My god i am so grateful there is people like Flesson and Strat who love analyzing/optimizing/min-maxing this game as much as i do! Thank you so much!

Clearing out hideouts can also help progress the "So and So needs help with brigands" quest as well. There are usually 2-3 parties of bandits at a base, which would either complete or at least count towards the quest goal. I usually just focus on finding the Bounty Hunter and Bandit Base quests, but it's a nice bonus when you can get it.

Great tips in the video. Another benefit of Roguery, a lot of the extra loot seems to be low value items which can be discarded and given to your troops for XP (with the correct perks taken). Makes training up replacements much more efficient. Sell anything over 100d and give the rags to your boys and they'll be Legionaries and Fians in no time.

I've seen all your old guides and have been waiting for the updated versions. Keep up the good work!!

Little late to the party on this thread so for those watching this video now, I have a HUGE suggestion for smithing to make big bucks: Javelins. With the perk to for selling back weapons fee reduction I am getting 23k PER javelin. The mats to make that are not much and it doesn't take long to get all the unlocks.

I hope they keep the tournament system in place. It makes sense in the game world that more nobles = more prestige = better loot

Profesor Flesson lessons are always welcomed. Great video and perfect timing with stamps. Thk you

once i get 150 in Roguery i grab 49 pissants and take 'Escort Cravan' missions. im usually ClanTierII by then with a few companions and in an kingdom. run ahead ov the caravan. 'can we join yuou?' and thats 18-45 Mounted Pillagers. take em into your group. make another party. give all to the other party, repeat till both/all parties are full, create an army, pull your companions for free into your army. with the worse followers you can get thats 300 mounted archers you got paid to find. they are weak. cant upgrade BUT are cheep fast and archers. stratgy after that. follow your ally armies. never join. engage the smaller armies close enough to pull the big army in... let th emain army charge. you follow their archers and shadow them with your mounted pillager. we do not engage. we enrage. if you get the timing right you can do a wide sweep infont ov the front line in the initial set up, and your mounted pillagers (set to follow and Skein) will all get a volly off... you ride back tothe archers and pull the enemy calvery through the front line you are supporting and pick off any that make it pass. in seiges pull all archers to you and stand behind the people with shields as they run to the walls. you stay on the ground and provide archer support. often the enemy will die out trying to opush the ladders off the wall and you will never have to climb a ladder yourself. if the battering ram makes it to the door. i retreat and try again. and when the mounted pillagers all die you take the money you earned raising the bad boys and get a real army. change the stratagy or... get actually trained mounted archers and repeat with professionals. i on average lose about a dozen a war... not a dozen a fight. a dozen a war. we do not engage. we enrage.

Tips for smithing ! There is a "bug" rn with the short pine staff T3 for polearm, giving "throw weapon" characteristic to your crafted polearm. Its extremely cost efficient, and easily grindable instead of 2H Sword !

Let's goo algoooo!! Great video. Keep it up!

Great video, don't mind the length at all mate. Would really appreciate a mid game version! I played the game hard back in early access release but haven't touched it since, mind getting blown at additions despite all the great content out there. Why is my brother such a chad and how am I meant to spec him?!!

This has some really useful tips, even for a fairly experienced player like myself, great video

Haven't played in over a year, helpful video to get my finances in place early game with how much things have changed, thanks! Tournaments are finally worth it now! I am not sure I would agree on pumping those precious focus points in roguery though. I haven't played in a while and skills have been way reworked but I don't see anything there worth prioritizing over other skills. Skills like steward, medicine, leadership, charm, scouting, riding, athletics and whatever weapons you want all would take priority for me and smithing still looks like a better money maker. There just aren't enough skill/focus points to go around to be fiddling with roguery. A shame really because I thought we were getting a bandit king role or similar options years ago.

Awesome tips, gonna apply for sure

Hey just want to let you know, while watching this particular video, I got ads, so at least this one is generating. Hopefully things get fixed quick, appreciate your attention to detail, I've really learned aa lot about this game because of you. Thank you

Decent guide, i do similar things at start :D, also getting companions for future settlements :p. And workshops ofc :D

Fantastic video dude. Amazing info like always!!

Dude, thank you!

comment for the algorithm

One problem I discovered with turning bandit prisoners into the village labor quest is that Rogue skill gains do not occur, unlike when selling prisoners at Tavern where rogue skill gain occurs for selling prisoner.

Great video as always Fless!

I've found laborers quests at villages with food productions, specifically the fish and grain ones thus far.

Good stuff bro!

I appreciate you! Thanks for the awesome and very helpful vids!

I tend to avoid going mercenary as wars will disable your workshops and possibly kill your caravans. In my first steps I build a big economy. I trade, and build caravans and workshops. I also get in some fights to raise troops morale and farm sea raiders, they have great gear.

Great video

Best guide for beginners thanks men help a lot

This is super late but just gotten into the game for you're next guide maby also include on the bandit base quest you can also include the quest killing brigand groups as that also works with hideouts

Good tips! Thank you

Love Roguery being kind of relevant now. If I could make one change for it, I would make gang leader quests raise roguery

good stuff!👍👍

I used to always take food reduction perks cause I always spent the early good buying and selling food but it reduces Steward XP and character XP.

I do my chain quests similarly, but I get bored of walking (in the bandit hideouts) so I do the escort caravan or caravan ambush and then search for the manual labourers quest while escorting the caravans and sell those mounted prisoners

**Mistake correction*** To gain Roguery with the useful companions mod. If you are the scout and have bandits as prisoners then you gain roguery. That doesn't work in vanilla, but they don't need to be troops just having as prisoners works.

Hey Flesson, I really like the longer videos.

tourney horses makes you a ridiculous profit early game. It'll really help you get started early

Something kinda dumb and obvious in retrospect but I realized a short while ago is if you are doing the campaign you need to hold off on being a Merc until you have completed the main quest line of talking to the 10 lords. The reason is you are drug into wars that will halt your free roam of the map. I found this out trying to get to makeb with 22 men after signing up to the western empire being caught and having to reload. I really am anxious to get into Merc and being a vassal but one thing at a time

Thank you :)

I fish for tournaments that reward the horses. They're a great way to make cash. I have an army of about 100 troops so slaughtering hogs and sheep isn't incredible profit but its still not bad. That and the east side of the map had steppe bandit faction who aren't with any other kingdom so I raid their parties. All this with having four workshops ( honestly best one is making is 200 and some gold) is getting me by.

I had no idea you could slaughter the animals yourself! Thanks for passing that on.

Flesson is like Strat, but has more tips than mechanics which is amazing

Thanks for the guide - having recently purchased the game, it's hard to find relevant content, with most 18 months to 2 years old. Loving the game - now just need to find a kingdom to vassal to.

I actually like giving the head a piece of the pie if the village of the culture troops I am using for the option gain.

If you do smithing you will never have to worry about money or gear, you can just buy that 100k hauberk for all the two-handed swords you made. Tier 3 and 4 swords are all you need, you don´t even have to level smithing very high, about 120 and you can be the richest guy in Calradia. I feel it´s kind of cheesy anyway and tedious to smith, once you are merc the money will just start rolling in with all the loot you get ... smithing is the lazy shortcut which I did in earlier runs.

the easiest quest probably going to be "Deliver weapons", it range from 3-5 axes, the reward is going to be at least 2000 denars, cheap pickaxe and hatcher (100-150 denars) also count toward the "Axes" weapon.

More like this please.

Great Vid! Thanks Edit1: any news on the updates? Yesterday and today when I log into steam, Bannerlord has updated.

I won several horses that sold for 20k each..went from zero to hero in one irl days worth of tournaments

Another killer guide. Any updates for 1.2? ;)

Fuckin' love this game.

2am.. Time for Bannerlord!

If you have the setting for hero deaths in battle turned off, how do you completely eliminate a faction (even when they don’t have any fiefs remaining)? Any advice would be appreciated. Love these help videos so far!

nice

Does rogue skill from your companion count or do you have to have the rogue skill yourself?

new console player here. what traits should i look for in a companion that i want to send out to head up a caravan ? ty for another great vid

What town(s) are best to go to for hogs and sheep?

Nice just got off work 😂

Hunting horses in tournaments is an insane way to make money, I did that early on getting like 17k per horse

Thanks ...(from a ps4)

Im commenting for the algorithm

What’s the difference between e1.70 vs v1.110 I try and get mods but it doesn’t tell me which one is capable with

Laborers quest - even if you visit insted of talking, you can be interrupted by villager

I find it odd that blunt weapons let you take more prisoners. It has to be the hardest to incapacitate without killing using a blunt weapon they do damage to massive areas. Piercing would be the most likely to incapacitate someone with the lowest chance to kill them. You can stitch up a small hole if it didn't hit anything vital. But crushed bones ruptured organs ect we have a hard time fixing those with modern medicine.

Hey, i disagree and agree with alot but the main thing i would add is that with smithing, much like the slaughter of animals. You can buy wood, make charcoal, sell it untill you get charcoal maker skill. Then make so much money by being a mobile charcoal maker plus the trading a the same time. After you flood a market with charcoal, the price of hard wood drops so buy it out and move to the next town, never lose money cos hardwood is up in price at alot of towns

Deserved comment for AG. Please get better sound equipment though. Audio is strange sometimes.

Roguery loot boost, but no mention of metallurgy reducing the appearance of bent, cracked, chipped, etc gear.

is there a way to reset the skills ur companions start with?

Didn't know Kevin from the office played mount and blade

Got some horses worth 18k+ in tournaments, they are always worth doing imho.

So I did the sheep and pig thing and selling off my gear and I only ended up with 1738 denars? Did I do something wrong? Like for a sheep run I did 344 and then sold for 384... profit but not the margins you're getting

Neat

I only got 1k for the hogs after paying 800 for them do you need to start out with a decent trade stat?

Aaarrgh I cant watch it now, I have an appointment. Why you do this 😂 I am gonna get in trouble 😅

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So I think I edited my engineering post a bit to much and YT seems to have put it in the spam folder. Sorry Metallurgy at skill 225 in Engineering gives 80% chance for less likely to get dull swords (1.7.0 patch) according to Bannerlordperks. I did a few battles after I got the 225 and counted the Swords only so far. 43 Dull/Slightly/Rusty Swords 65 Normal/Balanced/Masterwork - 5 masterwork, 10 Balanced, 50 Normal.

Darksyde phil here

i got a horse from the tournament which i sold for 18k !!! lol

how do i lvl roguery on the console as we do not have mods

Bruh you can cut up animals?? I always just made my soldiers eat them when everything else was gone

How do you cut up animals

did you see "ESO" channel, Danny is doing a playthrough :). good for the game, get more people seeing Bannerlord. but it will be boring for you lol :D

I'm pretty sure you can't reach a 200 skill, roguery, by having 3 cunning and 2 focus points into it....

Thanks for the video. Algorithm comment.

for some reason, my blunt weapon actually kill

i love being a merc, i bankrupt all the nations before i take Calradia

sad to see the game is still broken even on 'full release'

What's the most expensive weapon to craft?

slaughtering livestock loses me money, even on day 1

I once got a helmet worth like 50k ish… Tho that was on 1.9 Highest value i have gotten from release was… I don’t remember… Atleast over 9k tho Edit: Nvm… Highest value from tournament on release for me… Above 20k Got a tier6 mount

The real money is also in cows.

its 1.9.0 in my game, there is no 1.0 release

slhotith

Still at work

Actually ive found that you want to sell when its green on your side as well.

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