Great stuff as always, sir. I have a play through I’ve been saving for final release. In which I captured Saneopa from a rebel faction while at Clan tier 2. And will need some help turning things around there. Slash, the ai doesn’t know how to respond to my ownership of land prior to forming a Kingdom either, and it’s hilarious.

@@Woogsie Nice! I really like the area around Saneopa, it's a good place to be. Hopefully they get full release done in the next 6 months or so, it would be amazing (modders can really get to work at that point!)

In which version do you only have 10 days construction time? I remember it being a lot longer than that.

@@marijn8057 It's all the base game with no mods. There are a few factors here to consider: - High loyalty gives a construction bonus. - High engineering skill governor gives a huge bonus. - Low level buildings don't upgrade quickly due to low cost. - Governor had some construction speed perks (I can't recall for certain which ones). - Reserve fund has denars in it, so +50 construction per day helps a ton. You can boost up construction significantly if you have the right setup!

When you clear the garrison out and set wages to 100, did you lose troops? I left all my highest tier level troops in a garrison that had about 2k garrison wages, set wages to 100, and noticed that I got a -3 or so garrison per day before I realized a lost a dozen fian champions.

Lol on the bright side, I get a new one with higher chance of spitting out more kiddos :D

im dying!

@@Strat-Guides Christ mate, your blood runs cold lol

Probably killed her too mate...

..... and her

Espionage at its finest 😂

Bro makes game of thrones look like child play

@@VIKRAMKIDZ GoT is child play, Here you are Bannerlord.

Based

I also regret not going empire on my first run through. That loyalty bonus is such a big plus not to mention the cheaper garrisons. Only downside is slower prosperity gain due empire culture hearth growth penalty but honestly that is nothing compared to the loyalty penalty all the non empire factions get (on all towns except a few)

Wow thanks man. My wife has been a bit naggy lately. I gotta give that a try.

Actually I think your way of doing it is much better, I totally forgot about the death rates for prison breaks. That's a great idea! That could be a great way to get a good spouse too... Look for the right candidate, capture their spouse, dump them in prison, leave mercenary contract, "break them out" and let them get offed and then go to work woo-ing their spouse, profit :D

@@Strat-Guides wait. Could this be also way to kill all lords without suffering the relationship penalties of execution? Might be too much work.

@@penoiseinnadota7353 no rest for the wicked

"prison breaks are fun/challenging" dam rights years ago, accidentally stumbled across this in warband... i was grinning ear to ear "yaaas, something different and interesting to do!"

Thank you! It just takes time and practice :) I found that just playing will help, but deliberately setting a few minutes of time each you play and just practice one specific thing can make a MASSIVE difference. The problem with just playing is that it's hard to learn from the mistakes when they come up once every 10 - 15 minutes, it takes longer for my brain to make that connection, but if I do 5 minutes of JUST blocking or only chamber blocking, then I find I can catch on within a week or less and really master it in less than a month. It sucks to have to practice a video game lol but for me the rewards were totally worth it! I also have a combat guide, not sure if you've seen it yet but that has a lot of info that might be helpful: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o5yIpJdptNGan40.html

I have been completely stomped twice already. Once because I was super noob (first 30min of playing, died to looters). Then my second defeat was do to miss clicking when pillaging a town, and didn’t my party to move fast enough. Game is fun as hell, love trying out different units and just seeing which ones SURVIVE my tactics lol. Loving the Imperial Legionaries. They are tough as nails!

@@NotTheBomb Absolutely glad you are enjoying the game. My first death I immediately sent my looters on horses into a squad of other looters and we all promptly died. I thought it would be like first person total war not thinking about how none of us had armor and we all had shitty horses. We all perished under a mass of stones and I almost quit the game forever.

​@@SilverBioWolf I've made horrible mistakes, still in my first playthrough. Became a vassal to early, possess a low prosp city, already dealing with conspiracy bull crud. While also trying to save a dying empire. It's pain.

Thanks! I think I was around 2k hours when I made this guide and I didn't know at least 50% of the info I covered in the guide lol TW maths is crazy

What is the other video you are referring to? Link plz??

@@Cowboys777 Sorry, it's been a while and I don't recall the other one. However, if you watch his Bannerlord guides, the are all awesome. He knows so much.

No problem! Lol TaleWorlds gonna start reducing the learning rate soon :P

I'm happy to help! I used to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week so I know what it's like to not have much time but still want to enjoy a good gaming session. I've had many guides help me in the past, so just trying to pay that back :D

Oh good, it always make me happy to hear that others are getting use out of these videos :) Have a great weekend!

Thank you for watching! I still have a lot of room to improve so please let me know if you see something that isn't quite right or can be tweaked :)

Yeah these are all great points. Once the warfront has moved, I will often times drain my garrisons to zero and just rake in the Denars! Or leave recruiting on and get easy refills.

I mean that's kinda the point of a castle

It takes so long to get max/last trade perk tho without exploits

Like stupidly long. That and medicine.

Thank you for watching!! I'm glad to hear the guide is helpful :D

I wish the tool tips in the manage screen did what they said they did, I was a little bummed to see it gave only a flat bonus. I'm glad the video was helpful though!

Only one problem with your strategy, taleworlds idiotic ai will make your allies raid the villages of the town/Castle you're besieging

@@sezione Literally one of the most annoying things in the game, probably good to try to call them into the army if you've got the influence to do so.

@@micyjoejoe5820 afraid you only get and can afford to spend a limited amount of influence unless you spend 5-6 in game years just saving it up and that's so much fun... not...

@@sezione This is for after a successful siege not during the siege.

@@aemonwarrick4654 you mean it's after a siege where the ai, whether your allies or another faction at war with your victim don't come poking their noses in your future villages

It's partly for my own sanity - but partly for yours as well :) These things are dense!

Thanks for watching, glad it helped!

Thank you for watching!

I've noticed that taking/stabilizing a fief is much harder when you're a vassal. Doing this as your own kingdom is significantly easier because you can control the length of the war. As a vassal, you just have to wait it out until they get tired of being beat up lol

Thank you for watching both :D There are a ton of small options available that are really hard to find unless you just spend time staring at random screens lol so I understand how easy they are to miss! I'm planning on a bandit playthrough for the next series and I plan on showing how powerful it can be to take out villagers and raid villages. You can really bring a town to it's knees!

Haha I can honestly say that's the first time in my life someone has called me or my work epic. Feels good man :D

Thank you!! I need to get caught up and get trade perks done, but I will probably do the companion guide next.

Much appreciated :) Hopefully this one was helpful!

I'm glad it was helpful, thank you for watching :D

That's actually going to be the next series of videos, so perfect timing! :D I'm finishing up the perks guides this month, then onto that series. I'm going to be testing all unit types, army compositions, formations, etc. to see which should be used and when. I'll be experimenting and trying all sorts of combinations to see how many good options there are for us to use.

Thanks! Hopefully the info is helpful in your campaign.

Thank you and welcome to the channel! :D

Yes finally, we are both happy this one is done lol These fief guides were so mentally draining to make for some reason?

I had that. Took a while to discover the auto recruit and unlimited wage thing. I've now completely stuffed my garrisons with the Tier 5/6 troops that I use as a backup reserve, but it did allow me a while of not losing quite as much money to build up my funds and whatnot.

Build up loyalty, to above revolt danger, then either build up the milita if your at risk of attack or the security, followed by the other one, then finally build speed, prosperity & hearths

Aw yeeeah :D I really wanted this one to be short, like around 12 minutes but I couldn't cut anything else out lol I tried my best!

@@Strat-Guides the more the merrier!

Yeah that's the tough part. Charm isn't so bad, but leadership is really tough!

Yeah it's a little strange they fix it at 100% for that. I don't usually play long enough for my kids to grow up so it's not normally an issue, but I can understand why for a longer game it would get very annoying. I also think they should add some sort of culture conversion mechanic to the game.

@@Strat-Guidesthat would be very cool

Thank you!

Hahaha My wife watches these videos sometime so hopefully I don't end up on the couch for a week :D

Haha yeah well they didn't give us any other options :) Thank you!!

Ideally when you're at war you're in a kingdom with other nobles already. I've found it beneficial to have your companion parties pick up the slack for you, maybe even use your own troops and give them to companions temporarily (though they may lose them). This could offset loss of denars as you're already using those troops. Basically, let the AI fend for itself for a while. Once those denars start rolling in from your long-term investment it's worth it. Also consider how much of an issue a rebellion could pose, further exhausting your kingdom and possibly losing the fiefdom for your clan if the vote goes awry.

Hahaha I guess it's all part of medieval tactics :P Yeah the war part is tricky, although there isn't really much you can do other than waiting it out and trying to force peace. I had initially included a section on that, but then edited it out because it's more covering war-time tactics and not fief management - but basically it's just a matter of building up the defenders so that it doesn't look like a target to the AI. They base their siege decision on proximity and number of defenders. Once you get loyalty above 25 then you can leave the fief to defend against raids too, but aside from that, just a TON of waiting and hoping you have support to call for peace lol

Whoa 5 in 30 mins! That's really good. Glad my video could help!

Yeah for sure! I've been getting a ton of people asking for that, so I'm moving it up to the top of the list. I'm finishing up the trade perks guide this weekend and I'll start work on that one after :D It's a very big topic so might take me more than one week to get through it, but we will see!

@@Strat-Guides I’m exited, I’ve been bingeing your content recently as I get back into the game

@@thisguy9569 Nice, welcome back!! I'll do my best to get that out before the end of the month with the rest of the perk guides :)

Yeah it's a little excessive IMO, but if you want to keep that wrong culture fief then it's what is required :) It almost makes charm and leadership required for those 2 perks.

@@Strat-Guides second video of yours I have watched and learned something even after all the time I put in. I appreciate you deep diving these systems. Taleworlds should show you some love for sure.

@@christophermccarty7461 It would be nice to actually talk to a dev at some point lol I've tried a couple times and got nothing :P

@@Strat-Guides hopefully they come around my friend. Could turn these into a formal series and it would help the players a lot

@@christophermccarty7461 I've seen their social media employee pick up a few of the videos, but it seems really random so who knows what their strategy is lol Seems like more TaleWorlds math to me :D

Thank you for watching! :D

Thank you for watching :D I try to respect everyone's time by keeping them as short as can be without cutting info. LOL they don't leave us with any other option, it had to be done!

I really hope they implement something like that. In EU4, culture changing takes forever to do, but it can be done so maybe they can implement something like that? Thank you!

Thank you for watching! :D I'm planning on starting a second channel for more Let's plays and streaming a couple days per week. This channel will be dedicated to the highly edited type of content and the other will be long form as I get a decent amount of requests for that, but I don't want to mix the two. Hopefully that will be helpful!

@@Strat-Guides dope, I'll keep an eye out for when that happens. Was binging your Robyn hood series

@@felipeegoavil3969 I really liked that playthrough! It was my first video series ever so the editing was really bad lol but it was fun. I've been experimenting lately with a similar style like that, but more like Halcylion's Rock Bottom start (literally nothing, no food, money, weapons and war with everyone) and I've been able to get up and running within a few days most of the time! I would love to turn that into a solo World conquest (no kingdom, no other nobles, just the one family clan) but we will see!

Thank you! You've actually got the exact topic for the next series starting in February :D It's going to be called Bannerlord Battlefield Tactics and we are going to do a deep dive into unit comparisons, formations, army compositions, all sorts of odd-ball tactics to use, etc. so we should be able to uncover some great insights! I'm super excited to start this series because if there is one thing that never get's old, it's testing the battles :)

@@Strat-Guides That's awesome! Can't wait to see it. Thanks for the reply!

@@Strat-Guideslove your tactics vids. Best on all of KZfaq for those for sure. Although, I have found a couple other accounts that are helpful for things like Caravans, workshops, companions, changes from patch to patch, etc. But your videos are by far the most detailed & data driven. & your tactics & unit videos are just awesome. Probably tough to keep the videos relevant tho through all the changes every patch update. Still a greatly helpful resource of info, and great for getting ideas for tactics & what to do. Honestly your videos were & are prob more helpful than the actual in game tutorial 😂🤦🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

To be fair, I didn't even realize there was a garrison tab (under parties) for several hundred hours lol! They don't really explain anything so it's no surprise :D Thank you for watching!!

Haha I guess I need to "divorce" 70 year olds more often in the guides :)

Nice, welcome to the channel!! I'm glad to hear you are enjoying things so far :D So I don't have anything else at the moment, just KZfaq. I have plans on doing some streaming soon, posting those streams as VODs and then chopping them up into highly edited videos as well so that everyone can watch the style they prefer. I'm glad you asked lol perfect timing! Once the perks guides are done, my plans are to transition into the next series where I will be testing all units in the game, all formations, different battle field tactics, army compositions, etc. It's going to be a huge project and I'm not 100% sure how I'm going to split things up just yet, but yes that's the next step!

@@Strat-Guides So glad to hear that big projects are coming! You have made learning Bannerlord fun and easy Btw is this channel exclusive to Bannerlord content or are you planning to feature more games? And we cannot wait for the stream schedule :)

@@zakimubarak7862 I'm glad to hear that! So I do plan on branching out into other games at some point, but not sure when the right time will be. I played a ton of EU4 and will probably stick to strategy type games. Who knows, I'm open to all kinds :D

Sorry for the delay, it really took a lot longer than I thought it would. I had to redo more than half of it because I wasn't happy with how it turned out. I cut back a bit on the editing so I could focus on the information and get it out in a reasonable time. Hopefully it's still good!

It's only been 6 days! Chill out and be patient! Content creators have lives too!

@@JacksonOwex lol I think the issue is there shouldn't have been an episode 2, but I underestimated how much information was going to be in it. Then I did the same with episode 2 lol!! I thought maybe 12 minutes tops, but even after cutting a few things it's still over 20 minutes. Hopefully it turned out okay still!

@@Strat-Guides Strat your videos are always great :)

@@JacksonOwex dude why did you roast me, i just expressed my happiness for the fact that the part 2 came out...

As to the second part - I believe that obviously the villages produce food themselves related to hearths (3 level system) and the villages will send out their villager parties (size based on hearths) to trade with the town. They will offload their goods and restock the town (so food-producing villages are really helpful, especially grain producers). You should be able to see the new goods in the trading menu. This is why more hearths matters a lot. Larger villages produce more goods and food, and their larger parties won't die to bandits. Hope this helps!

Thank you! The income from the village is based on the type of good produced and the amount produced. The amount produced is directly tied to the hearth levels, so 1-199, 200-599, 600+. The graph would be stair-step with income jumping at those thresholds. I didn't notice anything related to the villages earning tax as it seemed exclusively from product sales. I'll have to test it though, not sure how I could control for that... I'll think about it! The food is supplied in the back screen so it's passively done. When the villagers get ganked, they lose the cash and the village will need to spend hearths to replace them at 0.5 hearths per villager.

Great explanation joejoe, thank you! That's a great point, if it's a food production village, then the food being sold in town will add to the food supply.

@@Strat-Guides Sure thing Strat. I was bored and thought I may as well help explain some stuff since I had some free time.

I'm happy to help! Thank you for watching :)

You can get there with a little practice! I was terrible when I first started Bannerlord lol I couldn't block anything :P I made a combat guide, not sure if you've seen it yet but it's worth a watch: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o5yIpJdptNGan40.html

@@Strat-Guides I SEEN’T IT… lol I def will be watching most of your vids again because they are very detailed. Thanks for what you’ve done.

@@jxslayz6663 LOL I have not seen that movie in such a long time. My favorite was the car scene "You just got killed by a Daewoo Lanos M@#%@" hahaha brings back good memories. :D

Lol luckily my IRL wife didn't watch this one :)

Lol I still can't believe I whiffed the first shot. He's literally 5 feet away sitting in a chair :P Got EEEEMMM!

Hm... I would have to think about that for a bit because I can't think of anything obvious. If it rebels and you take it back, you could sack it and reduce prosperity some, but I really don't think that helps. High prosperity isn't an issue unless you lose a lot of food production (like losing a village tier or building upgrade from being sacked). Starving only gives -1 loyalty debuff so it's usually not a death sentence. Having a rebel town within your kingdom would be interesting, I guess you could train your engineering without worrying about anything lol

Yeah for sure! It's high up on the list of priorities as I get asked about this a lot.

No problem! Thank you for watching :D

What was quick about this can I ask? Was this stuff added in an update and he put this guide out right after the update or something?

Thank you for watching!!

Yeah, but it's eventually stabilized by housing costs and the lack of excess food will mostly shut down prosperity gain. As well as this, as village hearths grow they'll offset the food loss, so it's good to keep irrigation going if everything else is sorted out.

I understand where you're coming from, it's frustrating to deal with starvation. Especially when you're so close to starving even when at full food production. I agree with joejoe, I mostly use irrigation or train militia for daily default - both have no downside since hearths can grow to infinity and militia cost nothing to maintain!

Pass Hunting Rights for increased food production and Road Tolls for reduced prosperity at all fiefs. That way, as long as you aren't running Housing as your daily default in a high prosperity, fully built fief then they won't starve from out growing their food supply as joejoe and Strat mention. You'll hit an equilibrium point for your food at the max prosperity for that fief. Even for fiefs with 75+ loyalty, they won't have runaway prosperity because the +0.5 prosperity high loyalty bonus doesn't apply if the fief is eating into it's food reserves (even if it's -0.01), thus prosperity will decrease by 0.2 from road tolls and food will go back to even or up a small amount because of that downward prosperity tick. Keep in mind to watch out for governor perks that increase prosperity outright and it may be worth it to repeal Imperial Towns at that time if you have it passed.

@@knightfall13 That's a great point, as long as the modifier is very small (like -0.2) it won't be whipping around like a fire hose with nobody holding onto it lol. It can ease back and forth between the equilibrium points.

I don't have plans for being a mercenary specifically, but I did have plans to do a beginners guide series and one of the videos will focus mercenary, vassal, clan tier etc. so that might help. I'll try to help out with these though! 1) So my best piece of advice is to either never join AI armies OR be very aware and bail when you see bad things about to happen. You can join battles after they already started. What I usually do is manually follow the army around and wait for them to get into a fight, then join in if it's a good one or leave them be if they are outclassed. When you join the fight, you will maintain control of your party, but if you want the AI to take them and just control your own troops, F6 will let them join the AI formations. 2) In a big battle that's mostly controlled by the AI, it shouldn't make a huge difference as the AI controlling troops is generally bad. If you have control over a big chunk of troops, then it could be bad, like fighting with just your troops - the AI will usually do stupid things and get them all killed lol. 3) If you're inside the army, you're stuck. You go down with the ship lol. If you do as I mentioned above, you can join and leave as you wish. This is really good for those battles that are close - you can abandon it once all is lost, but before it's over and run away. 4) There shouldn't be any different between the two - it's all determined by how many kills your party gets. There is a "pot" that everyone pulls from once the battle is over, so if you get 10% of the kills then you will get roughly 10% of the loot, renown, morale gain, influence, etc. Not all kills are equal, higher tier units give more than lower tier. Joining ongoing is the way to go IMO. You do get a small amount of influence for being part of an army, so if you want, just join them, but leave before the engagement starts and then join up separately. 5) You might need to clarify this one a bit more because I'm not sure what you're asking - are you referring to specific things to do on the battlefield or on the campaign map etc? A little more context will help me give you a better answer. I hope this helps!!

@@Strat-Guides thanks this helps a ton. The one thing I’m finding inconsistent is what I have control over when I join an ongoing battle. Sometimes I have my party, but sometimes I have like 5 troops. Maybe that’s unit limit and they’d come on later? Anytime I’m actually in the army I get control of only one unit, but not my party always, and I can’t do anything else at the deployment screen.

@@alphamore3554 Yeah that's exactly it! If there are more units in the battle than the unit limit, they will filer in as troops die out. I think it's percentage based as well, so if there are 2k units, 1k unit cap on the field at once and you bring 500 troops, then you'll only have 250 to start with. I'm not positive on the exact number but it seems to be like that.

Lol! What the heck was his diet?! I would love to know the trick to longevity :)

@@Strat-Guides no idea but he was a Rebel Against Stugia who i am a vassal of he was my greatest enemy we fought many times

@@Strat-Guides obviously tubs of butter

@@Strat-Guides Injecting toddler blood full of stem cells is the way to go.

Dang! She aged awfully well -- like aged wine. I'm seeing her in this video and I can't help but think, "She looks fine." 🥰😘😍 Why do I get the feeling that she's Matheld's ancestor? 😳🤨🤔

I'm in the final editing stage for the trade perks! It's been a little slow because of family visiting this weekend, but I'm hoping to get it out by end of the day today. 1. I think the 2H swords are a bit better for close range melee combat (like shield wall or sieges) and polearms are better everywhere else because of the range and damage. That said, you can make a short polearm that performs well at close range, but you can't make a 2H sword to perform well at long range. Even the axes fall short. 2. Fief are by far the most profitable when ran properly. Workshops are great early game before you can get to owning a fief and building it up. Caravans are really bad in the current patch. Hopefully they get fixed! 3. There are so few camels in the game it's hard to say, but interesting topic! I had not thought about that one yet. 4. I have plans to do some tier lists once I finish off a few more guides :D

Thank you!! It sounds like you have not watching my earlier videos where I had no clue what I was doing :P

@@Strat-Guides ... He's onto me...

@@ChukN0r41s Lol busted! It's okay, they are pretty bad. Especially the Robin Hood play through. It's a really good concept and set of rules, but the execution and editing was BAD :P

It's a tricky balance to do until all available food upgrades are done. I would say the easiest way to balance would be reducing the garrison. You can swap out low tier troops for higher tier ones to keep security high if needed. I would put 100% of my focus on getting the orchard/garden upgraded to 3 and then leave it on irrigation until comfortably above 600. If the town is starving at full food production, then garrison needs to be reduced. You can always switch to "train militia" daily default for defenders if you need them. If prosperity is still going up even with a food deficit, then it means the prosperity is really low for where that fief should be. There are mechanics in the game to keep all numbers in check, so if you leave the fief alone for 100 years, it will reach it's natural equilibrium given the garrison, buildings, etc. that are currently there. That's not to say it will stay exactly at 10k or whatever the number is, it will ping pong back and forth within a small range but it should be quite stable. Hopefully this wasn't more confusing lol

@@Strat-Guides Super helpful as always! I'm just getting to the part in my playthrough where I'm trying to manage a significant portion of land and this was my first time really trying to make everything well maintained and running into this issue. The garrison reduction is a great idea until I can get a good stock of food, thank you!

Thank you! :D Nice, how do you like the crossbow? I have not used it nearly as much as the bow, but I really like it when on horseback. On foot it's a little tough because the reload movement.

@@Strat-Guides oh its rather op. You can walk around during the second half of reloading, but towards higher skill levels you can pop like 15 to 20 people before they even get to you, starting at say 120(steps?). But what's more is the aiming becomes easy as heck at higher levels almost like a first person shooter. I carried over its use from warband as it was a solo seige breaker. Same kinda applies in bannerlord. Kill a good 35 soldiers before the ladders are up

@@ProffessorYellow For some reason I always gravitate towards the bow, but I think I will have to use crossbow for the next run :)

Yeah it is a bug, I think they are aware of it as I've seen it on the Forums before. Hopefully they get it patched up soon!

The only other way is riding + scouting perks to reduce escape chance by 100%

@Strat Gaming yeah I sat in a town and had 4 parties a day going to raid it. It was comical. My new save though I decided to capture a few towns and castles as a vassal and get them all gifted to me and they're all bordering eachother so it's a nice little pocket of influence. Then I rebelled and made peace immediately. Since you can't be attacked while you're not a kingdom I just waited and spent time building them up and training my governors. Now I'm a kingdom with the right perks and it's not an issue anymore, except in the opening stages til I capture enough lords. Also setting my clans parties with nothing but cavalry and having them in defensive mode, they chase off most raiding parties especially since all my fiefs are close to one another.

Hm... Yeah I don't recall that happening in my testing so it could be the mod? I know what you mean, it's especially frustrating when you get the companion party setup with a ton of cav, then you check the garrison and they dropped half of them off... Lol now I got to chase them down and manually give them back!

That's a great question. I need to run tests on it, but from my experience, high tier archers perform extremely well as do shock troops. You still need some shields to survive against arrows, but those 2 will dominate.

Haha let's hope mine doesn't watch this one :P

Thank you for watching :)

Save up lots of cash, start a kingdom, pay people off if they declare on you and hire people as quickly as you can. Once you get 2 or 3 you should be fine for a heads up war.

I just tested it, that's correct. It's a stairstep graph that jumps every 20 and doesn't seem to have any fractions in between (rounding error). There were some perks that change food consumption for garrison troops, but only during a siege so not that all that useful for the majority of the game.

@@Strat-Guides Understood, and thank you for testing it. All of your Bannerlord guides are excellent series, really well done!

Lol I tried to keep her in the middle for all to see, she caught a javelin right to the face :D For sure, the combat system in this game is so much fun, it could be a stand alone game.

Wow nice, I'm glad it was helpful! I think the biggest thing for me is babysitting them when they are freshly taken, draining the garrison until they can afford it and get those militia numbers up to help deter the little parties from coming by.

@@Strat-Guides You helped me a lot sir! Thank you very much for your awesome guides! By the way, I now have 128k denars hahahah

So only those 2 that I mentioned will work - one from leadership and one from charm. They will only work when you're present in the town and the only time it matters is when the "daily tick" happens, so you can leave the fief and come back right before the tick and still have the perks work. If I recall, the loyalty perk does not work unless you own the town and the security one will work no matter who owns it. Governor perks will never work for the main character so ignore those when picking perks. I hope that cleared it up, but if not let me know and I can try to go into more detail. Thanks for watching and helping with the algorithm!

Correct, the AI will do stupid things and not put the loyalty daily default on to stop the rebellion. The only chance you have to stop the rebellions in your kingdom is to pass all of the good loyalty boosting policies since they are will for the AI as well as your own. You can get +4 or higher with the right policies, which means no matter what the AI does they will not rebel.

Great question! Governor perks will only work for companions and they only active when that companion is assigned as the governor - so it won't work if they are just present in the fief. Just ignore governor perks for the main character.

Great question - I looked at that myself as well and the village doesn't actually interact with goods in it's trade screen. They simply generate on a daily tick and are hauled away when the numbers for certain good reach their internal limit. The only useful part about this is that you can dump goods and equipment at villages you own and they will slowly filter that into your bank account. No work on your part :)

@@Strat-Guides Thx man 🙂 As always much appreciated!