IGNORE WHAT OUR NAME LOOKS LIKE ON THE OVERWORLD MAP LOL Building this fort took A LOT of jank, let me tell ya! I think it came out as well as it could - what do you think?

3:15 - That's not clay in the houses. It's wattle and daub. Basically a mixture of straw, mud and/or cowshit pressed in to a wickerwork frame then plastered over.

Started watching this channel with the start of Manor Lords and now i'm waiting everyday for a new episode. Hats off to you for this great content!

Sir, your Manor Lords streams are far more superior than all of the others. No offense to the other content creators, but I love how you used historical examples for your town development. It makes your villages look so much nicer than other streamers!

22:30 Just wanted to say, I feel like the reason your soldiers have bad efficiency is because you always have them run everywhere and are also putting them in push forward mode. Running to positions makes your soldiers exhausted, indicated by the yellow exhaustion bar. Pushing forward lowers your troop efficiency by making them disorganised, while heightening their aggression and risk of dying. And I think retinue particularly suffer from exhaustion because of their heavy armour.

20:20 "We have to tax our population because this guy has way more swag than everybody else." 10/10 Historical Accuracy on Feudal Aristocracy 🤣

That mercenary company, the Wayward Sons, was my submission on the Manor Lords discord server about a year and a half ago! The idea is that they're recently 'exiled' French Jews, who were historically kicked out of the country by the crown in the late 14th century. They've come to this part of the world and are trying to pass themselves off as French rather than Jewish so that they can live with less harassment.

You have created a "Weiler" near the claying pit. Another village form. They were founded on the edge or inside forests. Very often to produce charcoal. Therefore they were instrumental for expanding the available farming and usable land. In general they were very small settlements which slowly did grow into villages, as "Strassendoerfer". (Street villages). You can see their origin in their contemporary names: Weierweiler, Rappweiler, Muenchweiler etc. etc.

It’s crazy how when zoomed out I would swear the landscape was “real life”.

Love the fact that you respect the historical and geographic context in your build. Such a good series

I think your Manor Lords videos are clearly the best (entertaining AND educational) and I've been watching several channels in preparation for the release date. Thank you for your good work on this series.

Really hope the dev adds proper castle fortifications, Stronghold style. Please Slavic!

I'm just gonna say this. you've made alot great playthroughs but this one has stolen my heart! learning about cultural dynamics and city planning of the medieval age while watching the beautiful landscape being worked and built is wonderful!

The potential of this game is just absurd. I really hope the developer keeps releasing content, like stone castles, horses and knights, bigger battles, AI cities and fortifications, proper cities and so much more. The groundwork is there, the architecture is solid, and the potential is really vast.

Absolutely love this series. Adore your titbits of knowledge about German medieval history. Literally learnt and started reading about Ostsiedlung because of you. Thanks for the wonderful content!

Uploaded this literally a minute after I checked to see if it was up haha glad I checked back in. You play the game very well, great content bro!

Finally someone with a plan, I watch a few other channels and they just free hand everything no order to their village. Your building with a purpose and will be watching also I just subscribed. Keep up the great work 👍🏻

I appreciate the historical approach you brought to this; as we plebs wait out the release date I've been watching various content and so many "gamify" their builds resulting in horribly inefficient villages that have all sorts of issues with logistics. Then I watch your videos and everything "works" likely because you are following techniques that were developed as a direct result of the sorts of systems being modeled. Looking forward to building my own models of what you've been showing us!

This is by far the best looking playthrough I've seen so far. The attention to historical accuracy is really interesting and highlights cultural differences with Britain for example. In Britain, the villages by law had to have a central 'green' area that was a common pasture for all the village. Every villager had the right to pasture their livestock on the green without having to own land. I hope when the game finally releases they plan on introducing functionality such as common pasture land and may be a muster field for the militia to practice and drill on. Having stables for cavalry would also be nice.

There are tons of instances in the port fortresses in the South of France for instance where the well had to be built awkwardly far from the core of the castle simply because the only defensible hill had no readily available freshwater nearby

I just wanted to tell you how much I absolutely love your Manor Lords series. I love all the fascinating history that you share. Also, I think the Manor House compound is so well done. Bravo!

By far my favorite let's play of this game. Organic looking villages with a dash of actual historic knowledge. Thank you OPB!

Amazing job cheesing the castle builder. Love to see it. I would like to suggest clearing more trees near the wall. Attackers can climb them, fell them over the wall, or put them on fire, also they make the ’watching’ task of the watchtowers a bit more difficuilt.

Theres a lot of the architecture in this game present in kingdom come deliverance. The mills, the lvl 1 and 2 houses, the tavern, the charcoal burner site, the churches, the way burgage plots in kcd also serve as artisans, farms, chichen coups, etc. Amazing attention to detail by both games.

I hope that as the game progresses castle building will be added, as that would be amazing. Still remember the old Stronghold days with happy nostalgia.

I think over time, in the game will be added the ability to build castles, choose the size of maps (small, medium, large and huge), rivers and watermills to them as one of the development options, bridges, etc, or it's just my wishes😁

BEST videos on Manor Lords, your extensive knowledge of the time period makes it so much more interesting, I could listen to you talk about history for hours and I honestly listen to many many different history channels, you have a great knack for clear explanations even when interrupted by the most amazing banner flag ever and your G'd out Knight haha, Im watching all the Manor Lord streams like Raptor etc and the Fort/Manor you built is by far the greatest on KZfaq.. you figured out the hack and now all of us who got to watch your videos are going to be making the best castles! Keep it up man!

Its more effective to be defensive when your men are tired or have walked some distance. Pushing is better when you have full energy or if the enemy is smaller in size. None of those things are things I tried, those are only assumptions and combat seems to be a complex and dynamic element of this game. If anybody knows more about how it works is free to clarify it.

You and this game are just the perfect combination. Love your mix of gameplay and history lessons.

Recently found your channel while viewing all the Manor Lord videos I can find, I’m enjoying this series and I’ll be dropping a subscription!

Absolutely love and appreciate all the effort you put into the historical background of the regoin, it's people and their customs. It sets you apart from all the others making Manor Lords videos. Subscribed!

I mean, I can't stop watching these. Your series is SO interesting man ! Thank you so much for bringing Historical accuracies to Manor Lords, it is so cool !

Maybe a Church inside the Castle Town would be nice.

This is medieval content!

You can raise taxes by single digits by manually typing the number into the white box, not using the arrow keys.

Beautiful jank!

22:24 their efficiency is so low because you had them run all the way up there. There's a 'run' button in the unit UI that seems to be on by default. Running causes their efficiency to go down. Efficiency is basically the unit's stamina.

Love what you have done so far. Can't wait to see it progress. Thank you.

I’ve started folk since you started this series and I’m hooked!! I’m tuned in everyday!!

Just insane how this game has been made by such a small team. Really goes to show that passion, heart, and hard work can crush the multi-million dollar companies any day.

Uploaded this JUST as my break started. Perfection.

I honestly really appreciate the history you put into this content. Edutainment at its finest!

More and more and more love this serie so far

Loving this series!!!

Lets go, just came to check if there's anything new and here is the video!

Just wanted to say I really love this series.

Stumbled into your channel because of manor lords, decided to stay because of all the history nerdery. I really enjoy this!

history lessons about mainland Europe and a beautiful game, great videos. Glad you popped up in my recommended.

22:35 Jorg had so much drip the lord himself came out to see him fight.

Amazing series!!!

Awesome video!!!

I'm glad I only learned about this game last month so I didn't have to wait as long as most people for this game's release. I can't wait to start playing the full game.

GG great fortification! I absolutely love your overall settlement. Looks so authentic. I aim to replicate the multiple locations design. Possibly with a themed Vill in each region I take over? Thats another dimension of ML chess I havent seen done yet.

my favorite playthrough of this game so far!

your vids are very informative, i like it

great pleasure watching you play this game with an aesthetic focus, fellow bavarian

Great content! I hope that you can build a manor like that in future updates

really loving this series! I think you should've put a hitching post and pasture in the castle though, for the lords animals and for somewhere to protect livestock during a raid.

castle building should defiantly be the first content pack to the game increasing the scale to baronies

This is the best Manor Lords content on YT.

Really cool history lesson today!

Your fort is actually a fairly close approximation of a British hill fort. These were common in the iron age, especially in the south of England, and I expect some were possibly still used in the dark ages. They were very large, communal, fortified settlements built atop high hills, usually with palisades built on top of high earthen banks to make them extra difficult to assault. It's thought that they were usually occupied by whole farming communities, who would work on the surrounding lands and then store their harvests within the safety of the walls, so that if neighbours decided to try to attack them, they would have a safe, fortified, well-stocked place to retreat into and defend from.

Honestly. I love the hang to realism!

WOW that looks awesome

Started watching this channel for the video game, and now I’m coming back for the real Germanic history. 😊

Honestly, would really love pointers or recommendations for learning more about the historical parts you talk about. Really interesting.

Pity about the limitation on the Castle Area. Hopefully, the Manor/Keep can be an entity on it's own from the Devs down the road. Then expanding outwards to create say a Shell Keep, then a curtain wall, outer bailey etc. ie Basically all variants of a fortified manor/keep/castle enclosure

superb video

Having the 'serf houses' in the Manor-Keep rearing goats, chickens and vegetables would track for a fortified holding area. The extra food would, arguably, be the Lord's meats and vegetables, grown by the serfs.

Fun fact: Someone else explained the lvl1 buildings are not clay but historically a mixture of mud, animal waster, and straw, mixed together like clay/concrete mix and applied over woven branches like the fences.

Loving your Manor grounds. But two things that you might like to add. A stables. Lords liked to get on horses for hunting etc. And secondly a small church/chapel as the Lord didn't want to have to mix with the peasants when praying.

Haven't figured out if this is a game preview or an interesting documentary on Medieval history. Really enjoying the series.

Another good reason to maybe cut down the tree line around the fortification is plain visability. Projecting power is a major aspect of it but when it comes to actual defending and fighting you want to have a large and unobstructed view from the castle to aid your archers and prevent the enemy from approaching in cover

Very cool

You made a Burgh. King Alfred made them when the vikings where being a pain. That bow technique is beautiful finally right. And you built a palisade

this has become apart of my morning routine

I believe you're not employing people in the new church 😂 Honestly, what a series. I love how you play these games, man.

I love this series almost as much as your victoria 3 videos lol

'We've got to tax our villagers, because this guy has way more swag than the others'. That's medieval history in a nutshell :')

Amazing video and content my guy!! I just wanna knit pick here, that armor style is more mid to late 1300 instead of 1400s, I think the game is set in the later 14th century?

Great vid as always OPB. Out of curiosity, where would the graveyard be in those historical settlement plans? Obviously there would be a small churchyard around the church itself, but if and when that got full, where would those burials take place?

The British castles in this era were Norman Motte and Bailey castles with then later added moats, stone curtain walls and keeps. They were both living and fighting quarters, and used as barracks and for power projection.

nice work

Love it!! When you are talking about hohenvelt does the inspiration for the name come from hohenfels in todays upper palatinate - regensburg area?

I’m having a vision, a premonition of the future. I see Bavarian making a video that is a shot for shot remake inspired by the cinematic intro from Kingdom Come: Deliverance, with the music rising as it zooms into and then over the manor on its cliff top.

Appreciate the history lesson very informative a wonderful combination of education and entertainment. Kinda interesting that lords are like farmer farmers in a way. Love the way video games can foster positive leadership traits like understanding the past is so important going into the future because people rise and fall and stuff and you never know when you might need these random skills like a zombie apocalypse or after a flood and it’s good to preserve it In practical ways like games where people can not only have fun but be custodians of our history that’s still very much alive in a dynamic world where you still have so many different systems of governance and levels of technology from tribal to people landing on the moon and who knows maybe these kind of things will be how people settle new solar systems at first with similar practices of community idk I’m tired don’t know if I’m expressing myself coherently. Anyway good stuff high quality content.

Something that hasn't been brought up is the lord's approval rating. Allowing some independence to the Sorbs has kept them happy, and naturally the German settlers are also satisfied with their quality of life.

Loving the historical accuracy, but my one point of contention is that you would not have that much forest so close to the town and fortification. Forest provides easy terrain for enemies to sneak up on a village and so you would usually cut down atleast a 50-100m wide strip around the village and manor. Also most of the forest around a village would have been cut down anyway to provide timber for the construction of the village

I'm literally gooning to this footage

I think the English fortified manors were a lot like how you are describing also - although they would have needed a "licence to crenellate" to fortify their manor. So a big house for the lord with great hall and apartments, maybe a moat or wall around it, Then there would be peasants farming outside, deer park for venison. A little mini-town around the manor to serve it. That's presumably what the "manor" in-game is trying to be - just the main house - but I agree with you, not being able to build a big enclosed walled area and put a mini-town inside is annoying. Sometimes you want an actual motte-and-bailey.

The guys living in your manor are both your retinue (poorer knights serving the manor lord militarily in exchange for a living and wages), your servants (peasants working in and around your manor doing various tasks) and your ministerialis (bound courtly servants of higher status than the peasant ones). The guys serving in the archer militia can be both ministerialis and peasant servants, you can equip and order your ministerialis in the game to serve in your retinue. The retinue/ministerialis/servants line was blurred at times.

HYPE THE 🏰🏰

this series is literally the reason manor lords is the most wishlisted game on steam lmao

Put the church in the manor fortification. Cosmetically impressive

only a few more days of waiting!

Would love to see more defensive buildings, guard posts, legal tolls and like you mentioned bandit's that try to extort a toll rather than outright attacking

33:12 You should upgrade 1 house to level up and have a smithy workshop for weapons

Every day is a good day, atleast if there is a new OPB video

I hope that this becomes the default mode of castle building in Manor Lords!

No kidding, I would pay full-game price for a castle DLC in which we can get a full-on castle builder in this game.