In my case, and first playthrough, I wasn't going to rebell, actually. I waited years for the crown of Vlandia (spoiler: Derthert lived happily 10 years of my own kindgom existance). Slowly, all garrisons were filled with best troops from my numerous conquests, generals were leveled up and when over-powered Vlandia got into a war with 3 kingdoms, I defected. And not just defected. I had so much influence, that I countered all good laws and enacted bad ones, so half of the foreign cities rebelled (it was a trauma for me, most of them I concqured myself). I gathered all capable troops(with my party =1) and lost them in a siege on purpose. And finnaly, I attacked the Aserai caravan, so they would wage war aganist vlandia too. Then I took my troops and made a blietzkrieg on all Vlandia. Meeting Derthert was a trauma too, because he treated me as a friend still. I felt amful for him.

Ive been deep diving in to Bannerlord for the last couple weeks (PS5 now, PC prior with 300+ hours) and I have got to say, your videos have been a great help. Not only the content, but the comments some of these fine folks are posting really open your mind to all the ways this great game can be played. I’ve learned a lot from everyone and I’m truly grateful. 🙏🏻 Keep up the amazing work, Flesson!

Bannerlord: Tips from a powergamer. Pick a corner nation as your enemy/target - Vlandia tends to work really well (and is objectively the best choice when using the armory mods), but Sturgia and Aserai also work - Avoid Khuzaits because cavalry-based militaries suck to fight early/mid game. - While Batannia tends to be the absolute easiest nation to fight, their position kind of sucks. Attack caravans/small lords until you have yourself fully geared and a pretty decent army - ONLY TARGET THE ONE NATION - Improve relations with any other faction, but primarily just focus on getting your money up. Learn how to solo or otherwise easily capture castles - there are both pure solo and army strats that work, army strats will be faster but WILL result in high casualties. Which can be an issue depending on your money and how many nearby recruits there are and the power level of the nation you've been harassing. Capture a single castle, preferably whichever one is farthest from the border and the most in the corner that you can find. Max the [redacted] out of that castle's garrison. Literally just walk back and forth between villages and cities grabbing full parties and throwing them into the garrison of your shiny new castle. Once your garrison is full, resume harassing said nation. Use the equipment from the fights to upgrade your castle garrison. Once your garrison and personal army are both mostly max tier, create a kingdom, immediately attack a nearby lord to gain influence, immediately convert all/most of your companions into lords, give them the garrison from your castle, form an army, besiege the nearest town. Use the influence and advantage gained from taking said town (+ advantage from all previously captured prisoners) to gain peace with the nation you've been fighting this entire time. If you've been fighting Sturgia or Vlandia, immediately declare war on Batannia. Otherwise, declare war on the nearest imperial faction. Slaughter their armies with a primarily high-tier cavalry army to fund your castle and city garrisons. Don't even bother trying to take a castle or city from them. Just use their lords and caravans to bankroll yourself. ??? Win. Provided you're constantly fighting as much as humanly possible, money should absolutely never be an issue in Bannerlord. Between the hundreds of thousands you can earn per battle against mid-size armies, the millions you can earn from crafting overpriced polearms, the absolutely insane profits you can make running between 2 towns as a trader and the literally free money you can get from running caravans, workshops and your own fiefs, you should absolutely never have to care about money. I've earned 9 Million Denars within the first 90 days of a campaign before, without even crafting anything. Once your roguery is up a decent amount and your army is good enough to easily win against military forces in the 60-120 range, you can VERY easily earn a minimum of 50k/battle. I've had singular battles where I've earned ~15k from normal prisoners, ~20k from lord prisoners and ~180k from loot, and we're not even talking about a 1200+ man deathstack here.

Genuinely had no idea Clans that like you would not pillage your villages, even after 1k hours played I never noticed that! Thanks for that info, will definitely be focusing a lot more on social my next campaign. I assume it's not the same situation with caravans though? Thanks for the great video!

My issue was when I recruited nobles that kept on wanting to declare war on kingdoms I didn’t want to fight. While I was still at war, I had the policy that let me over rule them. However they kept doing it so god damn frequently that I couldn’t keep overruling them. Then they was able to pass the policy that made decisions cost double for me. So I ended up at war with every single kingdom on the map. That was the point I peaced out and retired my character. Just made it infuriating to plan it. Genuinely felt like they was actively working against me.

Have been playing my first sandbox for the past 4 days, managed to get clan tier-4 on day 312 and have 4 villages now, I LITERALLY NEEDED THIS VIDEO LOL, I made SOOO many bad choices, like for example, exevuting 30 lords from the mercenary clans lol, I’ll start increasing relations as fast as possible now lol

As usual, great video with lots of info. Keep it up and thanks for sharing!

The trick i use for every playthrough , is that instead of becoming a vassal , i start out as a mercenary , make lots of money & renown from battles to reach higher clan tiers. then eventually start my own kingdom . the reason for this is that , when u defect as a vassal , all vassals in that kingdom start to hate you like crazy , to avoid that , i go with this strat.

I am doing a bandit troop only playthrough and after constantly taking over rebel towns/castles, one faction eventually was left to a few fiefs, so I took to war. I got tired of the lords popping up after I beat them, so I just started mass executing the lords. I think everyone hates me now, but I have a castle

this is like what i imagine lords get trained on...how much foodto keep stocked in case of sieges and stuff.. very informational

also a quick tip: if you already own town, and you're currently in a war with any nation/empire you can do this to earn quick money: When you defeat vassal lords during a campaign they often times become your prisoner. And after some time, you get a messenger wanting to ransom off a lord for a meager amount. Automatically decline this since there is a better way at earning more. Now how to maximize what you can earn from your prisoner enemy lords? What you can do is take the enemy lord prisoners to your town (would work best if you have 15 or more enemy lords as your prisoner). Once in your town, go to the tavern and ransom them off that way. (don't worry they won't disappear, but they'll actually end up in your dungeon) Once they're in your dungeon, take them out and again, ransom them off to the guy in the tavern (do this again and again until you receive a satisfactory amount of hush money or building funds) i tried this on version 1.29, i am not sure if this works in older versions happy earnings

omfg thank you so much love ur stuff homie. been struggling on this play through and this helped A LOT.

Great info, thanks!

For me, I enjoy sandbox with banner-kings. I start at 20 and enjoy long games, but I am probably in the top 2-5% that plays that way.

Thank you man, i been having hard time defending my kimdon i literaly lost all my troops and almost all my castle, i will take care of the advise

This is an awesome video I had no idea I could recruit people while they’re my prisoner. Absolute game changer not having to chase people down. Also a good way to keep your original faction off your tail is if you raid a couple villages to start multiple wars before you depart. Kinda hard to focus on just you when they are at war with half the map so it gives you time to set up lol

7:41 The only option talking to clan leader prisoners is "our kingdoms should make peace" at least for me, tried it multiple times, the only way to get the persuasion check is when i find them on the map

Ty for video, sometimes ago I tried to describe people how to manage the War when you are weak. But I didn't think about your theme of this video. I think it genius idea, because all people always ask this questions, and nobody make good video about this question. Its amazing!

I just hit Clan tier 4 and thinking about how to progress. This video couldnt have come at a better time!

In my case, if i play conquest. 1st 10day, need at leat 1 compagnion of 60+steward, so can have at least 35+troops. Declaring war to 1kingdom by attaking their vassal. Reach tier 2 clan before the 1st season end, need no stop fighting, no1 around, attack the village, not raid, forced them to give troops/ressources. After tier 2, join any1 at war as mercenary. I dont become vassal. Should reach tier4 in less than a year. Wait/creat a opportunity, i play empire culture, so my target are any of the 3 empire kingdoms. No stop bully the same kingdom. I join any kingdom that attack my target(each time i change kingdom, before join the new1, buy all the food of my target towns on t way, make their garisson starving). As their troop drop less than 2500, i stop be mercenary, run to the other side of my target, where all their big army isnt around. Take my1st town. Immediatly make my kingdom. Hunt for influence. Ask mercenary to join me. Mercernary+compagnion troop should +-500troops army, enough to kill ennemy 1k army. If ennemy come with 1.5k, just run to the other side of his army, take another town before he take yours. Normaly i get at least 5towns before get my 3rd vassal (i must control at least 5towns to keep my passive income 10k+/day) most of time, when got my 5th town, should be at the end of my 2nd year, if i m slow, middle of 3rd year.

I got so attached to my campaign, but I ended up rushing the dragon banner before I was ready. My clan had three strong cities and some good castles. We managed to wage defensive wars against the whole world for two years. I personally executed half of the vlandian nobility just to try to slow the hordes. We had a 4:1 kdr with every faction, but in the end the endless waves of bodies eventually over ran us. I remember my last city I defended with 500 men against 3,000. After days of ambushes and successful defenses, our onagers failed to destroy their battering ram. My men fought bravely and eventually it was down to 150 vs my 60. Unfortunately, many of my strongest warriors had died and my remaining were very spread out and they were inside the sacred walls. We lost. The end of an Era. The young King disposed. I like to think that my story is remembered in the lore, but I fear how it will be remembered. To some I may have been a brave warrior who brought fame, wealth, and prosperity to his land. A king that stood against Goliath. Perhaps I was even a God. To others though, I was a traitor. I was a murderer. A thief. They may see me as a blood hungry tyrant who murdered countless noblemen and wasted the lives of tens of thousands of men in his wars for glory. Glory for the sake of glory they might say. Hero, liberator, murderer, tyrant. History favors the victor. Long live the Imperium. Rest in peace Garious.

Here’s some food for thought. The only important “soldier” stat is endurance. You don’t even need max stats to hit the good perks. You can still dump into social and intellect, but a little investment early on can let you have the best of both worlds. Granted, you won’t be getting high int perks till mid-late game… but that’s when int becomes the most relevant anyway.

My tactic is to buy towns other factions conquered and then stockpile garrisons. Paid for with smithed weapon sales. Can take many years, but by the time I was Clan Tier 6 I had several towns with 420 garrisoned troops not counting Militia before I declared my Kingdom.

There's a piece of this that I never hear anybody talk about you can own Towns or castles without being part of a king at all either yours or the AIs You can actually start building your kingdom this way and own multiple Towns or castles before ever declaring yourself as a kingdom. I've gotten up to as many as 10' without ever declaring myself a kingdom. Mainly by taking kingdoms that rebel, but you can also attack actual kingdoms, and whenever they come to attack you back, just pay for peace. Normally you can take a couple of peace and the cost of peace is not that high, The AIs will not declare war on you if you are not a declared kingdom.

Quality advice

thanks for the great vid man, just had two quick questions. Does my influence reset when i leave battania to make my own kingdom and if one of my fiefs is already under siege when i leave battania will the siege continue?

I captured a rebel town as my first step. Now I have all the time in the world to prepare since nobody is able to declare war on me.

I’m finding prisoners escaping castles a problem in my playthrough as I’m mid game to haven’t levelled/got all the perks, still very annoying

I find the easiest way is to just play the game as intended and wait until well past clan tier 4 befofe going solo kingdom. Make more friends, collect more fiefs and build them up. Build up more companion parties. Build future clan leader companions to promote. Etc. if the AI swarms you then you didn't midgane long enough yet.

I get my sister to 225 riding & scouting, her party in the army, & she is the mobile prison for those I do not want to escape

Great guide flesson, love the vids. Also what’s the best way to not lose a ton of money daily when you first start your kingdom?

Haha! I have been battnnia vessel for as long as I can remember on my first current play through. 130+ hours in. Took a long break from the game before that I was the golden vessel got back from my break and been playing recently. Have tactical got control over the snowy part of the map over my course of playing the damn conspiracy guys missions where me mad and reckless I started executing prisoners but then realized I will have no friends but pretty sure I single handle assist in the total disbandment of the western and worked on the southern kingdom north is hanging strong. But I was thinking about breaking off from being a vessel and starting a kingdom. But I have so many enemies and about two people in my clan would it be a bad idea? And roughly how much gold would I need if I left batt and keep my four fiefs? If that’s still an option.

nice video

I overextended. 11 Cities and 10 castles as a vassal of Vlandia. I did not even want them; we fought against Aserai and my lord just gave me a city and two castles and from there it escalated. Next war was against Sturgia and suddenly I had fiefs at the other end of the map. I want to forge again, spend some times recruiting an army I really want, manage my fiefs, make children, etc. How can I escape; all I doing is run from siege to siege. If I found my own kingdom I will be missing a lot of clans I can ask for support if someone declares war on me.

In dont know why there isnt a single video about this on youtube, but i always stall creating my own kingdom as much as i can. In sandbox you can basically conquer the whole map without ever creating a kingdom. Just declare war by sacking a village or attacking some noble party near the fief you want to conquer, quickly siege it and go to whatever enemy noble (most of the time you will capture one that sits inside the fief). Talk to him and make peace for denar (its cheaper the better your relation is). Maybe gamble and try to take one or two additional fiefs but make peace as soon as any of your fiefs get sieged by the enemy. Its pretty cheesy, but it works quite nice, since there is the aditional benefit that you will own every single one of the fiefs you conquered before you create your kingdom. Which means loads of money (and later influence). The AI will still never declare war on you as long as you are just a clan and not a kingdom.

Ive been snatching up rebellios fiefs and nurturing them into prosperity, keeping my garrisons small and trying to maximize my tax income. One party at a time, i build up a force of Khans Guard/Fian Champions and then swap them to my clan parties. Hopefully, once i declare my kingdom, ill have my own party plus 4 with 75/75 khans guard/fian champions filled in with some heavy calvary and i wont have to worry so much about my clan parties being defeated and then captured

What version of bannerlord 2 does diplomacy mod work on cause I can’t seem to find it?

Great

@flesson19 thank you for another great video. I have a question, and allow me to apologise in advance if its kinda silly. Why do we need to create Kingdoms in Bannerlord ? I remember in the old warband we could not hold fiefs (neither Towns, Castles or Villages) if we were not part of a kingdom, either as a vessel or our own Kingdom. I had assumed it was the same in Bannerlord but discovered a few months back I could take fiefs without being part of a kingdom and so am wondering why we need to start Kingdoms. As a background, I was on the verge of joining a Kingdom when a city right in front of me revolted. I decided to besiege it to level up a clan member's engineering and voila....I could hold a city without being in a Kingdom

I had conquered all of Sturgia as a Vlandian vassal. I left the kingdom with one milion denars and clan rank 3 (almost 4). I spent some time building up my tiefs and then when I reached clan rank 4 I made my kingdom. I ran out of money fast but somehow I kept it above bankruptcy. Everyting seems to be fine. For now...

for me the price tag was important. Over 2 million before I start my own kingdom? Holy

How do you talk to prisoner Lords? Everytime I do, I never get the option to invite them to join my faction

I don't even play Bannerlord, I just watch your videos to fall asleep💯💯

Can you do a companion/companion clan guide? Love the videos ❤

So I started my first sandbox playthrough. Joined a kingdom, got fiefs, made money, then left the kingdom and my fiefs. I have not started my own kingdom, and have been taking over rebellious settlements by buying all their food then besieging them immediately to starve their garrison to death so i only have to deal with militia and present parties, but I usually wait until those parties are evacuated unless I see the original owners army fastly approaching. So far only minor clans have been waging war against me. I only have one castle, but I have amassed 15 towns this way. It helps that the Khuzait, Aserai, and Vlandia (with my aid) completely decimated the Empires, Battania, and Sturgia so there are plenty of rebellions I can take advantage of

When playing for the empire, where is it better to start conquering the map ?

I have made my own kingdom, and I have a castle and a town. Because of previous issues such as paying for peace, my money has run out, and I am bankrupt. How can I build my money back up so I can run my kingdom?

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God did I rush my kingdom started with 20k and just stole 1 castle... been a uphill battle ever since

How do you get a dialog with prisoners in your party? I figured it should be possible, but I can’t find it.

please post the link to the other place to ask you questions. Thanks :)

I tried to make a party today a 2nd one. My costs went from $200 to $5000 a day 😂. Lucky i saved first lmao

Dang Flesson awesome video, but you broke my immersion from using A.I. alot. I been immersing myself as if there just smart kingdoms using good tactics and you slap me into reality oh its just A I. 😂😂

I remember the governor perks not working for keeping prisoners. Was that patched?

What we mean is we need a guild on how to help your companion clan you created grow and how to get your clans to get bigger party’s and be able to fight against other kingdoms and also when all war against you and you have no money it’s a lot of in depth things we need a guid on

I would love anything tips i have 4 castles and one settlement and only have 785 strength. And i getting overwhelmed is it All ready to late?

Interesting suggestion but sadly the information needs more detail for those of us who are absolute beginners and somewhat clueless 🤪! For example I have a city with a governor but no idea how to donate troops , which I have no issue doing with my one castle !

I am a vassel in the wastern empire and i really want to make my own kingdom so i suggest to make war on vlandia and take the strongest army(i was have 930 influence)and move untill i become between enemy land then i disband the army and go away then i leave the kingdom and go to the empreror(he was weak because i take the strongest army)i was 234 and he 143 i suggest for him peace and he accept because he was at war with vilandia and me and i was stronger than him in that situation

watched, liked, commented. hope it will do well

Im at war with all the kingdoms. I have 23k strength. The Aseri are the next strongest with 5k lol

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Does friendly ai still declare war on other factions with no reason at all ? Its one of the main reasons why i quit the game

I peaced out with all the kingdoms, now I’m in debt 3.3 mil! 😂🤣slowly conquering the the entire map!

1 milion or 2 when I'm fucking watching this, I already have kingdom and I'm bankrupt and fucked, that's why I'm here

now do a video everyone wants when you have 2-3 fiefs and castles and how to defend against that when you make kingdom the cost of peace is 12k a day for a single clan

Started mine with 400k🤣 also executed most of the southern empire so everyone hates me doubt this kingdom will survive 😭

How to get khuzait khans guard? ,nice vid btw..

And how to weaken strong kingdoms

Had a city for a while now and the AI leave me be took it off rebels, idk if its because i havent put the banner together yet but the AI arent going armegeddon like traditional mount n blade, hell i got bored looking for all these lords and just went to war with one of the purple dudes raid half of their villages run from the big boys and gooble up the little ones and then they caught me pants down 400 to 100 cornered. Offered peace and they accepted 🤨 Just took a second city off some rebels on the neatherealms of the map strategically retarded but hay them dudes arent attacking 😂 I suppose they never were great at explaining whats happening mount and blade i mean took me an age to find out why the workshop isnt taking my input just to create another army just to bleed 8k a day 😅 and the dudes "disbanding" love it and im playing on easy youd think Maybe only once you declare yourself as a kingdom do they treat you like a kingdom

I got into 100k dept what to do

Hello this isnt a bot.

Don’t know your face but you sound like Dana White

Nah, dont start with charm, leve it zero when creating char, then release the first 100 lords you capture this will give you charm and leadership and good relations with the lords to help you later down the track

You think Empire is best culture?

Are you Dana White?

why do you sound exactly like dana white

So I was just doing my own thing, I only started a couple weeks ago in real world 🤦‍♂and had been wondering why I wasn't getting nominated for fiefs or castles anymore...had 1 castle, maxed it out. I was about to propose my own damn self for something! (thought I pissed em all off again) When suddenly out of the blue 😳🤯 WTH they up and they make me flippn King of Battania...I didn't even want it nor tried for King...even abstained from the damn vote. NOOOOOOO..crud... knew I shouldn't a been bangn' his daughter😆here for the vid before this thing kicks off 🤣😂😅😆 *no new update cheats used

Is or me or dude sound exactly like nigan

I need help brother!!

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this video is just putting me off bannerlord. It makes it seem like the lategame is just one big ball ache where you have to massively strategise to just survive

Man I like your content until I listened to you complained on stream that things didn’t work. And BTW when you jump into a fight, No you should not have advanced set up at all, think about it man

Bft

I have 5 million coin and 4000 troops. I think im finally ready to assemble the banner tomorrow😂