With the new changes to the villages bound to castles this can change. Here is the video explaining the changes. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abxpldqD3LyWXZc.html

This is a very helpful video for me. Not only does it show where the better towns to take towns are but it has made me think more about the relationship between the town, villages, castles and the goods they produce and receive. Thank you for this.

One of the best things about Danustica is that all, or nearly all, of its buildings start fully constructed. It's already operating at good efficiency and all you have to do is decide what daily task you want.

I'm a big fan of the Imperial border towns to be honest. Amprela gets a nice 6 bound castle villages with ample food and smithing goods. Epicrotea can also get the silver if you acquire the western Empire castle to the Southwest of it. The battle maps there also feature lots of rivers making it highly defensible. Orytisa als has lots of excellent bound villages. The benefit of the corners of the empire is that the trade is very lucrative even if the risk of war is higher.

Nice vid - never looked at the production of each city - I always go for secluded cities for my first - my fave is Odokh!

If you ever played main archer Battanians Fian, Epicrotea would be the best town to defend. Attacking or defeding around it makes it so easy for archers. Entering the map, there is only 1 bridge for infantries and calvaries to charge, you can easily set up your melee troops to fill the bridge and your archers will rain down the arrows into the enemies whild they getting stuck in the middle of the bridge.

Keep in mind though from "prosperity" that you talk about. That haveing surplus food boost that "fast" to put it that way. Example Seonon if you get it and make it "secure" - haveing 4 villages all give +18 food alone + all the goods etc that it will have, means that it can easy have 7+ prosperity per day. Until it get into that high numbers where the bonuses evens out etc. There is one downside to the tows with 4 villages though you can sometime have crazy amounts of negative modifiers for security. The worst was haveing a hideout -2, and I had each town haveing 1 quest that also tanked security(clear bandits, Extortion etc). But this isnt a big issue, you can just go clear them etc, get policy modifiers, Governor with good security and so on. Ai on the other hand sometimes been struggling with this though.

amazing video man. thanks a lot!

Everything else I agree with or have a similar opinion. Great vid 🙂

Do not become KING, when rebels take a town, attack it and take it from the rebels as long as you are not king other kingdoms wont attack your new town or castle. at very start of the game you want to focus only on being a mercinary to land huge cash and gear very fast. do not become king until you have at least 8 children and a decked out castle/town

I don't know if its the best but Saneopa has always treated me well, was my first fief and even after declaring a kingdom, never lost it. All the projects were finished (i got the achievement shortly after conquering it) and the prosperity was extremely high. The troops in the garrison leveled up so fast that I had roughly 450 legionaires in the garrison and was still making crazy good money. Everytime I went there to sell smithed weapons, they would have roughly 150k in the bank to buy it. Never seen a higher amount just chilling in a town

Personally I like holding Varcheg and Omor, it's easy to hold after you get set up and you got plenty food, best of all its one of the most important areas you need to hold imo

I remember Seonon being really good for me but I can't remember if it was already a great town or if I developed it to be

Hey sorry for commenting and asking a question so long after the video was posted. Thanks for the video, the summary is excellent. One question, what are your thoughts on Ortysia for the Western Empire? Location wise its a hotspot no doubt, but it has 8-9 villages (3 bound villages and 5-6 Castle villages) which I think is potentially the highest in the game. Again thanks for the excellent videos

I've taken Sanala when the opportunity was ripe, as my first town. I haven't declared myself a kingdom yet, still planning on taking a couple castles or another nearby town if it becomes available, before I make a bid for kingdomhood. I'm playing on the Seperatism mod, and while almost everyone else has shattered into warring factions, the thing that keeps me up at night is that the Sultanate of Bani Qilid or w/e, has almost all of the OG Aserai lands, and is by far the largest kingdom on the map right now.

As much as i like Tyal in sturgia for its look, the low starting Prosperity really makes it difficult to actually function as a home base.

Month ago: Sanala had 3 castle feeders, cant remember the names but: 1) your screen shot has Der Hawa (silver village) which is bound to the castle off to the left (name?); 2) Uqba Castle - has ubqa feeding it; 3) Medeni village also feeds Sanala (think that's Medeni castle). Sanala has 4 bound villages and 3 feeder villages (3 grain - great for beer, 2 date fruit - more pros, 1 silver and fish). Edit: 100% the best town in the game. Highest pros out of any town, I like the location - only 1 bandit camp and mid Aserai territory so you only really worry about aserai.

I play under the banner of Sturgia since a while. They attacked Baltakhand and won before I was part of them. Like a year later, they rebelled. However, Sturgia got the town back and gifted it to me, because I haven‘t had any castles/towns yet. The fun part is, I looked for a wife (lol) and I wanted to marry Svana. I won over 60 tournaments and had over 120,000 denars at that point. Of all people out there her father won the battle for Baltakhand, so I got the town and after that, for around 29,000 denars, his daughter 😂

I remember getting my first 2 towns after helping Valiens take Britannia down; and I expected it to be like Warband where I’m set for life basically on passive income; but nope they poor as shiz lol.

Vland - I agree but.... Galand/Pravand - long term I hate them (and most of vland) with a passion.... all because of the bandit camps... You go to war, come back to 5-10 bandit hideouts near your towns... again and again...

I wonder how this will change in the Calradia Expanded map. Lots of new cities although they haven't made new scenes.

Question: What's the best town from an ingame siege defense perspective? At the endgame with essentially too much money, so only consideration is defense and not prosperity

Is it actually beneficial to have 2 of the same workshops in a town? You mentioned having 2 wool weavers near the end and id always figured a non-compete strategy was what was best. Is that good to have multiple for the base game or the workshop mod? Excellent work as always thanks for your analysis!

Batt (once again month ago)... all there towns are horrible "starting" locations, in my opinion. With enough time to ramp-up, my picks would be: Best= Seonon - after years it was always my top pros for Batt. It had 3 castle feeders, I remember Rhemtoil being a wierd one, as both bound villages went to Seonon (one being grain) 2nd = Dunglanys - 2 castle feeds. Had 2 grain feeders so beer store was great. Also, 2nd in my Batt pros

Come to think of it, is there an overall top 5 towns? I'd say maybe Sanala, Pravend,, Mauranath, Epicrotea belong on that list.

I'd love to see what the worst cities are. But Sanala is EASILY #1. Well worth taking even if you aren't Aserai.

Do you have a list of which castle bound villages all towns have? Do you just track villagers in game to see where they take their goods?

I'm here trying to figure out why Dunlangys always has over 10,000 prosperity in the late game.

Can you provide or create a list of the top 10 cities? (Regardless of the countries)"?

If there was only one capital in all of Calradia, which would you choose?

So if I could choose any town, which is the best for prosperity?

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Favorite thing to do is take a rebel town and sell it lol

baltakhand you mention 6 Catles are bound .. is that possible ? . if 6 as mentioned which ?

Diathma is best

How would I even try to take galend without having an all out war with the vlandians? Could I somehow take it, make peace then join as a vassal?

Do you know why marunath(for me at least) gets negative food supply after a while? I find myself having to sell food there so it won't start negatively impacting the city

this is just his opinion, no numbers to back up his claims, so this is nothing really

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Ortysia has the highest prosperity

The best towns to own? All of them at once

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once you learn all the exploits in this game it becomes boring way too easy, this game after 4 days of playing nonestop is boring now im rich as fuck i own almost whole map and all the lords of every kingdom are best friends with me i attack murder and release keep repeating till your status is 100 with each lord then make peace, but the most important thing if you want power is to be a mercinary

awwww, not my fav Ortysia? ;(

Best town to own? ALL OF THEM 🤣

Thanks man, good info!