One PRO tip: Before you decide to wage war on some faction, and take their Town, do this: Before you declare war (or attack some of their troops)go to the target town. Buy all food, then declare war and start the siege. Garnison without food will die off in a matter of days and you have an easier job to take it. The next step is crucial. Once you take the town, before all caravans enter into town YOU sell all your food and earn a lot of money and gain huge XP.

When you do the "Hostile Trader" and the town troops drop, don't attack. Let them Rebel, then attack. Once a Town Rebels, the Loyalty resets to 100. After you take it, you won't have to work as hard to restore it.

man you're a hustler. so many vids, so quickly. greatly helped me in calradia, but I realize now Ive been seduced by "everything has a price". Put 8 attribute in social bc of that, but it'll lever happen.

Great guide - thank you ! You weren't kidding when you called the series the "Ultimate Guides". The experience and wisdom gained after viewing your guides (and reading the comments) equates to hundreds of hours of game time. Seeing how complete (and "Ultimate" your guides are... for your sake as a content creator, I hope Devs will make some changes. Otherwise you may eventually find yourself hard-pressed to find new content :) Good job!

The hostile trader strategy was actually the cause of a near financial panic in 1907. I mean it didnt involve rebel gangs but just barely. A pair of financial brothers who owned a bank and were the founders of United Copper tried to corner the copper market by grabbing all the stock of United Copper, concocting a plan to basically speculate on it at a lower price and using insider trading to drive the price down before that(at least this is what I think the plan was.) The plan backfired, price went up, they were forced to cover the cost difference because speculation is just gambling, and when the plan failed the bank they ran also failed, they were ruined and they were unable to pay out to their customers so a domino effect happened. The situation was only bailed out when JP Morgan held a meeting with other top financial leaders and was able to "convince" them to help..... meaning he locked a group of bankers in with him and refused to let them go until they agreed to put up the money to stabilize the situation. He also put his personal money up to buy all the New York City Bonds to make sure the city did not become insolvent as during the panic people were cashing out their bonds as fast as they could, worried they would be worthless soon- this isnt blind panic, these people had all lived through the multiple financial crises of the late 1800s, including what would be known as the great depression had the 1929 crash not happened. Because of this the federal government was then able to step in to do the rest, but at the speed of bureaucracy there's no way they would have triaged the situation in time like Morgan was able to. Remember when bankers actually cared about people? Seems really foreign and almost fictional, doesn't it?

This is really impressive work. And not just this guide, but all your guides. Solid analysis and great, straightforward production packed with so much information that I find myself frequently stopping the playback and re-watching to take it all in. I've got 1700+ hours on Steam playing Bannerlord through the many iterations now and I can clearly confirm: Strat's guides ARE in fact Ultimate Guides. Top notch!

Been watching your channel for awhile now and I am simply amazed at the amount of effort and work you put into these videos. Your knowledge and statistical expertise is incredible. Every time I watch one of your episodes I learn new techniques while gaining a better understanding of how this magnificent game works. Thank you for your labor of love that helps all of us.

Your guides are the best! Can you do one how to manage a newly captured settlement??

Also need guide for 1. town-castle-village management, how to have lots of food, what building to prioritize , what does security, prosperity means 2.seige guide, late game 4 trebuchet does not seem to be enough, infantry gets stuck on the ladder while I am getting murdered 3.policy guide- best policies for world domination, which policy are must haves 4.vassal guide-how many fiefs are enough for a vassal, how to snatch every castle and town after victory from vassals for myself 5.game AI guide, the AI seems to have unlimited army, I destroy an army of 600 after few days they are with another army, 6.hostile faction guide (looters, mountain bandits)- tired of cleaning up my area , their spawning rate and requirements for spawning 7.faction guide. which faction is the most powerful in this current patch 8.speed guide, both party and individual

Thank you for always putting out all these great guides!

Keep up the good content! Definitely helpful, appreciate all the hard work you are doing :)

I have a slow yet efficient strategy, buy pack animals (preferably mules because they are more expensive) and go to the city states that don't produce horses and sell the mules: 1. First gather about 3-4k mules, once you pass level 20 most Aserai and Khazuit horse farmers will have hundreds of mules, and then start your migration. 2. Sell the mules so that the city gold marker doesn't go in the negative, make sure it has no less then 0 - 20g. 3. DO NOT LEAVE THE CITY, wait in the city for about 2 days and buy back your mules. 4. Go to another city -state and repeat steps 1 - 3 SIDE NOTE: If you continue to find mules and pack horses that are around the 20-30g price range per animal you can buy then along the way and slaughter them for meat and sell it in cities that lack food. Also it helps if you are not at war with any faction and have around 100 troops to keep the looters and bandits away. This method is slow but once you're around 200 trade I found it to be the most efficient. And also easy.

Bro for the record I liked the intro, however not if it took lots of time from you. Love your content man, and absolutely love the bonuses at the end of each vid. Keep up the good work!

Finally, the long awaited Trade guide! This guide is huge with a ton of info, but hopefully it's not too much! I did my best to chop out anything that wasn't absolutely necessary. Also, let me know what you think of the editing for the fight during the intro. It took a while to figure out, but I'm not sure if I like it or not... I'm curious how you feel about it - do more of it, don't care either way or never do it again?? Thank you as always for you support. I'll be working on the Intelligence skills next week, starting with Steward so stay tuned next Friday!

You are the M&B GURU! Love your content dude! Keep em coming!

You and Flesson19 are great for mb2 community, you guys definitely deserve more subs... C'mon youtube algorithm bless this channel, also thank you for the work, your content is S tier

Love your stuff, thanks man!

I got lucky. The northern Khuziat town was selling mules for 20 and had hundreds. Apparently the were shortages everywhere cause I went and sold most of it for 150, some were over 200.

That intro, man. You are seriously talented with your editing. You have an eye for a cinematic action style.

Another fantastic guide. Great work!

For players wanting a fast way to get to Trade 300 using the skills in your video... This can be done without leaving the city by “playing the market” - Ideally, you should have 50-100+ of each horse tier: pack animals (sumpter horses/mules); T1 Horses (riding horses); T2 Horses (war horses). Of course, it can be done with a single type of horse, but it’s easier to prepare for with several horse-types. - You will also need approx. 500k-1mil Dinar reserve (or smithing to recoup losses by selling weapons to the city) - Find a city with relatively high prices on horses categories (usually Vlandia or northern part of Battania) The procedure is fairly simple: 1. Sell to make profit: Sell each type of horse to the city while still “in the green” (still making money on the trade). End transaction. 2. Decrease prices: Sell all remaining horses to the city to reduce the price (The more horses you sell the lower the price will be for the next round and the more profits you will make). End transaction. 3. Increase demand/price: Buy all of the horses from the city to raise prices and prepare for your next round of selling. (This is where you will lose some money. It is possible to min/max quantities but it’s time consuming). End transaction. 4. Repeat the process. It’s important to end each transaction before starting the next one. The game calculates experience 1XP for every 2 Dinars in profit. By lowering the prices in Step2 and then raising the price in Step3 you will create maximum profit margin by for selling to city in Step1. Basically, it’s like going to Aserai lands, buying horses and returning to sell in Vlandia/Battania, but without leaving the city - time saved but some costs involved.

Great guide man. Keep up the good work !!!!

This so SOOOO good. I've been trading since day 2 with this character and debating making the trek from my home in Vlandia to Aserai territory for $$. Definitely doing this ASAP.

Been binging these guides! Just wanted to say that I picked the exact same banner when I started my Midas character.

From my experience (I just reached 300 trade on my current save) pack animals are one of the best trade goods, especially for early game. Buy them in khuzait and then roam across the map (not necessarily to aserai who have pretty cheap pack animals too) selling them. You need a decent army (tier 1 troops with minimum wage will do) to avoid herd penalty.

never click on a video faster. Love this series!

bro this was surgical, I'm impressed.

Another great guide!

Amazing work! suscribed!

Very informative, excellent guide!

Decided to try a trader run.. I've only done smithing since I love it, but it's still broke even in 1.7, so it's way too easy to fund an army and get endgame gear as a simple vassal/ merc.. I appreciate your content bro!

At 4:22 , the profit was 12.2% more if having level 300 against having level 1. This percentage depends on how much the normal profit you get from the transaction - if you buy with 10 and sell with only 11, the increase in profit due to trading level 300 is growing at 45% (sell price is 11.22, which returns 1,144,889) . If selling with 20, the increase in profit is lower (20.4 sell price, 2081616 total profit, which means +8%) . So it helps more if the sell price is not that high compared with the buy price. Buying with 10 and selling with 15 is a good average. Great video, I want to see the black box of mechanics cracked :)

Great channel, nice job!

Bro you crazy, and its amazzing thank you

Awesome guide :D

very good explanation

Found your channel yesterday, really like your style, thanks for the videos

1) 5:10 percentages were off you put .34% but said 3.4%. 2) 11:10 early game trading horses from Aserai to Vlandia/Battania is amazing, I can get 125 trade in just about 30 day easily and make 100k-200k even more when I buy other goods to take along, at early game starting in battannia, you can double your money trading mules in 3 days. 3) would have loved to see a section on perks as they are vital to a trader. but for a quick guide compared to my monster 90 minute video, well done. GET SOME SLEEP

Thanks!

It's insane how good this is. I'm glad to see flesson comments as I was going to say almost exactly what he did but he saved me the trouble! Intro editing: I love almost any effects to highlight achievements on the battlefield. That said- strobing is not one I PERSONALLY like. I have some neurological issues and it can really bother my eyes and give me terrible headaches. But that's just me my dude. I really like about anything that makes it seem unique and makes good kills seem all the better. I do really like when you do the slow mo effect when you do something good in battle. It really highlights the achievement. Now get some needed sleep sir! And make sure your wife doesn't get too annoyed at you 😂😳🧠

These guides are very nice

Should include the village trade xp exploit. Buy all of a trade good to raise the price, sell all to tank the price and buy them back to reset the purchase price, then take the cheap goods to a village of the town with hyper inflation. Sell your goods for max profit but no money to just buy trade xp. Like this, buy 3k grain and force the price from 3 den to 40 den. Sell at a close town to tank the grain back to 3 den, buy it back at 3 den. Take grain to village of original town for 30 den per grain. The Denars wont change at villages, although you dont get money. So sell 3k grain from 3den for 30 den each. That is 27 xp per grain. Raw 81 000 trade xp. Add the xp multiplier of say... 10 that's 810 000 trade xp. Do it with horses for easier profit.

Thanks for the trade color indicator. I’ve been doing it backwards!! 🙈 😂

informativ as always

So while I didn't find anything new here, maybe you'll be interested in what I was looking for: - How town cash reserve is estimated. I've noticed that cities where I sold overpriced smithing goods have much higher cash later on than ones in which I mostly sold legit goods. - Single town: measure garrison (quality as well as quantity), and Cornicopia-starve them. You can starve a city by drowning them in variety of foods. If food is in green, city will buy it off the market and boost prosperity, this is meant to balance hearth growth. But if you flood the market and then stop - the city will enter starvation process. What troops do they lose and how long until the process stops? - Village economy sabotage: buying local goods and selling horses, wine, furs, tools and velvet (probably others, but these were stated explicitly in patch notes) boosts the village. But what happens if you sell your equipment there? What happens if you leave the village with no goods to sell or no money? - Village economy maintenance: reverse of the above. When you enter a village as an army, other parties tend to buy out local food to 0, but only if it's a friendly village. Does it help to leave some food after such accidental raid, or does lack of food not affect the village? Village economy: when villagers travel to a city does a set of goods get generated to sell, and then what they purchase - or do they actually take goods out of a village, buy actual goods in city and try getting them to the village? High prosperity villages will often have ie cows, cheese and butter. Is it possible to give a boost by ie selling livestock where grain is made, how long if at all does livestock stay in village? Does selling non-rpduced food item increase the amount that'll be available to deliver to city? High/low prices - what are the effects on caravans, villages (connects to the above, do villagers actually SELL their items based on current pricing) if we take care to keep prices low/high within same spectrum. Taking Tyal as example - do we help the city by keeping the fish price at 9 or 12 over a given period of time? How if at all does long term price affect city prosperity and it's villages hearths? Will caravans still buy the 12g fish in same amount or would 9 price yield better results as goods instead of gold is measured for the city-agent? What if we only buy at city, what if we only buy at villages? I'm pretty amazed how much is already in the game, and TBH it actually makes me want to take a crack at modding just to implement some gameplay effects for which there is already foundation laid out within the game. Particular dream: equipment sold at villages that is then used by militia.

Hi, love your videos. great guide, but one thing i didnt see you cover (might be wrong). But I have experienced that you should sell to the town first then exit the vendor window and reenter it to buy goods, as trade skill seems to increase the higher the amout denars you earn is. As in you dont buy and sell at the same time but you do it in 2 seperate actions.

The flashing lights at the start almost gave me a seizure. I closed my eyes fast enough to avoid it. Btw I would recommend picking up the herd perk in the rider skill tree. It reduces heard penalty by 50% (rounded up.) It pretty much lets you stay around 5.1- 3 movement speed with as many horses, livestock, and pack animals as you can afford. This also means that your carry capacity is pretty much void, since you won't have to worry about the overburden penalty.

the golden trade route seneon to marunath buy mules and sumpter when passing sen and sell them in mar very easy to level up trading with little effort every time you pass that direction

Greatness in the making.

these thumbnails are great :))

Hi great video and excellent analysis, i appreciated your work for quite some time now. but i wonder what programm did you used for making the analysis, could you share it? thank you in advance keep up the good work that you put out for us have a nice day brother

Great video ! Did you ever end up sharing that datasheet with all the productions, values, etc ?

Smash a like when i see a new guide from Strat, these are amazing just because of the effort that he puts into cration! Such great content man, good luck in everything

another video idea is playthrough perks commenting on what perks to take for conquest, diplomatic, trade and other types of play, one for general, and perhaps benefits of some in combination, as well as a party character perk setup for playthroughs and for ones to employ then make lords. How about winning without force or trade? What if somebody wanted to rule the world as the Sturgian Surgeon by maximizing on health as their prime objective? Don't let the Prussians forget Brandenburg :) Does leading an army of your clan increase leadership as much as having outsiders in the army? In this case does size matter?

Selling horses doesn't seem to work now, I couldn't find a single Asrai horse and the other types I did buy were not easy to make a profit off of...

In my latest run I got started with trading horses. I ended up accidentally buying about 3500 sumpter horses for around 8-30 each and proceeded to sell them for ridiculous prices after crawling across the map towards valandia

It makes me sad that there isn't more intelligence to the town markets. Being able to starve a settlement by constantly buying all their food should not be possible.

You know this game better than the developers XD Great video, thanks for the fantastic resource!

Hi any chance for sn updated guide ? Thanks in advance and thanks for all your good work!

First person melee combat looks insane after watching that intro lol

It's been a while since I subbed to a channel. Here ya go. On a side note, do you have any thoughts about the better areas to set up a workshop? Would it be better to set up a Wine workshop in a high grape density area, or lower density area? Legit wondering.

Subscribed.

great video you got a new sub

i do what you call the hostile trade attack. I call it a Golden Wall attack, but i focus on causing the town to revolt. Then i attack the town when it is basically defenseless, doing it this way i dont end up at war with any major faction. The total number of enemy lord i end up fighting will be 3 at most, and they will be starting with small armies.

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stonks!!!!

Thanks Strat

Another brilliant guide! You wouldn't happen to have that trade goods database laying around somewhere would ya? ;)

Eh. Pretty much what seemed obvious to me. Except for the horses, I never considered them a trade good. Still, if you want to have a complete set of guides, you might as well include this. :)

The Hostile Capitalist is devious, ingenious and absolutely profitable.

Not sure where you got the idea that grapes are only in the west, they're all over Aserai.

Ah yes, the good old Aserai Horse Run...a staple of any Bannerlord Trade playthrough.

14:08 You can also wait just outside the gates of the city and buy all the food from caravans and villager parties, that way the food you buy will cost a lot less and you can sell small amounts of food at night for massive profits, as neither villagers nor caravans tend to travel at night. You don't even need to buy the food back, the city will starve regardless, but you will always gain massive profits from every good you sell.

I had no idea you could view categories when trading in towns. 300 hours and iv been scrolling all the way down every time 🤦‍♂️

I don't know why but I lost it when he said "these greedy bastards."

Love the Jeff Bezos character xD Horses are indeed good for trading but too many horses implies a herd penalty on campaign speed though, so I guess it will be really annoying in some cases, right? (like you are on a commercial run, but your kingdom is suddenly attacked by a powerful neighbour, you have to get home the quickiest way possible) Anyway interesting videos. Thanks for the work :)

"Money can't buy you happiness" Me: You ever see a sad person on a jet ski?

my only question is for the green for sales, when I buy products at a green price its usually expensive, and when I sell them on a red price its usually cheap, Mules that I bought for 140, can sell them at 61 and 61 is in red (also the mules were too expensive but I needed these)

On the whole seller opinion, if you aren't focusing trade, appraiser is superior since it increases loot profits, if you are pumping trade to buy fiefs, whole seller is way better since it increases xp gain

are there any economy mods something showing that prices are below average prices and another color showing prices are high?

The combat intro was cool, but I'm glad I do not have reactions from the reciprocation. I wonder if it stimulates seizures?

I wonder if you can cook the economy by buying workshops, changing their type then selling them again.

I like that last part about the hostile trade, i used a similar method to get settlements without causing wars (pre kingdom) I have a question, i’ve been super frustrated lately on trying to start my own kingdom but the sudden pouring of war declarations and insanely high tribute payments really make me go back to a previous save How long would it take to achieve say 10 million denars? Currently im at 400k with about four settlements, and five workshops - i want to get good with trading to achieve this money

I'm impress by the Airtable play. You're the first person I know who actually uses their GUI lol. Or am I wrong?

Mules are great to buy as well, you can buy it for 40d and sell for 200d

Hang on, at 12:25 you say 'red is the best' for selling. But that clearly isn't, perhaps not anymore? I dunno, I've just started learning the whole trading thing in this game, but all the items that have a red price in my inventory when in a town are much lower than what they are at green in other towns? Same when buying, red = high price (don't buy at red, costs too much). They probably updated it so a green price when buying = cheap, and when selling the green = making the most money.

So I think I’m not selling in high enough quantities but I sell armor, horses, food items all the time. I have 1 caravan and the only time my trade xp went up was from buying and selling for trade rumors within a very quick amount of time. I tried selling iron, steel, wrought iron bars. Which I saw as highlighted “green” and my trade xp did not go up after selling 5 each. So what am I doing wrong? Also on Xbox if that matters

Have you noticed some nonsense concerning average price et marked %? Multiple times, when I buy a certain quantity of the same good, while the price increase as it should, the marked % goes backward. For exemple: starting price of oil is 30d, being market at -50% but when I slide up to buy more, this % will go to -60%/-70% even if the price is actually increasing. Ps: I did a clean install just to make sure and the nonsense still persist.

Anyone know why some of the trade rumors are highlighted and some are not?

If I buy a workshop. Change it and later give it up. Will it revert to the original shop? Or remain what I change it to? And will it change later if the AI realises all of their shops sell the same product.

like the vid but imo smithing is still way better. U just need to get the right parts and can easily sell 1 sword for 38k. Only downside is u have to travel from town to town

Untill recently i was on patch 1.53 and i update it to 1.62, before i could wait for siege to finish and then sell everything i had in my inventory. Now merchants just get stacked on to the city gates and mili second after siege finishes, they sell everyrhing they had :( :( :( :( me sad

man the prices of horses for me is so bad lol. battanian hobbies sold for like 400-500 hopefully economy fixes itself or maybe it was a siege? i feel like i never get profit off horses unless its a quest from a lord.

If you want to use Everything Has a Price to buy settlements, is it absolutely required for the player character to have the perk, or can you have a companion in your party who has the perk and make the purchase that way?

Just take around 1000 mules 500 sumpter horses ho to a village that buys the mules for a big profit sell them even if they give you just 1000 denars buy the mules back with forged weapons go to the nearest city sell the mules then re enter the trade menu put in the sumpter horses take the mules in to your inventory and then the sumpter horses now you bought the mules for a smaller price now go back to the village and do the same. I did this and in 15 minutes I've gone from lvl 5 trade to 300

Could you make a perk guide for skills.

12:26 when you say "sell red" you mean "red in the buyer's inventory" not red in the player's inventory, right? If you have Trader Level 50, then my understanding is: items which have a price that is above average will be listed as red in the traders inventory. However, if the player purchased those same items at lower prices then the price in the player's inventory for the same commodity will be listed in green in the player's inventory. So my rule of thumb was "buy green from trader inventory / sell green from player inventory" and using that I seemed to be doing pretty well in terms of my total assets growing, so either I was getting lucky somehow or else I'm misunderstanding what you are saying in your video (or else they changed how the relative values are displayed). This is one aspect of TW's design I find unnecessarily vague. The first function that is unlocked with trader skill is that profitable items (in one's inventory when in the trade screen) are listed as green. This shade of green gets lighter (less vibrant) as the price approaches the price at which the commodity was purchased (or else the "average" price for the stack if the stack comprises portions which were purchased at different prices). I believe this functionality is unlocked at level 25? I'm almost certain that this is how that level of trading UI works as I've observed it. Then when you get to Level 50, you unlock the "Item prices shown relative to average" (which presumably means: the median or mean price for a commodity for the ENTIRE game world at any given time is compared to the list price for the commodity in the trade screen and then the characters are displayed in different shades depending on how much lesser or greater the price is compared to the average: green meaning price is low; yellow approximately average; red above average.

With a strategy of doing bare minimal fighting, arena practice fights are far more efficient than tournaments for early game money. Far easier and faster wins.

Do you get trade skills from selling items from tournaments and loot? Because I've been doing that and my trade is 0 . Xbox here

Putting a brewery in Charas a few times made the town start to starve which makes grain sell price 21 denars.