Mastering Manor Lords Is Easier With This Full Guide

[@TacticatGaming]

If There are individual areas you would like quick details on - see the below videos Food Data: - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1etAVLGQdDtiutAvZSgch-4_UbBDLgYy9_YEsEgImfTA/edit?gid=0#gid=0 -Town Optimization: Manor Lords Burgage Plot Guide - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZnJhmiNgadmiKM -Feeding Your City: Manor Lords Food Guide For New Patch - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eISlc55qhsmql5Y -Manor Lords Guide - Perfect City Shield Design Roads - kzbin.info/www/bejne/ep6ooKtpq7iLack -Manor Lords: Efficient Market Strategies That Can Help - kzbin.info/www/bejne/roDXi6p4Yt97rac -Manor Lords: Bait Armies, Defend Cool Forts, and Dominate the Realm - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJ2rin5spKqKe9k

[@johncallaway7501]

34:41 "we're gonna build that bad bit- ... boy up" lol

[@ryankawash2847]

Who else is here watching the 100th video on how to play this game. I swear I watch more tutorial videos on this game then actually playing it

[@Fives179]

dude this was the exact same case to me with stellaris. I swear I watched a tutorial series that was like 17h. To be fair I did learn how to play the game to a decent level but played max like 10h of it and then got bored haha.

[@christophmonnaie8413]

I didn't even buy it, getting convinced to give it a try tho :)

[@vikeneswarannedunchezhiyan6332]

Me, I had it on my wishlist for awhile now, it was on 30 percent off so I got it and boy was I watching tutorials.. in less than an hour I refunded the game. Sad really

[@ancientnpc]

Using corpse pits to plan the town also gives the citizens a realistic idea of what's ahead.

[@aannkkiitt]

@@ancientnpc 😂😂😂

[@mr.anderson7191]

just watched the first 10 mins, and I already feel this is some PhD level of stuff. Good vid.

[@xandersons]

💯

[@vladdrakul7851]

Of all the many Manor Lord videos I have seen this was the best. Clear, detailed and well spoken. Has shown me MANY useful things. UP VOTED!

[@lucassanchez9120]

@@vladdrakul7851 for real no slow good tempo

[@JacobDean-js5kr]

"We're going to build that bad bit-... boy up" That cracked me up haha

[@thehuubster]

Thanks, I actually learned some new tips and tricks. I like to build more authentic looking towns but you could definetly do that while taking advantage of some of your tips!

[@gergobonda5130]

I know it is in early stage, but this game really needs a complex tutorial. These kind of games loose a lot of customers by being complex without an engaging onboarding process. Thanks for the guide!

[@Bl4cK-m3i]

Bro this was like a math and science lesson at school. I came here, totally bored, knowing nothing and I am leaving with a head full of information and things I wanna try out🙏

[@KG-1]

Per Strat, always go stand your ground to absorb the charge, but then do push forward right afterward to win faster/probably avoid casualties.

[@KG-1]

As an added note, make sure you toggle run to off when you muster your troops so they are not worn out at the start of the fight. I will lay odds this might be why TC lost 3 in that initial engagement fighting downhill on home ground - fatigue level.

[@AdmiralDro]

This is a crazy good guide. I just started playing this game and i am learning a lot from this

[@williammal2166]

Same this literally enlightened me

[@ixeyeb]

Just got the game and started building random without watching any tutorial, bad mistake! TactiCat, your video makes the most sense out of this complex game. You give a clear easy to understand method to getting your village up and running to becoming the power of the region. Nice job!!

[@KG-1]

Started another one just today and this time used the 2x6 CP sets that layout benders. What I did different is to surround each one with a road, demo the CP's and then put a corner-to-corner diagonal in each one. Arranging the diagonals to point inward and placing the house facing inward and located across the the corner. The diagonals form a British Union Jack look. then you put your store house/granary/markets at the center where all the diagonal lines point. Space enough needs to be left in the center for the key logistics buildings, and burgage space for blacksmith, joiner, fletcher. As applicable for bloomery and/or clay oven. Each triangular burgage for veggie/apples is something like a 30-60 right triangle, it seems like more backyard than I've seen before and the traffic management to the granary/storehouse is excellent.

[@JBL8900]

Wow, I've never been able to produce THIS much eggs 😮

[@TacticatGaming]

I’m a cat of many talents

[@isiahfriedlander5559]

@@TacticatGaming that’s my boy!

[@shawnk8802]

Bought this game Friday and played a bit over the weekend .... learned more from you in 15 minutes than I discovered over the entire weekend ... THANK YOU!! (Sub'd)

[@LeeAndrewVideos]

Got the game during a Black Friday deal and been enjoying it a lot, but always have food issues. I can now safly say, after using this video as a basis and starting a few new playthroughs, I always have a great start and overall success is so much better! Cheers for sharing!

[@lelsqueks]

the game is so early in development but already so nuanced and expansive that you’ve got to choose your youtuber by their starting style or it won’t have much relevance to you

[@Xheasor]

Well, not really early in development. 😅 Has been developed for 7 years now. Sadly it's only one programmer. Still lots of bugs, lots of QoL-features missing and also a lot of content still missing. But that's no hate, love the game so far. But until it's really done and in a finished state, I guess we'll have to go some more years.

[@lelsqueks]

@@Xheasor noticed bugs and so much undone but: it’s already such a good game, soooo promising to be the best (and first?) medieval city planner x rts ever

[@MozzaBurger88]

@@Xheasor I don't understand why he doesn't hire a bit of help with that early access money and such... Could even levy some investment money considering the good press the game gets. 7 years and yes, as good as it is, it's very very much unfinished.

[@raginasiangaming910]

@lelsqueks it's not early in development lol. It's been in development for 7 years. Also far from the first medieval city builder. I'd argue that for the time and tech available, Lords of the Realm II and Stronghold were just as good. In current times, Farthest Frontier is arguably a better city builder though it lacks tactical combat.

[@KG-1]

I took some clues from your experimental bender and did the following. I do 2 2x6 CP arrays on a road running longwise and centered and parallel to a line between the berries and game. Then I demo the middle 2 2x2's, put roads around the corner 4 2x2's, then a diagonal road pointing to center on the four corner 2x2's, four British flag look. Then you can build a total of 8 double burgage plots, with the houses at the inner corners, backyard extensions to the corners. go cw or ccw to optimize backyard extension, first 2 burgage points creating a cut-off tip for the inner pointed burgage tips. The marketplaces goes 2x3 spaces centered one on each side of the axial road where the middle 2x2 CP's used to be. Granary & Storage on either side of the axial, central road. This leaves space in old center 2x2 CP survey areas also for tannery and the double burgage plot for shoes, tannery, double burgage for joiner, blacksmith possibly, but certainly the clay oven and bloomery. This seems to work pretty well, all the diagonals help with walking paths and general traffic outer to center. I also make sure to survey my initial 4x6 CP array to align with grid. I'm not going to get .75 morgens veggies/apples, but I'm certainly getting the .5. I also don't build the second house on the double burgage veggie/orchards right away either so as not to put an early overload on stalls. I think the right call with centrally located shoemaker and tannery is to let them do stalls for clothes to lighten the load on the store house guys, so they can go get stone/iron/clay. In the end you have a Paris metro map for your roads - good circumferential and radial travel. farms go outside of this. I like .7-.9 morgens a field - quite manageable with plow stations. Also Rye is really worth it for the extra yield. It's worth noting how much you can sell bread for in that regard. Bakeries extensions if the DP are available for centrally located burgage that might have been chickens or hides.

[@TacticatGaming]

Interesting idea!

[@Kidraver555]

A picture would really explain things, cheers.

[@KG-1]

@@Kidraver555 well I would, but this is YT right, not doable. The basics are just doing 2x2 CP based veggie/orchards instead of the L shape TC uses.

[@dwightlong1002]

Thank you for this guide! Full of information and tips and this is the best one I have seen so far.

[@04WeBsTeR93]

This video has actually helped me understand the mechanics of the game and how to play to the strengths of your starting area, cheers dude!

[@FrankThaTank7713]

This start is amazing and this guide is great. I started my first kingdom yesterday with limited knowledge and now I cannot wait to start another lol.

[@Direloc]

I really think that Deep Mining Iron and Rich Game might be the best start. There are SO many things iron can be traded for later with the blacksmith. Yes it will take a lot to get those trade routes going - but it definitely allows for vast wealth income to compensate.

[@TacticatGaming]

Yeah it’s a powerful economy

[@MikaelKKarlsson]

By building burgage plots earlier it's possible to get the first new family around April. The first families are also not complete until after they have moved in, which affects the early starting workforce. I'm not sure but also suspect that leveling up the settlement to Small Village may have a hidden beneficial effect on when people start to move in.

[@steveboykia4746]

The best explanation of this game ! nice and steady 👍 good voice tone ( and that is important ! ) and no flicking around with the mouse cursor, as many people do, easy to follow well done 😄

[@TacticatGaming]

Thank you, i edited this video second by second - it took a week and i removed a lot of me rambling or saying um's .. all that jazz lmao

[@thedarkside7508]

@@TacticatGaming You did a good job, it was easy to listen to. It's easy to overlook when done right, but it really does make a difference.

[@Spar605]

hey man thanks for this content. I would say this one video has almost all the information one could need for Manor Lords EA :) I couldn't have done it without you. Your '6 Pack' Burgage plot technique changed my life :) Thankyou so much.

[@StefanInOz]

Great summary of all you (and other gamers) have figured out so far! That'll make it easy for all the beginners to build a prospering city. Thanks!

[@USJFKSWGA]

I just started playing this game today. You're a legend for this guide.

[@droidean]

This video was very helpful for a new player. Thanks! It's nice just to see someone play it out and talk it out. Glad I found your channel.

[@Gondolin232]

Absolutely loving this guide and I actually spawned in the same region as you but with a Rich Stone and Rich Iron and my Wild Life and Berries were fairly close together as well! My only issues so far is that I am around a month behind your progress and only have 23 workers and can't seem to keep over 75% approval consistently enough. Normally sitting between 66%-74%. At a glance it looks like Clothing is my main issue in this as i just can't get enough hides for leather. Also my berries don't seem to produce as much as yours for whatever reason but so far its been enough. Keep up the great work with the videos!

[@patrickkelly6691]

Alway I take away a 'new' idea or two, a pleasure to watch

[@benhadaway3322]

I think trade logistics would have been better than drought protection since you had way more trade and hardly any farms. Great stuff learned a lot.

[@chickenmadness1732]

Cus he had 2 of the best resource deposits for trading. Just sell at every step of the production, so iron ore, iron slabs, tools, etc. Just put a limit on everything so if you have surplus on anything it gets sold.

[@juanmojicajr.1163]

This is a tad beyond me , but it explains a lot! I’ve played about four sessions so far, with each one ending horribly but thanks to you I can see how to better prepare.

[@ZarynMoon]

I've been using this since right after I started playing and it works like a gem!!! Thank you for putting this together! I hope you'll make more videos once the patch comes out... "Soon"TM I think it's going to be well worth the wait! =)

[@toddryan7442]

Just - wow. Who knew corpse pits would win the day and be such a helpful tool also. :). Thanks for sharing your expertise. Super great info.

[@seanvucich]

3rd creator (and final) I've found that answers the kind of the questions I had. Thanks, I'll be watching more of the indepth stuff.

[@biopharmmarkets2115]

@@seanvucich yeah most of the tutorials just fly through shit, don’t explain anything

[@SZ2RPH]

AWESOME Guide and very easy to understand, THANK YOU!!

[@DrNumanG]

dude, what is this? i am an md, this is much more than knowledge? kudos!

[@mega0056]

Bro thank you so much for this guide. Just the first 18 mins taught me a lot. You practically made a college level lecture of this game and I love it. I also noticed you did not really bother with mercenaries. Doesn't the baron eventually have a monopoly of mercenaries (as in he gets the all) if you don't hire any? I tend to try and get the cheaper ones like the flock of crazy geese (3 units for 90) and the wayward sons (2 archer units for 45). But it is really hard to maintain them with an early economy. Either way learned a lot of new tricks from you and look forward to trying them out. Still going to play this current save through, most likely till failure, so I can learn from my mistakes as failure has been the best teacher in this game and honestly I am enjoying it. It's not a simple colony sim like others and the challenges it brings are unique and exciting.

[@richardpaulmeieriimd423]

Awesome video! Learned a lot. ❤

[@Marcus_Halberstram]

The bender is fricking ingenious! That's how you rig the game in your favor 👍

[@Onulharu]

I'm so happy to meet this video. Cause I always wonder about good enough size for apple and vegetable. And then I realized this game mechanism is so simillar with anno and frost punk. Thanks a lot 😊

[@Jubijub]

Fantastic video ! The game being unfinished, a lot of it is not intuitive, you explain a lot of the mechanics, really well.

[@digitalbladeca]

Awesome tutorial! I love that game but have struggled to understand some of the dynamics, this cleared it all up. Cheers!

[@chillpill7348]

Excellent Guide brother, really appreciated.. I was about to giive up on this game.. Its too complicated .. Sometimes no family comes even if everything is good, workers stop working.. dunno Y.. But ur guide video surely helped me understanding it in a better way.. Thanks brother & Keep up the good work.

[@ankaretwells7618]

Super helpful, particularly the multiple apiaries. Thank you!

[@mrguy560]

Great idea on building those burgage plots. I’ve been guilty of the very long plots which can be a pain to navigate around several years on.

[@trevorseidel4536]

Great explanation of why you do the things you do. I think I've been upgrading to level 2 housing too soon, before I have a stable supply of the 2 food requirements. Which is tanking my approval rating and preventing it from reaching 75% for the 2 family/month immigration. I couldn't figure out why & it was pissing me off. Thanx!

[@Magoo-h9k]

WoW! Amazing Tutorial! Thanks for doing this! Subscribed.

[@TheLawrence05]

This game is soo cool. I love the music so much the greg chants really fit

[@fozzy2444]

22:19 I moved the wild animal zone, and after 5-6 years, the hunters went hunting off the map lol😂

[@KOBZOL-r2o]

When i moved my hunting ground ... i had a feeling like hunters go hunt to the old one ... didnt remember where it was exactly so not sure ... but i rather reroll map than move hunting grounds now

[@demoulius1529]

Wait you can move where the animals are located?

[@dazzzmanschannel]

Very well detailed and direct tysm 🎉helps me a lot already restarted like 5 times in 24hrs. Lol

[@KOBZOL-r2o]

thanks for tips ... bender is amazing :D .. in return little tip from me ... when i go to steal camp from AI (not fighting just steal gold) i create 6 groupes of spearman and send out only one ... a lot of people still working during skirmish ...

[@jvoodoochild2755]

Thank you for the content, I’m heavy into micro management (just how I like things) so there is a lot to learn from seeing a set and forget system. I’m a bit surprised of how efficient (in terms of pop walking) your guides are in some areas (veggies, granaries, etc), but casual in others (like distance of churches, wells, sawmills, etc). What are the limitations of having several small/specialized communities where things are hyper efficient all around?

[@TacticatGaming]

Market stalls can’t be limited to specific granary or storehouse - workers will travel all over to fill them - you can split food to one, clothing to one, fire wood to one though

[@jvoodoochild2755]

@@TacticatGaming my question is more about capping Burgess levels lower to focus on one research branch to exchange overstock with other regions doing other specializations

[@ZTheLastViking]

34:40 that bad who? 😂 Nice save

[@demoulius1529]

I bought the game a few days ago and this video explained so much for me. I do think they changed berries though because even a single shack with 2 workers in it empties out the bushes and ive got the perk that doubles the amount of available berries :/ unless im not seeing things right? Ive had SOOOO many problems with food but I think il make a new game soon and try the big veggie farms and the orchards. That seems to work well :)

[@luarvikluarvik4276]

The Bandit camp steal is great!

[@tiamat_023]

dang just hopped right into it. gold star for you, sir. :star

[@murphy2870]

excellent video. i learnt a lot. thanks.

[@morganaluthor]

Very good tips 👍 thanks a bunch 😊

[@Sparticulous]

Thank you!

[@bartekpula8581]

34:43 bro passed Quick time event 😂. Good guide tho, very helpfull 😊

[@qsplays2362]

You can build multiple mines on one clay or iron node by the way, super helpful for deep mines

[@joeholdsworth3083]

Excellent guide thanks - corpse pit for ever!

[@chickenmadness1732]

You can fit up to 4 mines on top of the iron and clay deposit by the way. Pretty over powered in the late game when it's infinite. You can straight up sell the raw ores and make stonk cus there's so much of it.

[@raginasiangaming910]

I wish they'd bring in the buy and sell mechanics from Farthest Frontier. It'd be nice to have options other than farm and fight. Farthest Frontier I made a city that survives primarily off of being a trade hub that funded almost everything for its military and growth with trade.

[@Mai-zd3lf]

At 47:02 why do you stop the foragers making market stalls?

[@thedude7450]

Great info. I am following your guide step by step. I am in August and have 0 meat. I even built a second hunting camp and nothing. 😢

[@thedude7450]

I learned so much from this!!! If you have a chance could you explain your reasoning for not taking the Trade Logistics Dev Point? Thanks.

[@TacticatGaming]

Id doesn’t do as much as it used to - money isn’t too hard in this game

[@kiwicami287]

hey, really good video, watched it all the way through, i'm currently at the stage where i'm growing barley to upgrade to level 3 plots, is the trickling of ale you talk about still a thing in more recent versions? (no idea if it was updated since this video was published 3 months ago)

[@TacticatGaming]

I plan on revisiting this soon - but it worked in beta patch which is the new patch

[@PulpJuicer]

Here after getting to a large village. Started by over hunting a spot off the map, got by tooth and nail with food, wondered why I had no money and anything I got was instantly taken away (I used my skill point on the carts for the marketplace 😂) then got raided and had my entire village burnt to a crisp in a matter of 30 seconds. 10/10 🤣

[@menemissuccess]

Hey man! Love your videos! I'm new to Manor Lords and I've been trying to do your burgage plot setup, the 2x6 but for some reason I'm able to do 1 pretty much perfect but when I'm trying to do the next one it's a fucking disaster. Could you please give me some advice or make a short video on everything you need to check for in order to do the 2x6 flawlessly? I've seen your other burgage plots videos and still I'm having problems with it. Thanks for everything TactiCat!

[@mikebotkin9094]

Amazing work

[@ashlandky62]

Keep up the good work!

[@patrickstar3258]

wow best guide i've seen

[@robmeurs2990]

This helped me a lot. My problem was that my market area was way to big.

[@Galrash]

Loving this guide. I can't seem to get the same results though unfortunately. I've pretty much followed your path exactly except My population is a bit higher than yours on certain months. That said, I'm at 1:16:00 in your video in Jan where you have 389 eggs, 634 veggies, 122 berries, and 132 bread... and I'm nowhere near that. I have 575 veggies which is good, but 61 berries, 22 bread, 39 eggs, 19 apples. Not really sure why tbh

[@TacticatGaming]

depends on a lot of factors like year - this guide is condensed 4 hours of gameplay into 1 veigies reach full yield at year 3-5 now applies don't reach full yield till year 5 eggs - my advice is to buy them till you're at a 100 and then the flow of your eggs should help there are rumors of a egg spoilage bug but i haven't looked into that

[@Raija1980s]

Also......can you show us how you repeat these process's on other regions and how much until the game freezes your computer due to the chaos in the games environment

[@_RandomPea]

Wow... Blew my mind on the game mechanics .. I was just plonking things down 😂

[@daxoftheflame7409]

Does building multiple hunting cabins work the same way as multiple forager huts if you're using the trapping perk?

[@prodbytwobuck]

This is a good question. 🤔

[@penknight8532]

It should but I've encountered some bugs when hunting meat and laying traps. The game still seems to have a lot of bugs.

[@TacticatGaming]

Yes if you have trapping but trapping is buggy and sometimes the workers will do it correctly and other times they go one a spiritual quest and do Jack shit

[@Direloc]

I have had to stop trapping for now. It basically robbed me of one of my food sources when I got it. The problem is exacerbated if you FORCE MOVE the deposit at the start of the game.

[@TacticatGaming]

Ahhh that would explain the variance I’ve seen in it working or not working

[@justsaynotoboomers]

Tried to follow this guide but my hunters never hunted, even after 'herding' the big source of animals closer with corpse pits. I also never got whoever that NPC is that comes in to attack brigands.

[@venum1959]

I have watched a few videos on the gane and i don't understand why i can't seem to do anywhere near as well even by following what people do and having a good spawn of a map.

[@deanweiss7913]

Has the latest update changed how the veggie plots are worked? I tried setting up plots using the triple corpse pit method shown and it is taking the villagers forever to work them and get them planted. I started the first garden in June of year 1, it is now November of year 1 and they are still working.

[@TacticatGaming]

Takes about 2-3 years to get normal yields

[@bnine4806]

Firstly, great guide. Well paced, easy to follow and very thorough. Earned my Sub and a Like 👍 Secondly, I noticed on the latest patch that placing a field now removes the Berry Bushes. I didn’t stick around in that save to see if it was cosmetic only and could be harvested or not. Do you have any insight if this was patched out?

[@TacticatGaming]

It’s not patched out I can still do it

[@bnine4806]

@@TacticatGaming Awesome, thank you for the reply! 👍

[@LandoCalr]

I can almost never get the plots to use the points like you do. They always end up taking up less space in the 6x2 setup.

[@TacticatGaming]

Gotta make sure you’re aligned corner to corner of the large map

[@chillinthesnow6145]

I cannot seem to get the orchard to fit like that. It will not follow round the outside no matter what I do.

[@TacticatGaming]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZnJhmiNgadmiKM

[@xandersons]

there are always issues with the happy ppl, now i think i could fix it finally

[@Koomoa]

Please do a video on Challenge Mode!

[@rustyshackleford3874]

They should have you make the official in-game tutorial...amazing video! Now I know how to actually play the game...haha Question: Can you still export if you dont buy the trade route?

[@TacticatGaming]

Yes but it’s only for certain goods and it’s slow

[@darkfoxx87]

Do archers do any damage? I used them several times recently and they failed to kill anyone

[@ashleygwardyak4625]

are helmets and armor not really important ?

[@TacticatGaming]

They are important for fighting the baron

[@ashleygwardyak4625]

@@TacticatGaming ty!

[@geraldomagellajunior]

I'm having issues with the design of Burgage plots...... some times I don't get the option to add the extension... even though the option was present at time of placement. Any suggestions?

[@geraldomagellajunior]

Biggest pain in the neck is that demolishing result in logs being in the way to re-construct....

[@TacticatGaming]

I’ve never seen that happen so I’m not sure

[@KG-1]

Anyone else seem to experience mostly getting 2 rich deposit starts? On normal difficulty that's what I seem to get even after multiple re-rolls. Also seem to get the same province starts on re-roll too.

[@TacticatGaming]

Yeah it’s rare typically takes me 10 rolls

[@camo4635]

Fantastic!

[@crabclaw100]

AWESOME! TYVM

[@_RandomPea]

Played again last night, is it me or do the logging camps not empty? I swear they used to. But in the store house I can't see wood as an option

[@TacticatGaming]

Logs can only be stored in a logging camp

[@alivdee9946]

What is the difference between trading with and without trade route ??

[@TacticatGaming]

Trade routes will result in substantially more trade - your horses and traders will move goods and others are more likely to come to you

[@Apxllxn]

You are saying that every family consumes 1 food. Other sources say that it depends on the number of burgage plots, not families. What is right?

[@TacticatGaming]

Families I and others tested this with 5 + years of consumption data using single and double plots - I’ve spent a total of 10 hours compiling data on it

[@TacticatGaming]

Consumption and market availability are two different mechanics btw

[@Apxllxn]

@@TacticatGaming thank you

[@diegomeneghello8865]

Thanks for all the tips! Do you plan to make a new design soon? have a nice day too.

[@TacticatGaming]

I might, was hoping for city walls for the next design

[@josephlim808]

The Learning Cuve on this game is getting me nuts

[@MemeCastGuy69]

Felt like a great beginners guide... untul I got to the corpse plot part haha. I am totally lost because he seems to having a bit of a problem compar3d to normal for him or something

[@MemeCastGuy69]

Nvm... this is a great video and guide! Good stuff G!