Crazy how this kind of thing goes unnoticed but God forbid you have a profitable workshop late game

Wooden hammers and pitchforks give 3 wood when smelted and are a great way to source hardwood mid to late game.

One major tip I'd like to add: You can gather the thousands of crafting materials much faster by buying tons of weapons and smelting them down. You will need very high smithing, both for the amount of smelting you'll have to do, and so you can make expensive weapons to offset the cost of the weapons you're buying. Low tier weapons such as falchions and iron spathas are amazing for getting wrought iron. Pugios and throwing daggers are really really good for getting a little bit of everything (including fine steel) and they cost like 300-400 each. I've found that by doing this, not only am I gathering materials very quickly, but I'm also not losing any money at all. In fact I'm making money by smithing along the way. I'd highly recommend this method for gathering the materials. (Also having more companions helps a lot with smelting. Plus you'll be giving them all good XP for their overall level)

If you attack the caravan after you sell all those materials your roguery will level similar to what you just did in trade. Depending on cunning level and skill multiplier.

Great breakdown! I'd be interested to see a video explaining how and why AI empires decide to declare war on one another. The amount of times I've seen Battania attack Vlandia and then get obliterated, only to do it again and again until they're completely destroyed, makes me wonder what they're thinking under those messy mops of barbarian hair.

Ok, so that explains what happened in my game. I followed your caravan exploit guide but I didn't have 5 focus points and 8 attributes point in trade / soc yet and I had insane amounts of materials to trade - it was red capped when done. When I leveled up next, I put an attribute point in SOC but trade stayed red capped. I didn't understand why at the time. So, the new question becomes: At what point can you stop investing attribute and focus points and still hit the 300 trade for the perk with minimal investment? Can it be done with only 5 or 6 attribute points or with 8 attribute and only 3 or 4 focus points?

Smithing is so bugged it borders cheating. Just cheat money at this point.

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You can also do this with leadership and or Rougery if you do it with bandit. You just stack alot of troops and don't upgrade them until you're at the sweet spot of the green bar. Then upgrade everyone in one go. I upgraded 1000+ soldiers and got 350 ish.

ok so, I put that last comment to the test a bit. charm has no real value past 275, but leadership does scale at +1 troop past 250 skill, as the 275 perk. so that has value! I checked a couple saves. first problem became apparent. most saves into a campaign is already capped. I went back to a day 1000, early kingdom save, and was already at 258 leadership, with 7att/5 focus. this is already down to 3.75rate. perhaps we can intentionally delay leadership gain by NOT putting focus points into it. hold them. 7/2 would cap at 168, 7/3 caps at 208. so we might be able to hold onto our focus points, and invest in them at once, and try this trick to get max exp. but with that 3.75 rate I still decided to test it. The easy part. had a 450ish man party myself, 350 man garrison, and 3 clan parties I was able to call it. go to a town, pull them all it. leave town, so you can "talk to party leader" take all their troops, immediately go back inside. empty the garrison. no time moves, I was able to easily hit 1109man party. Just pulling the garrison, and companion troops into my party already gave me 220 troops ready to upgrade. respec to allow weapon/armor discard/donation. gear that I already had increased me to 321 troops to upgrade. buying weapons, off market to donate, 450 troops to upgrade. small problem. I actually have another 100 or so troops that need horses to upgrade.. I don't have enough. so, 450 troops at once, at 258 leadership, 3.75 learning rate. 7att/5 focus gives me..... 1 skill level. 32k exp. so I think this is a bust. even if we got it up to 1500 troops at once, even if we had 10 learning rate. that'd only be like 5 maybe up to 10 skill points.

wow haha. practical value is of course zero. spend 3million to get 3% reduced trade penalty. haha. What other skills have potential massive 1 time boosts? charm. can we donate 3-5m worth of weapons to a lord and get over 330 charm? is there a way to do prison escape, or releasing lords for a 1 time boost? What about leadership? could we mass recruit troops, garrisons, companions. shift them around, getting them exp, then storing them in garrisons, etc.. then take them all back at once, balloon our party up to like 2000, and then mass upgrade them all at once for a massive leadership gain? Probably could have mentioned the actual hard code cap is 1023 iirc.

@hero_on_youtube Just wanted to share I recently tried it out. Got trading up to 550 and also robbed the caravan after that and got roguery up to 160 (with just 1 attribute and 2 focus points) and excellent tip for when we change main character to the heir Btw, do you post more on discord ?

i like bannerlords skill system, but warband just feels so much less complicated so you can focus on other things

Might be losing my mind but your idiolect sounds eerily similar to Flesson's, albeit with a deeper voice. The cadence of the videos and style of information delivery is similar too

Whaaaat????? !!!!! 400???!!!

Short answer: No, you cannot go beyond 330 with any skill unless you modded it. It is hard coded to stop at 330

Yeah i hate crafting, once you craft a weapon the game will continue to re-create copies of said design, until every city & every caravan in Calradia will be stuffed to the brim with them. The worst part is that merchants inventories are permanent, once it's in the circulation it's never going away, even if you try to buy back everything you crafted and smelt it down it will re-appear. Besides the crafting system is under-developed as you cant craft ranged weapons like bows or forge your self some armor, while the game can simply spawn such items of legendary and masterwork quality, even those you cant craft your self.

Heroic turnover :D

damn