Ditto... finally was gifted my own castle but man I need a rest.I've played this far too much over last 2 days, my hands and wrists are wreaked
It's gonna be awesome-er when they develop it more etc, I have to stop now and rest (in a city)
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
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Soldato
Okay so after many trials and tribulations for my character finally feeling like I'm getting somewhere 9 hours in..
At first I attacked everything that moved, bad idea, I started about 7 wars, wars I didn't have the manpower or the money to get me out of... I have now settled all but one of these.
Anyway after a fair bit of grinding I have the following..
A companion
A caravan
58 strong army
and about 10k in the bank, I have just joined the North as a mercenery, so where do I go from here? Can I recruit another companion and get another caravan? Sometimes feel a bit lost in the game as to what to do next. Really enjoyable though and at 9 hours playtime I've already had my monies worth.
At first I attacked everything that moved, bad idea, I started about 7 wars, wars I didn't have the manpower or the money to get me out of... I have now settled all but one of these.
Anyway after a fair bit of grinding I have the following..
A companion
A caravan
58 strong army
and about 10k in the bank, I have just joined the North as a mercenery, so where do I go from here? Can I recruit another companion and get another caravan? Sometimes feel a bit lost in the game as to what to do next. Really enjoyable though and at 9 hours playtime I've already had my monies worth.
Soldato
"L" on your keyboard brings up your clan. At clan 1 (mercenary) you can get 4 companions I think. Try and get a doctor (healer, surgeon, willowbark surnames that I've seen so far), since they keep your guys alive in battles.
Next clan level should get you closer to a 80/90 man army, then you start to feel a bit more powerful, to get there, keep building renown.
If you're not sure what to do, don't panic. Wander between towns, trade, compete in tournaments, chase down bandits and just let your hair down for a bit.
Losing a battle and getting captured is punishing, so try and avoid it. Getting horses (saddle horses or better) in your inventory allows you to travel faster, as your footmen ride them when out of battle, very useful for staying out of trouble.
Next clan level should get you closer to a 80/90 man army, then you start to feel a bit more powerful, to get there, keep building renown.
If you're not sure what to do, don't panic. Wander between towns, trade, compete in tournaments, chase down bandits and just let your hair down for a bit
.Losing a battle and getting captured is punishing, so try and avoid it
. Getting horses (saddle horses or better) in your inventory allows you to travel faster, as your footmen ride them when out of battle, very useful for staying out of trouble.Oh crap...My first play through lasted around 50 hours. Found it almost impossible to start my own kingdom. Turns out if you cut everyone’s heads off then you’re quite the wanted man
First time playing a M&B game, so started a fresh save with everything I’ve learned from my first save. I’m concentrating on building an army and training them, whilst competing in tournaments for gear, XP, skill increases and renown. Have 1 follower out with a full stack training before own army. Mine is currently 76/76 I believe. I’m waiting for the opportune moment to conquer a weakened imperial settlement. Finding the lords and good companions is much easier now I’m using the encyclopaedia.
All in all really enjoying the game. Has a lot of issue e.g. troops clumping up and sieges being a cluster **** but overall it’s got great potential. Hopefully the regular updates continue.
1) Can you send followers out to train and recruit armies themselves? Like fully autonomously?
2) There are healers you can hire to keep troops alive in battles?
There is so much to this game I have to learn and I LOVE the fact I am not spoon-fed and am constantly finding out new (and seemingly obvious, hah) things.
Also make sure you kill lots of bandits around the villages that produce good troops and do questions for the leaders... because the good relations with them mean you can pick up the high tier troops much more easily including mounted troops.
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Soldato
Followers can have the same skills as you. Different followers have different skills, talk to them and you'll generally get a bit of info on their skillsets. They can either run a caravan or their own party. Once you have a kingdom, you can then call them to join your army (those big trains of separate parties).
I think you can still autoresolve looter battles with no risk of soldiers getting killed, can be a better option than manually fighting them.
EDIT - And if you're finding levelling a bit slow, try the new beta branch, levelling seems much quicker (at least early on).
I think you can still autoresolve looter battles with no risk of soldiers getting killed, can be a better option than manually fighting them.
EDIT - And if you're finding levelling a bit slow, try the new beta branch, levelling seems much quicker (at least early on).
Ok but to confirm... can followers JUST go around recruiting troops independently, or do you have to control them?
Ahh the new update is BETA... I was wondering why I hadn't seen it. Hopefully it will come to the main branch soon because the leveling sucks and my stats are pitiful vs even many basic troops. It's just all too painfully slow and I say that as a man of patience. The lack of skill points I can assign for perks is a joke after 25 hours put into a game. Progression is more glacial than gradual.
Soldato
I think they recruit some themselves? But I know you have to give them troops to start with. At the very least, they'll recover prisoners.
It's not a graphical stunner for me, it's far more about the gameplay, think it's quite low requirements so you may not need to upgrade?
Hmm ok thanks mate I guess I will do some experimenting and likely start a new game soon.
Skyrim is to my eyes overall graphically WAY better, there really is no comparison imo. The Skyrim engine is one of the best engines ever made and with mods it is still one of the best looking epic-scale worlds out there. Bannerlord has some ok object and city detail and some passable lighting effects but still currently looks like it was made YEARS ago. The characters look especially bad.
I am playing Bannerlord on a notebook with a GTX 1070 and 16GB RAM at 1440p and it runs fine at MAX graphical settings with ALL bells and whistles enabled including AA. That is 4 year old hardware.
Only buy a GPU now if it's a good deal second hand, because you would be crazy to spend a lot of money when the new Nvidia Ampere release is later this year.
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That’s good to know I may get away with it with what I have then.
Soldato
Just tried it through GeForce Now and it run pretty well, had no problem winning a tournament. Bit of lag for first few seconds when loaded into the world map or a battle but after that smooth. Biggest downside of playing that way is that you won't be able to use any mods. I'm currently running ~20 mods, mostly fixes and QoL though couple might be considered cheating like slowing bandits parties.
And I manually nerfed throwing rocks so that looters aren't as annoying.
Soldato
Just tried it through GeForce Now and it run pretty well, had no problem winning a tournament. Bit of lag for first few seconds when loaded into the world map or a battle but after that smooth. Biggest downside of playing that way is that you won't be able to use any mods. I'm currently running ~20 mods, mostly fixes and QoL though couple might be considered cheating like slowing bandits parties.
Buy more horses. I was faster than almost anything with an army of 100+ because I had tons of saddle horses etc, for my footmen to use during general map travel.
Soldato
I know and I do but unless you have fairly small party consisting of only cavalry you're never catching steppe bandits.
Soldato
Once you are a vassal in a kingdom, attack the enemy caravans. I found a ton of loot this way and had more horses than troops, map speed is now 6.5 with 115 or so troops.
I now have my own vassal and they have their own 60 person army (gave them 20 decent mounted units to start with). They seem to recruit more than they are allowed and then lose a few due to morale issues. Some stats like Stewardship have improved for that companion though.
I also have a castle (+ the 2 villages that go with it) which has various options for upgrades.
You don't need to wait for ransom offers for lords like you did in previous versions, you can just sell them in any tavern with other prisoners.
The family feud quests seem to have stopped working for me, I get to the other village and the rest just doesn't trigger so i have a level 1 muppet in my party that doesn't level.
I now have my own vassal and they have their own 60 person army (gave them 20 decent mounted units to start with). They seem to recruit more than they are allowed and then lose a few due to morale issues. Some stats like Stewardship have improved for that companion though.
I also have a castle (+ the 2 villages that go with it) which has various options for upgrades.
You don't need to wait for ransom offers for lords like you did in previous versions, you can just sell them in any tavern with other prisoners.
The family feud quests seem to have stopped working for me, I get to the other village and the rest just doesn't trigger so i have a level 1 muppet in my party that doesn't level.
So to be clear, a vassal is just a companion that you split off and give his own party?
Hah, me too... I failed the quest and am still stuck with him.
Caporegime
I know it's early access but the game crashes a fair bit, graphical glitches like half the screen going black is really annoying as well, especially when you're on the last stage of the arena 
Family feud quests are never achievable either, I go to the person who you're supposed to talk too and they don't do anything.
Family feud quests are never achievable either, I go to the person who you're supposed to talk too and they don't do anything.
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