How to make money as tribal

[Vladimiś]

Any tips on making money as tribal? Since its pretty much my first serious game I gave myself a small loan of 1500 gold at start and used it to wage wars till I created Lithuania (started as Prussia) and now Im sitting at +~1gold/month and with people that want their indepence for some reason or another

[neverdie]

as tribal, go raiding.
upgrade your personal holdings, think about if you want to go feudal or republic

[Adolf Rozenberg]

make merchant respublics

[khan_raider_alex]

as lithuania tribal there are none to raid, neighbours are the same poor b*tards. Try to loot churches that give you some gold, develope your own holding with prestige points, if you are lucky you can capture in battle lord\chief who has enough gold to ransom himself. And slowly develope to feudal\republic.
OR conquer\vassalize\tribute(ize) everything you can, reform pagan and conquer half of map))
Free tip - form empire first, then you won't lose your territory on succesion.
If you have WayofLife DLC focus on bussines, that gives you some gold.

[Ea0]

Raid. Even if you're only surrounded by other poor tribes, it's ransoming the prisoners that will provide some gold. Usually, you'll get a lot of prisoners. Tribes are fast to besiege, so you don't lose too much money keeping your armies up.

[chetocheto]

If you order your Marshall to prepare a raid, in short time troops will appear by event, and they have no monthly upkeep

Originally posted by Ea0:

Tribes are fast to besiege, so you don't lose too much money keeping your armies up.

[Ea0]

Originally posted by chetocheater:

If you order your Marshall to prepare a raid, in short time troops will appear by event, and they have no monthly upkeep

Haha yeah. That short time might be several years despite a good marshal but those troops are a nice little (!) support to your own raiding troops when you get them.

[Garg Oystein Yikernes]

try to revoke and hold all counties that have some kind of temple. temples get you more money than 2 - 3 tribes alone :D

[Thundercracker]

providing you have a coastline (and if not, take land till you do) make sure you own the coastal county, then make sure you can build ships. then travel from the north down around spain, raiding everywhere you can. just take the free gold, dont bother seiging things down. keep a close eye to make sure your raiders dont get wiped out. hit capitol counties when you can, as that generally prevents levies from being raised against you.

[Empiro]

Raiding is the main way. Once you're big enough, target counts or dukes with small levies (especially ones with multiple bishoprics and towns) and try to siege down the holdings. If you stand on their capital, they're not likely to be able to raise most of their levies.

Look for commanders with "Siege Leader" or "Architect" and have them lead. You get quite a bit of money for sieging down a county (generally 75-200 gold), but even better is the chance of capturing courtiers. You can ransom those who can pay, and Great Blot the rest if you're Germanic.