

City guards- “where did all our weapons go?” Spiff-“ ahh yesss lots of money”

[@thomaswilliams8270]

22:10 Auto resolving also results in far quicker progression for your troops and auto resolving against looters will only ever result in your troops being wounded - not killed. A bit of a swerve from the previous game where you avoid auto resolve like the plague.

[@jackson14431]

You still avoid auto resolve like the plague. Always avoid auto resolve like the plague. They still gain more xp if you start the battle and just sit at spawn after f1 f3.

[@rogaldorn7407]

@@jackson14431 you get an order of magnitude more experience from autoresolving. 10 looters might get 3 or 4 t1 unit upgrades in normal battle, but autoresolving will rarely give you less then 20.

[@robertdubois3448]

A bit of a bonus that I have noticed in my games is that auto-resolving also ends in more prisoners being taken.

[@captainseyepatch3879]

Sorry to tell you. This is just flat out wrong. You can totally lose people to looters, you just need to be facing a lot of looters.

[@robertdubois3448]

@@captainseyepatch3879 I haven't so far, but I also have not faced anything greater than slightly over 1 to 1 odds. With over half my force being veteran troops.

[@vaendryl]

"if you're REALY good at something, *anything*, you can make good money off of it. " "HAH! i bet you wouldn't be able to make money off of 20 years of QA experience!" Spiffing Brit: "Hold my tea."

[@charlieelder7439]

When we say long awaited, we mean PEOPLE DIED waiting for this game.

[@adamwash917]

take a shot every time he says "completely and utterly broken"

[@ladywaffle2210]

Not enough alcohol in my house

[@amatthew1231]

I got my daily gold change to be like 220k before they patched it

[@adamvejrum2097]

Ye I got 1 mil ever day before so I have about 274 mil

[@tinnmyskyewalker9264]

It’s already patched?

[@MrLogan2231]

It was one of the first things they patch back on the 2nd

[@Torsengi]

@@tinnmyskyewalker9264 they are all limited to give 200 gold per day at max

[@tinnmyskyewalker9264]

Oof

[@christopherschumacher1300]

spiff: is it a b c or d me as an intuectual : E! its E!

[@azsumbogoti6o]

nice job typing

[@KrypticWarrior2]

ironic

[@KarmasAB123]

"I literally hired them in a pub, knew them for a day, then said "Here, take 15 grand, find about 40 lads and go make me millions." So, it's a pyramid scheme? XD

[@serithlenigod]

Thank you spiff Edit: I take the thanks back, you can't pronounce aserai like that, ya stanky brit

[@serithlenigod]

@@thespiffingbrit yeah can't stay mad at ya

[@janetbland2216]

I can watch spiff exploit games, talk about the queen, and advertise tea for hours on end. 👽👽👽

[@BigBossIsMe]

And hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours

[@TylerTried]

You hear this tea companies? Sponsor this man.

[@FrogOnAHorse]

I'm starting to think Spiff is just hired by devs to find every possible exploit

[@natem1579]

They've already patched almost all of this so I wouldn't be surprised if they saw this.

[@killerx4123]

Thanks for releasing the "infinite money glitch" video days after its been patched.

[@chrisonserange2394]

The caravans still work ^^

[@killerx4123]

@@chrisonserange2394 yes but they are not some crazy exploit or bug. They are working as intended

[@killerx4123]

@Mina69a that's not the point of my comment? My point is dont put out false information. Getting money in the game isnt hard at all, but go putting out info days after it's been patched.

[@sh-bf7bv]

@@killerx4123 You are in the wrong channel if you wan't to find out about game breaking glitches.

[@killerx4123]

@@sh-bf7bv Really? The channel that has pretty much only videos of game breaking glitches, is the wrong place to expect game breaking glitches? Is your brain smooth?

[@TheDrakim]

Only today did i notice that spiffing brit is using his own spiffco watermark over his stockphotos 😂

[@Benkenobi8118]

more like online shakedown artists...

[@ipaxton]

Only because the douchebag doesn't want his shit videos to be bashed.

[@Alizudo]

@@ipaxton .. what??

[@redsixx669]

Omg how long has this been going on, i thought it was a normal watermark for the longest time xD

[@mugu2416]

The only reason I watch your channel is because you acknowledge and share the Yorkshire Tea experience. I care not for the rest, but the thought of you sipping tea while recording this in your voice, comforts me.

[@dandandowntown]

Spiffing Brit: Trade Boys Simo: Sand Boys Combined: Sand Trading Boyos

[@EgoEroTergum]

Old sand for new! Old sand for new!

[@IndigoGollum]

I don't like sand.

[@sanderbjerknes4476]

It is coarse

[@alexgheorghita4583]

and rough

[@lordcommandernox9197]

and irritating

[@peterpost1059]

"Look at that wiggle! Yes, just some big salami stick" -That just cracked me up! Haha! Keep up the fun, Spiff!

[@flamethrowex]

Me: gets bannerlord, makes a merchant character, starts smelting weapons for money (though mostly smithing XP to be honest) spiff: does the same thing and makes a god with it i did good!

[@sangriasingh2354]

>When the base game is so fun Spiff feels like he's cheating. Enjoy yourself during the plague.

[@kevinwallace1499]

Step 1. Make a bunch of money through trade Step 2. create own kingdom Step 3. Purchase the map off of the NPC's and rule the world without a single battle

[@DamnPoniez]

Exactly what I did lol

[@wangpasta]

im stuck on the create own kingdom stage XD, im probably missing something but i cant take a castle from anyone to start

[@theenglishbean8041]

@@wangpasta join a kingdom -> buy the vassal's stuff -> leave kingdom after buying all that kingdoms cities -> keep cities and there you have it

[@woozie9283]

Game: Has trees Spiff: "How ba-a-a-ad can I be?"

[@thenotflatearth2714]

Meanwhile my boy Simo over here gambling his life savings away due to not feeding his soldiers

[@snake45aiman]

He is a m&b youtuber yet he don't know about it XD it quite hilarious 😂

[@yoghy7758]

@@snake45aiman it was fixed in the first patch, the video is useless

[@HabboCoolcattim]

That dide will make the biggest island tax heaven 😂😂😂

[@whatiwonder4299]

2020: New Half-Life Game Also 2020: New M&B Release Me: Happy Noises.

[@rhawkas2637]

Also, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Resident Evil 3 Remake, Cyberpunk 2077, and probably a bunch of others I'm forgetting. If nothing else it's looking to be a good year for games. XD

[@whatiwonder4299]

@@rhawkas2637 I agree, I don't play FF but Ik a lot of people who do. Good to know they are still making games.

[@the_mad_fool]

@@rhawkas2637 Persona 5 Royal, Doom Eternal, and Animal Crossing. And Trials of Mana comes out in a couple weeks. This has been an amazing year for gaming already, and we're not even 4 months in!

[@tomstapleton6180]

2020:Coronavirus Me: oh no

[@Serx1945]

_XK end of the world scenario_

[@r.m.959]

most of the bugs being exploited here are already being taken care off, so this video is already outdated.

[@Vividmoney97]

Reza Mazaheri although the smithing mechanic seems to still work. As of my play through that I started today. Bought bastard swords for 151 each sold their parts for 3k in a town that had an iron smithy in it.

[@DragonSlayer-706]

Aaron Evans welp i know what i’m doin once it’s done downloading

[@zeira1188]

The materials price have been changed so the smithing technique doesn’t work as well now

[@gianfrancoguevara5636]

@@zeira1188 They still work for me though

[@zeira1188]

Gianfranco Guevara it might be in the beta branch then. Cause my ore and materials are way less than before.

[@Vladimir_Kv]

13:20 Spiff Brit is putting all his hardwood to good use, I see.

[@hyperactiveturtle78]

Spiff: theres no reason not to auto resolve every battle. Me: but Spiff battles are fun! Spiff: NO REASON

[@captainseyepatch3879]

Also your troops are idiots and I can do a better job killing the enemy.

[@campbellt8197]

There is a reason, cav archers massively underperform in simulations, I’ve beaten an army of 350 velandians with 96 mid-high tier cav archers with 12 losses total, there is no chance of anything close to that is sim no matter how high your level in tactics is.

[@hyperactiveturtle78]

@@campbellt8197 this is true. But there is a much higher xp gain for auto resolves so good for levelling one's scrub troops.

[@campbellt8197]

@@hyperactiveturtle78 that is true, the only reason I had over 40 heavy horse archers was through grinding looters

[@HotIsce]

Me: losing morale cuz i cant pay my men. Spiff: making 25k avg a start right after starting the game

[@superpantman]

just do a few quests making money isn't hard

[@HotIsce]

@@superpantman i know that it aint that hard, this was meant as a joke, as of now i own 3 feifs, multiple shops money aint a problem, i am already in the late game.

[@WG55]

Drinking game: Take a shot every time the Spiffing Brit says "broken." 🥴

[@Tospaa]

Take a shot every time the Spiffing Brit says "Ladies and Gentleman"

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

A shot of tea!

[@normalbird1139]

I think I broke my liver

[@The666opal111]

I hope I will not die doing this challenge. monkaOMEGA

For advanced difficulty, also include "fantastic" and "majestic".

[@SulFurMen]

I can't stop playing M&B Bannerlord and watching your videos. Best quarantine ever... 10/10 would eat bat again

[@robertodykirk]

You can still get stupid rich with smithing. Within an hour you can take all a settlements gold with one beefy two handed sword. Lol Best way to start the game. Build up about 3 mil before you think about joining or starting a kingdom.

[@duhaceman1130]

goes into 1 battle with over 600 people, comes out with enough loot to literally clean out a cities' gold coffers

[@TeaRexOnTwoWheels]

Hey spiffing! Just wanted to let you know that building a smithy will cause the average price of iron to increase by a huge amount! They will buy out all the iron/silver causing the price of smelted mats to start selling at ridiculous amounts! Not to mention your smithy then makes more from the smelted mats you are supplying! Absolutely delightful if I do say so myself. Great content and loving the game!

[@HooDooBrown]

I will have to give this a try. I currently had a beer workshop to test out. It works as intended which is to say not as much money as I would like to make.

[@TeaRexOnTwoWheels]

@@HooDooBrown Yeah I would only use the smithy for this reason alone as I have found it to make less than others. I have also found that a smithy works well in high traffic areas close to the front line fights.

[@nicholash4683]

Whats mats

[@HooDooBrown]

@@TeaRexOnTwoWheels Very good I shall give this a try once I log back in. I'll just use some extra money to swap it over and start bringing in the materials.

[@Meatbrawl]

@@nicholash4683 materials

[@granatmof]

I've probably watched your banner lord series about a dozen times. There's something bizarrely relaxing about them that I use to fall asleep.

[@RobiousIllyrian]

In my first campaign, the entire map was steam rolled by the Kuzaits, where only two cities stood independent of them. Had to restart as it was only like 3 weeks in :/ Glad they’ve patched the game so much :)

[@bannanaking6922]

RobiousTheKing i should have done that but didn’t and after I joined a faction kuzaits came and everything is now that yet we’re still at war with them. Not sure if I should restart or wait for more patches.

[@RobiousIllyrian]

Bannana King id just restart, even with the patches your guys would have to be Gods to make a comeback from that kind of situation (at least the one I was in)

[@Femboi_Hilda]

ya my first playthrew I finaly managed to create my own kningdome was told to destroy the empire but wait by time I was ready the kuzaits already too out all 3 empire factions pluse the eastern faction the northern faction and only one left standing was me the vladians and of corse the monsterous hord we all know well lol

[@juliomontega2868]

In my first game, i beheaded all Khuzaits, only to have their cities turn sturgian, without having sworn any allegiance :D

[@iameatingtrifle]

oooh caught it really early this time :) Already liked, about to watch now

[@letroll8954]

30:00 if you shoot the leader of a small faction their army starts running. It also helps that they're often literally the only dude with a horse

[@papabeans6679]

I assume simulations is when u “send your troops in”

[@juliusisinmyhouse787]

People: Where are our weapons? Spiff: haha Destroying weapons go brrrrr

[@hibikichan27]

Always nice to watch a Spiff Co video with a hot cup of Tea. Makes it way more enjoyable

[@Nlinzer]

In defence of Horse Archers, that's exactly how horse archers were historically and why they were one of the most feared troops in late antiquity to the medival era

[@jamiehughes5573]

Especially the Mongols, they were quite formidable on horse back, how else did Genghis khan become one of the most powerful person in human history in terms of total children sired and wars

[@ramzabeoulve7333]

I've actually seen grain go as low as "6" on one of the Aserai towns, made a shit ton of money on that.

[@fury4425]

I feel like spiffs ultimate goal for making these videos is to make game devs make a perfectly balanced game with no exploits

[@Elmias]

I kinda hope you'd show everyone how Elite: Dangerous is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits ;)

[@Tboy-hx9ow]

Elmias Now I see what you did there ;)

[@ivan55599]

And, perhaps the first time in a history of computer games - trading has made better as career choise than killing people. Or, at least, clearly more profitable.

[@austintrigloff9562]

Killing is technically trading... Lives. Still, one life is one less person contributing to the economy, so it's still a bad deal.

[@Icanthas]

Freelancer was the same. Best trade run in the game (that I know of) and I could have more money than anyone on the server within 3 hours.

[@arkosilaura]

The first half minute, you gave me a real TotalBiscuit vibe. Subbed and liked as you ordered.

[@jimtalbott9535]

Spiff: Sees friendly soldier cheering at end of battle - shoots his horse in head repeatedly - soldier keeps cheering - Spiff finally kills horse - soldier keeps cheering. Yeah, this is early release alright.

[@lokosoko]

thats something in the warband game too, pretty sure itll always be there

[@reinznel1681]

I hope it stays

[@selveckpryde7891]

The Correct response is: "D" or "E"

[@chrisultra8886]

l

[@helliswar]

@@chrisultra8886 WE

[@Pfeifenkraut]

Cause it rhymes with tee

[@visionaeon]

It's! T! IT'S ALWAYS TEA! 🍵

[@garretthinkle888]

Hail Mighty Spiffy Brit; I just bought this game and after watching this video the first time, I decided to get it. I enjoy your videos. I want to thank you for making them, now I can use the same tactics you used to make my own trading empire in game. Keep up your wonderful work.

[@mattcruse495]

When Harvest Season called, spiff, I knew you will answer. And you did.

[@MrMartinBoo]

just a video for those that can travel back in time when this video was relevant

[@Bancheis]

You actually can if you wish. Just right click and go to Properties, then select the BETAS page, and pick your poison. But they did fix a lot of game breaking things too, so do so at your own risk :p

[@fatterpillar]

I see a lot of the guides over looking how cheaply villages sell/how high they buy stuff for and just doing city prices, blessed seeing someone actually stop in towns.

[@Diamorr-]

Me: is playing Bannerlord *Spiff releases this video* Me: "oh hello there ;)"

[@DzughashvilisFavored]

Literally Same

[@Stygiophobic]

The workshop bug was fixed a couple of days ago

[@thefficialOrc]

I made the mistake of trying it for hours and it was fixed like 4 days ago

[@Diamorr-]

@@thefficialOrc same, I kept wondering why it didn't make me rich :/

[@Diamorr-]

But they haven't fixed the tournament AI, keep riding in circles poking everybody and I'm always just out of reach

[@OmegaReaver]

Whenever Spiff asks the question, the answer is _always_ "D". _ALWAYS_ .

[@skem9622]

Yknow, spiff could single handedly break a game WHIlE its in the latest release, i cant imagine what he could do to a game in beta

[@tjtruejustice5277]

I think they intentionally released this game untested so Spiff can find all the bugs for them and they wouldn't have to pay people to test it for them.

[@bingleymitchell6118]

In turn exploiting the spiff while he exploits their game.

[@Multiyuppp]

Workshops got nerfed before spiff even released the video lol

[@sneakydragon2352]

All of these exploits were found by the community

[@bigdumb4343]

Day one of only consuming Yorkshire Tea Gold; Nothing huge so far, met the Queen in my sleep. She told me to keep going and all will be revealed

[@alexnonya5905]

Oh shit you're gonna be immortal soon enough

[@darthpalpalzang7914]

The Queen is weak! Nothing but a puppet of the glorious grain gods! Be prepared for grain tea!

[@fyrexia]

"For some reason the southern empire is very powerful" For me it's the complete opposite cause in my play-through they were wiped COMPLETELY off the map XD

[@sadoo0797]

Every play through is completely different gotta love it!

[@genericlegionaryrecruit7235]

"Infinite Money Glitch" *glances at ctrl ~ cheats*

[@JD-bk4zi]

Cheat engine has entered the chat

[@elekid7603]

playing like 100 hours so you can have 10 workshops and a max character, what an exploit 🤝

[@achabotte]

I really hope they continue updating and fixing problems in this game. It has soooooo much potential and is already solid

[@Azula01]

Ive got an even easier early game moneymaker: NO CAPITAL, PURE PROFIT *Find village with "herd quest" (horses preferably on horse-producing villages) *Sell half since quest only requires half *Then complete the quest *Profit

[@feyland_iltani]

hey spiff, idk if you will see this but i found a new bug for bannerlord 1.9.0, you can go over your party limit if you rescue a companion from an enemy party and set them out as a party immediately, idk if you can do anything with this (beyond the obvious have a whole army with no other factions) but would love to see you do something with this have a good one sir.

[@SpartanWarrior76]

You make me laugh so much in your videos. Thanks for brightening my day Spiff!

[@TheDragonfly256]

16:02 This was patched 2 days ago.

[@kevensmhith]

yes you are right

[@CollinInGame]

No, it was patched 4 days ago.

[@lloydthorpe1091]

Collin Kappa what patch was it?

[@TheDragonfly256]

@@CollinInGame You literally wrote your comment 2 days after mine... 2+2...

[@CollinInGame]

@@TheDragonfly256 Sorry, I meant 5 days ago.

[@jimjasutis5046]

I'm confused. You posted his on Apr 5, they cut the daily income from woodworking shops last week, so you must be using really old footage.

[@7tomi8]

Fell asleep while watching, am i the only one who takes a nap on spiff's videos ?

[@sgg3586]

The game has some serious balancing issues with damage honestly. I'm about 10 hours into a new campaign as a lord for the Southern Empire, and I have 52k+ and growing gold from just 2 castles. Which isn't super OP when you start to realize that a stupid Crossbow alone costs 42k. But despite fielding an army entirely made up of the highest tier troops, I still see them getting killed in battle against looters and farmers. Like their armour is practically no better than rubbing mud on your naked body and charging headlong into a field of Cactus. Sure they carry shields and slightly get better at swinging their sharp metal sticks, but when I'm able to field an army of tier 3 units just as (if not more) effectively than tier 5...something is fundamentally wrong. Even with the heaviest armour in the world (I'm practically a walking Medieval Iron Man) with 35+ in all my armour categories, I STILL can be killed in 3-4 hits by some peasants carrying a crooked branch with a blade strapped to the end. WITH the game set to 1/3 damage to myself. Like WTF? the damage values on onehanded weapons seem really high. Especially compared with spears that do like 26, while a rusty sword will start at 50 on the lower end of the scale. I'm not saying I should be an unkillable god in all my armour, but wearing all this heavy protection should only be letting through like 5 damage per hit from weak enemies, not taking nearly 1/4 of my HP pool when some dirt-eating woodsman bonks my high-grade steel-reinforced leather layered armour with a freaking butterknife.

[@ianperley233]

If the butter knife is greasy from, yaknow, cutting butter, that could explain why it's so easily able to slip past your defences. Just something to think about!

[@awesome9174]

Sounds like a big for you. I swear it takes forever for enemies to bring my health down.

[@nugsnjugs9954]

It seems like every looter in this game is a major league baseball pitcher with how accurate and powerful their throws are. I got hit for 15 damage with full armor on and I thought "is this guy Aroldis Chapman?

[@CrizzyEyes]

Are you aware of how damage types work in this game? If the formula is the same as in Warband, pierce damage ignores 33% of armor and blunt ignores 50%. That's why pierce and blunt damage base values are lower, and why inbred peasants with tree branches still deal damage to you. My suggestion is to get better with your footwork, because which part of the weapon hits you also matters. Generally with a weapon like a sword you want to make sure they're far enough away so that the half of the blade extending to the tip hits them and no closer than that. But lower tier weapons are usually also shorter, which has the side effect of making them better in very close range because the tip of the weapon is closer to you. If you use a mace, you can basically hug a guy and spam attacks to deal good damage, but if you do that with a full length sword your damage will be reduced considerably because you're too close and the laws of torque apply. Also, hit people in the head, it does way more damage. Damage is all about location and the speed that the part of the weapon that makes contact is moving at.

[@Roachyyy]

I'm so early that the video is showing 0 views. Wow, this is a first. I love your videos Spiff, please be sure to keep it up.

[@cuddlyscorpion]

I love that this video was posted on the 6th of April and the wood workshop exploit was fixed on the 2nd of April.

[@Kropolis]

don't think you even needed tho make this video, games broken af because owning a single city and two castles somehow got me 20m denars with only like "1,500" income. how can i break a game by genuinely playing it properly lmao

[@Schnarchnase]

That income bug from cities and castles will fix itself after one or maybe 2 savefile loads. That's how it was for me.