Updated mini-video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b7qkasdpneC2aXU.html I WILL BE UPDATING THIS VIDEO, BUT HERE IS THE RELEVANT INFO TO NOW AS OF ARIL 2021 This video is about a year old at this time, and there have been SOME changes - not a ton! A lot of the early things leading up to the point of creating your kingdom are still highly pertinent! The big difference is that NOW you can simply create a kingdom by becoming Clan Tier 4, going to the Kingdom Tab and selecting "Create a Kingdom." I will say though, if you follow this guide, RELEASE ANY AND ALL LORDS YOU CAPTURE. This will allow you to build your relations with the minor clans throughout Calradia. Then, when you Create your kingdom, you can quickly recruit those clans. What you're going to run into, if you just hit "create kingdom," is that a lot of the bigger Kingdoms are going to try to kill you off fast. So, you need to make sure you're ready to recruit minor clans to your Kingdom as fast as possible. IN ADDITION! Leading up to the creation of your kingdom, get your Steward and Leadership as high as possible. Steward can be maximized by having a high variety of food in your inventory and assigning yourself as Quartermaster in the Party Screen. In the most recent patches, this will SKY ROCKET, so don't worry about getting there before long. Leadership is a bit trickier, but not too hard. Become a vassal for any kingdom, find a companion that has high natural leadership and steward, make that companion lead their own party. From there, you'll create an army, and then summon that companion to you - it will cost you 0 influence and no influence to upkeep them, but you'll be able to run around and do everything you normally would while also gaining Leadership experience. I'm waiting for Patch v1.6 to hopefully update this guide, but if you have any questions, please feel free to ask! :)

When you have your own kingdom before you go recruiting clans its also a good idea to use some influence and pass policies that increase faction ruler army size and influence gain. These are best to do before you have clans because they generaly vote against it so if you do them when alone they will always pass, and you don´t lose relations with anyone of your clans.

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord - New Kingdom Guide Step 1: Gen an army of 10-15 units. (So that Looters dot mess with you.) Step 2: Run Trade Routes/Do Tournaments to get 5-6k Denars. Example 1: Empire Porros -> Pottery -> Lycaron Porros Lycaron Example 2: Khuzait Baltakhand -> Fish -> Makeb Baltakhand -> Flax - > Makeb Baltakhand -> Fur - > Makeb Baltakhand Fish -> Epicrotea/Rhotae Revyl -> Flax -> Epicrotea/Rhotae Example 4: Battania -> Sturgia/Empire Seonon -> Hardwood -> Varnovapol Example 5: Valndia Ocs Hall -> Iron Ore -> Sargot Ocs Hall -> Cow -> Sargot Ocs Hall -> Sheep -> Sargot Galend -> Fish -> Sargot Example 5: Aserai -> Vlandia/West & South Empire Askar -> Desert Horses -> Vlandia/West & South Empire Askar -> Aserai Horses -> Vlandia/West & South Empire Step 3: Recruit 20 units, Recruit Scout/Medic Companion. Good Medic (The Scholar) Best Scout (The Huntress) Good Medic/Rogue (The Black) Step 4: Kill Looters to upgrade units to T2 & T3, split the army per culture strengths: (Look out for looters with good prisoners) Examples: Vlandia: Cavalry/Crossbowmen Empire: Archers/Infantry Sturgia: Infantry/Archers Step 5: War with Minor Factions before they join a Kingdom. Difficulty: Empire: 1. Hidden Hand -Puppeteer - Infantry, Light Armor 2. Embers of the Flame -Oathkeeper - Infantry, Light Armor 3. Legion of the Betrayed -Triari - Good Armor, Thrown Weapons 4. Eleftheroi -Good Armor, Shock Cavalry, will destroy Infantry Battania: 1. Wolfskins -Light Armor, All-Archers, use shields and close in quickly Vlandia 1. Brotherhood of the Woods -Sprout, Light Armor, All Archers 2. Company of Golden Boar -Boar, Decent Armor/Shields, All-Crossbowmen Sturgia: 1. Forest People -Forester, All Archers, Decent Armor 2. Skolderbrovtva -Skolder, Good Armor, All Infantry, will destroy Cavalry 3. Lake Rats -Will recruit units from Skolder and other clans, wild card Khuzait: 1. Karakhergit -Horse Archers Aserai: 1. Jawal -Weak armor, Weak Shock Cavalry, Easy to kill with Horse Archers 2. Ben zilal -Horse Archers 3. Ghilman -Good Armor, Good Shock Cavalry Step 6: Marry a high Steward/Trade Hero to get a good Governor. (Does not count as Companion) Step 6.a: Talk to Hero, Ask to court Hero. Step 6.b: Leave the Castle/City and re-enter. Step 6.c: Get 3 charm successes with Hero. Step 6.d: Wait 1-2 days, talk to Hero. Step 6.e: Get 2 charm successes with Hero. Step 6.f: Pay dowry to the Hero's Father. (Click hand icon to offer minimum Denar amount) Step 6.g: Go collect your spouse. Step 7: Get to Clan T3, Recruit 100 units, do the main quest, Recruit Engineer Companion. Set-up passive income by Workshops/Caravans and save up some money, Store-up food. Step 8: Attack a weak kingdom with remote City/Castle. Step 9: Immediately rush to turn-in banner quest to Arzagos/Other Chick in Marunath/Empire City to make peace and save your new kingdom from annihilation. Step 10: Increase your influence, Increase your Garrison. Good Policies to increase Influence: Council of the Commons

I've wrecked my game by killing everyone in my path, making enemies of everyone by executing every imperial noble and clan leader I've ever encountered. I pledged to the Empire then left them, then made war against them, and have executed a lot of random leaders.I think I need to start over. LOL

Is there a way that a minor clan will leave a major faction or get dropped out?

Marriage: And don't worry you can cut her head if she doesn'y give you a male heir King Henry: Is for me ??

Best M&B guides on KZfaq. You're doing a great job.

Dont call camel riders terrible,they are doing their absolute best. Checked nexus, there is no barding for camels or elite camel cav mods yet. But there will be. Justice will be done.

Catch and release leaders to grind charm. Start doing this during the minor faction hunt. One of the perks really helps tell you what traits will help with persuasions.

When talking to your future spouse, you don’t have to leave after the initial introduction. Just walk right over to them for the first speech test.

One quick tip about finding the tournaments: if you reach a town and there is no tournament there, just enter the arena and talk to the dude there. You can ask hm if there are any tournaments in nearby cities and he will give you a hint about 2 tournaments in the vicinity. You can do the same after winning a tournament in a city, to figure out where you could go next for one.

Aserai and Khuzait mercs are the best to attack because you get horses faster IMO. Horses, Mules and Camels are the cornerstone of this game.

Eleftheroi = Eleftheri (drop the letter o when you spell it). It's greek and it means "free men". Really informative video btw! Keep the content coming!

I came for a *_Kingdom_* I stayed for the *THE VOICE!*

By the way. You deserve a Subscription. Your videos are really informative and interesting. I Haven't seen many KZfaqrs going in detail step by step what to do, covering a lot of important things, like you.

a good tip for when to siege your first fief; keep an eye on the notifications and wait until your target faction loses a major battle (many lords captured)

there is also strategy that I use for powerful kingdoms. When you go to war with a kingdom kill as many people as you can, take a weak settlement and then try to make peace with them. If you killed enough of them within that kingdom they should only take 1 coin to make peace with. you can also take other things with that one coin, it is super weird but it works

Lot of work you put in. As a new player; thank you! The learning curve just keeps going. Appreciated man!

Thank you so much! I’ve been struggling with what to actually do in Bannerlord! You’ve given my play through purpose. You da best

OMFG THANK YOU!!!! Finely! A Kingdom guide that explains the steps! I almost screwed this up, but now I know what to do. You so earned a subscribe.

This was actually super helpful! I was having difficulty progressing marriage in one of my last games, never thought of pursuing it earlier, and never even thought about fighting the other minor factions before they go mercenary. Thanks!

Subscribed. Thanks for making all of these awesome guides! I'm 21 hrs in to my first run, definitely have a lot of lessons learned. :)

This guide is detaily, very quick and easily to understand. Thank you very much indeed.

Been killing it filling the gaps in community knowledge, keep it up IS

You get trade route tips from the caravans btw, just sit outside the town and wait for the caravans and talk to them, make a note of them and type them in notepad for later use, each caravan will have one trade route tip. you cant catch up to them so you have to wait for them and talk to them as they approach the town

4:03 “Now Britannia has a lot of hardwood which is no pun intended.” I’m fucking dead bro

Thanks for the vid man, been waiting for this one and it was very helpful!

Just north of lycaron there is a wood village i hit up. 15-18g without variance during purchase. Sell at poros.

I had zero idea about the minor factions mechanic. Thank you so much! Now I don't have to do what we did in Warband and grind Sea Raiders all day.

I ended up grinding my smithing skill and been producing weapons that sell over 100k for which the down fall of that is the fact that no town has that much gold in reserves but even so I have my self and my companions all kitted out with high end equipment and their weapons I created for them to use and pretty much I'm sitting on almost 1 mil of gold and just been working on other skills, boosting renown and trying raise my clan tier.

Great stuff, especially the tidbits about the minor factions. I started against the Embers of the Flame and it was a cake walk.

Cheers for posting this. Mim going through this and I'm going to restart my game again because so many things I didn't know about

Me a seasoned mount and blade vet: *Ah, finally a worthy foe, this journey will be legendary!*

Yes, i am an Adult, but also yes, i laughed at the hardwood....... ....

Unbelievable guide, can tell a lot of work went into that, love it!

Man I have been addicted to this game. I currently smoking a cigar binge watching your guides! My game currently has 2 million and max level 180 army looking maybe to make my own nation. Keep up the great work! Thank you

good job bro. really enjoyed it. I think bannerlord needs to look at this video to give newer players some vision because with all of the playthroughs I went through I went straight for the big factions and would leave me disappointed. I didn't want to go to the vessel route. hope they make it clearer. also FYI in the trade interaction at 26:30 if you pick what you want then click the middle handshake it will give you an offer that ai would like. so you don't have to or give more.

holy crap 4600 denars for the dowry and you can get 1million denars just for her helmet...8D

Killing it with the content and guides, my dude.

Nice tutorial. For early trading I recommend players who are in the south look at starting from Quyaz area and sell to Poros area. As your wealth and carry capacity increases, start making it a loop from Quyaz (fish, flax) to Charas (Olives) to Orcs Hall (sell) then pick up random sale items like wood and iron on your way to Poros (sell). This loop run a few times will put you into the 100k wealth range very quickly. Poros and Orcs Hall (Purposely misspelled) always buy high on just about everything so they are good anchors for trade routes. The long trade route is to give time for villages to replenish their coffers.

There's also a mod that skips the quests and even tutorials so you can create a kingdom right away

I always get too into trading in the early game each time I start a new character, and I've noticed trading values are very fluid. A guide for trading I think will never be able to be detailed, which I think is great. What I have noticed is consistent though is cheap horses in Aserai and Khuzait lands. Where to sell them is much less stable, just check the prices at every city you go to, you'll eventually be able to sell them. There's not any downside to having a ton of horses unless you really go overboard. Cows in east Sturgia and north Khuzait lands always seem to be extremely profitable as well. I buy any cows for

Dude this is insanely good. You've earned a sub, my friend.

Hunt the Hand!! Hells yes. Great tip matey.

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i guess the amount of aproaches to play this game is endless. i always get the starting gold by doing quest (hidout and poacher ones pay good amounts). also for minor factions i would hunt the stronger ones and recruit their troops. for the aserai the ones you rated 2nd hardest offer you horse archers early on in the game, which are a t5 unit for the aserai so you wont have a lot early on, but i think thats more of a roleplaying thing :D deff. learned a thing or two.

Really helpful guide! Thank you so much for this

Really well done video, subbed buddy. Looking forward to seeing more vids!

Not sure if this was changed in 1.3 or not however, you cannot take any settlement you wish for the Dragons Banner quest line. Arzagos requires a non-imperial settlement while Istiana requires an imperial settlement. Taking something like Ustokol I'm Sturgia and will not allow you to turn the quest into Istania. Sort of backward thinking as you are weakening your allies.

My issue isn’t starting a kingdom, it’s right after, when your party limit is around 200 and your enemies are all at strength 3000ish or so. When I capture anything they just send an army with 800 troops to take it back, when I imprison a lord he escapes before I can even put him in my city, which they also escape from daily. The escaped lords pull full stacks out of their ass to do it all over again. I mean I could take one fief, immediately pay for peace and repeat but that seems cheesy.

Great video. Glad you made a small little mention when you say the smith. Smithing is such a fun part part of the game. Also tournaments, agreed. I had one character that just went from town to town doing tournaments at every town he gets to. I won about a third of them without saving and retrying every time - because I like role playing. The dude had great equipment pretty soon, and then I started betting money on the tournaments as well, can make a ton of money early game. However you might be tempted to save before starting a tournament, which breaks the immersion of the game, and MB is a great game to immersed into for me. So if you don't want to cheese it, just put 150 in the first round which will be 600 winnings if you win. Also not too bad if you lose.

Thanks for all the guides, streams and yea everything you been doing Sparty. Its been giving me alot of watch while being locked down these days!

Tip, find a city with towns that produce grain and build a brewery, I have four workshops, all in different cities that have towns producing grain and I'm getting a consistent 600-400, the smithy is also producing well, I've found that things like the Olive Press and Silver (Jewellery) workshops just don't turn a profit.

"Really hungering for that hardwood"

You are an amazing channel my friend, thank you for the great videos, seriously

Thank you very much man! Great video! Have putted 200+ Hours already into the game but those tips are the best !!!!!!! Big up!

Great guides! The trade route can get a little boring but once you get to the point where prices are color coded and rumors are more accurate you can start to make some serious income. It may have been patched but at one point I was buying every steppe horse I could in kuzait territory then crossing the entire map and dumping them all in vlandia for a very healthy profit.

Is the clan in sturgia that's hungry for hardwood? Are they the beaver clan :)

Fantastic guide. Thank you sir. Subbed.

Superb guide chap, effort was well worth it. One thing not sure you picked up on, the janky conversation choices have % chance to the right of the option showing success chance based on nobles attributes. Just about to hit the point of land and marriage, absolutely fumbling my way round but chuffed to see I did plenty you recommended early doors.

I just saved 15,000 for a trade route, then it snowballed until I had 3 trade routes and 350k. Then I did whatever

It's pronounced eleftheree and it means "the free ones" in Greek

Once again, amazing work!

Thanks. Very interesting. I'm new to the game so I am sure I will be revisiting a number of times!!

Being a vassal before making your kingdom is a decent strategy as well, I built up 3 castles and 2 cities, got an awesome income, skilled companions, and then split from the kingdom, it immediately started a war because I chose to keep my lands, then you talk with either person for the dragon banner and the war is over. It does carry the risk that you lose quite alot of relations with the faction you left because you kept your fiefs, but if you mooch up to them alot while you're a vassal it can end up still positive, I will admit though that I didn't plan my location well...smack dab in the middle of the northern and southern empires and battania, whoops

Don't warry about it not being the absolute best one... Me: looking for Jaim the Scholar and Laitha the Leopardess everywhere

I'm new to the game and this video helped a lot. Thank you!

thanks for the guide, good job

Is there any difference between creating an Imperial Kingdom vs a non-Imperial Kingdom? What does that mean?

The % text next to the marriage text is the percentage of that message working

What I would seriously recommend that I don't see anyone doing is to focus on stewardship, just tag your self as such in the party management and have food variety and its as easy to level as 1 skill per day early on. Benefits? Larger party size up to +40 at skill 100. And the bonusses you get is even more party size and cash from holdings.

Thanks mate I’ll definitely do this in my second play through I reckon

Hey, not sure if you still play this but the whole quest has changed and some of the things have changed at the end can you please make an updated video

24:00 imagine if it was this easy in real life, save scumming everytime you got rejected. Basically your own version of Groundhog Day xD

Excellent. One of the best. Thank you.

You dont have to leave the castle after initiating courtship. As soon as they say your name is added to the list and walk off, speak to them again and you have the 'its great to spend time with you again' option instantly. Basically saves you a few loading screens

I like playing in a slow pace, grinding a lot. Will this game be something for me or will I be passed by enemies teaming up against me or generally grow faster?

29:30 "make sure you have a good deal of income" the income: *-855 per day*

Really helpful tips, thanks

Thank you - a REALLY good guide.

The first time I've actually cared about being early xd Also, another great video, as always

You have to create a kingdom in the first 731 days or you fail the quest due to "not completed in ten years"

Really great video, I wish I had this when I had started. 👍

An amazing way to get like 10k easily at the start. You wait outside a town for villagers to come, then, once they leave the town, talk to them and buy all their horses. Then go in your inventory, slaughter all the horses, and bam. Sell the meat and hides to the city you waited outside of and STONKS

do NOT buy mules and pack horses, buy the super cheap old work horses from caravans either in cities or intercepting caravans returning to their home town. Way cheaper and unless they fixed it, pack animals don't add a movement bonus to troops.

ItalianSpartacus: You should have finished the Folly quest. Me: **Laughs in modded that shit out**

Thank you so much for this

if you have rougery you can sneak into a town buy all its food and the besiege it, this really makes many sieges of cities trivial

29:32 "Tons of kids too" >only has two Me: *laughs in 8*

how you just gonna skip over the fact that the empire sieged your 30 garrison castle with 500 dudes and then you smashcut to being at peace

If you have your own settlement it’s sometimes better to wait before you create your own kingdom, because if you are a kingdom others can declare war on you, if you have a settlement as a CLAN you only can declare war to others. Hope you consider this.

What a great video! A must watch even if ur done it allready never tought of minor factions thank you so much for getting this out will help me alot in my next stream :) Ps: sorry for the shameless plug but its just a fakt that i love to use ur tipps since im pretty new to m&b ty again!! :)

I came to the comments for the “hard wood” jokes... you disappoint me yt.

I'm bald and bearded and I approve this video

Good work. Thank you

My favourite trade route is Galen -> Jaculan (both have so much Olives and it is cheap) then I run to Sargot and then to the Imperial cities, all of them have a high demand for Olives.

The attempt at pronouncing Varnovapol made me sub..

I like a lot this game but the damn crashes makes me frustrated...

Thanks man, that is really helpfull

The best guide on KZfaq ever!