Best starting build/skilling for beginners?

[NotIfo]

Hi Guys,

I started out campaign as Sturgian, with good archery, riding and one handed. Tutorial is pretty shallow. Showing you just follow me and charge commands. I started of good until I talked with all 10 lords for quest, collected 3 pieces of Banner and randomly joined Empire side if I am not wrong (Istvania or what is her name for quest). But as the lack of tutorial, I just did things that spent me so much money and now a have barley 20 fighters on my side and cannot progress normally anymore (quest with Arzagos's Conspiracy.) They just destroy me every time.

If any good soul here just to write or share some ultimate guide (I can't find what I am looking for) that will help me with fresh start that is really needed in my case.

For example:

Character creation for full beginners in detail (which factions to choose, which skills, which weapon)

How to do things in order (main quests, what to actually do before choosing sides etc.)

Don't know thing about breweries and some other place that you can probably buy?

Just beginner guide/tutorial that will show me how to do it for the first playthrough.



Thank you all in advance!



TL,DR: Just looking for someone with experience to tell me for example: "Take Vladians because of perks, use this and this weapon cause it's easy for beginners, focus on this skills because it's beginner friendly, concentrate on recruiting this and this troops, do side quests until...:" etc.

[Thor]

Try to balance your stats in creation, get each primary stat to 3. At the start, give your weapons stats a few extra points, maybe 2 points into whatever weapons you're going to use. Try to add 1 point to most secondary stats as quickly as possible because that will help you level up more quickly. For example, I would start with 1+ one handed, 2+ polearm, 2+ bow, 2+ blacksmith, 2+ riding, 1+ charm, 1+leadership, 1+medicine, 2+steward, 1+roguery...etc etc. Specialize later on as you improve your skills. Leaderships, steward, charm become important later on.

In the early game, start by trading between some close cities before the resources get spread out by villagers. Danustica and Onira work well. Just run back and forth a couple times buying low and seling high, recruit 4 or 5 villagers and buy a couple Sumpter Horses so you can carry more stock. Once you have about 5000 gold, find a wife to marry. Google 'best bannerlord wife' for some good options. Open the encyclopedia by right-clicking on the character icon in the bottom left corner, then search for your wife in the encyclopedia to find where she's staying. Meet her, seduce her, pay her father 5000 gold or so to marry her.

Once you're married it's easy street because top tier wives have gear that's worth like 400,000 gold. So sell some of her gear, use the encyclopedia to search for ideal companions that you can hire, then make them caravans. Get 3 or 4 caravans going as soon as possible, and now you're making about 1000 gold a day and you can start getting creative. You can buy some workshops if you want some more income, I usually don't bother though. You should be able to get to this point after about half an hour, it's a really quick way to get going in sandbox.

For units, I usually hire special cavalry units from khuzait villages that become top tier horse archers. I don't use any foot soldiers. If you can get 50 horse archers then you can join a kingdom as a mercenary and start fighting enemies to make more money.

In fights I try to take out as many enemy cavalry as quickly as possible, then I use the horse archers to run in, batter the enemy with clouds of arrows, fall back and repeat if necessary, once they start to scatter a bit you can charge in and mop them up. I play with no health bonuses and I almost never lose a single guy using this strategy. Once you have more then 50 or so horse archers, add some horse cavalry(khuzait lancers or imperial equites are good) to protect your archers.

The good fight commands are selecting your different unit groups(1-9 keys), placing your different units around the map(f1), turning them (f3 or f7), stop and starting arrow fire(f4) and charge(f3). You can organize your units into different groups in the party screen. I like to have only two units on a battlefield, horse archers and horse infantry.

Only some villages will offer you noble units. Those are the villages you want to focus on for quests. The better reputation you have with the people in the village, the more and better units you can recruit from that town. Only do quests that are quick and easy though, like destroying bandit camps(use only archers and never charge), inn & out, restocking grain and livestock are all easy quests. Don't do family feuds, training troops, escort caravans or moving livestock. It's very helpful long term to have villages that like you, if a village likes you enough you can even recruit from them when you at war against their lord.

[NotIfo]

Publicado originalmente por Thor:

Try to balance your stats in creation, get each primary stat to 3. At the start, give your weapons stats a few extra points, maybe 2 points into whatever weapons you're going to use. Try to add 1 point to most secondary stats as quickly as possible because that will help you level up more quickly. For example, I would start with 1+ one handed, 2+ polearm, 2+ bow, 2+ blacksmith, 2+ riding, 1+ charm, 1+leadership, 1+medicine, 2+steward, 1+roguery...etc etc. Specialize later on as you improve your skills. Leaderships, steward, charm become important later on.

In the early game, start by trading between some close cities before the resources get spread out by villagers. Danustica and Onira work well. Just run back and forth a couple times buying low and seling high, recruit 4 or 5 villagers and buy a couple Sumpter Horses so you can carry more stock. Once you have about 5000 gold, find a wife to marry. Google 'best bannerlord wife' for some good options. Open the encyclopedia by right-clicking on the character icon in the bottom left corner, then search for your wife in the encyclopedia to find where she's staying. Meet her, seduce her, pay her father 5000 gold or so to marry her.

Once you're married it's easy street because top tier wives have gear that's worth like 400,000 gold. So sell some of her gear, use the encyclopedia to search for ideal companions that you can hire, then make them caravans. Get 3 or 4 caravans going as soon as possible, and now you're making about 1000 gold a day and you can start getting creative. You can buy some workshops if you want some more income, I usually don't bother though. You should be able to get to this point after about half an hour, it's a really quick way to get going in sandbox.

For units, I usually hire special cavalry units from khuzait villages that become top tier horse archers. I don't use any foot soldiers. If you can get 50 horse archers then you can join a kingdom as a mercenary and start fighting enemies to make more money.

In fights I try to take out as many enemy cavalry as quickly as possible, then I use the horse archers to run in, batter the enemy with clouds of arrows, fall back and repeat if necessary, once they start to scatter a bit you can charge in and mop them up. I play with no health bonuses and I almost never lose a single guy using this strategy. Once you have more then 50 or so horse archers, add some horse cavalry(khuzait lancers or imperial equites are good) to protect your archers.

The good fight commands are selecting your different unit groups(1-9 keys), placing your different units around the map(f1), turning them (f3 or f7), stop and starting arrow fire(f4) and charge(f3). You can organize your units into different groups in the party screen. I like to have only two units on a battlefield, horse archers and horse infantry.

Only some villages will offer you noble units. Those are the villages you want to focus on for quests. The better reputation you have with the people in the village, the more and better units you can recruit from that town. Only do quests that are quick and easy though, like destroying bandit camps(use only archers and never charge), inn & out, restocking grain and livestock are all easy quests. Don't do family feuds, training troops, escort caravans or moving livestock. It's very helpful long term to have villages that like you, if a village likes you enough you can even recruit from them when you at war against their lord.

This is what I was looking for, thank you good sir. Take reward.

[Hasbulat]

Publicado originalmente por NotIfo:

This is what I was looking for, thank you good sir. Take reward.

The strategy is ...
Lot of gamer prefer mini-max strategy - you maxcimze skills you dedicate as important and just let other lines totaly unskilled.
There are not enogh points for all skill lines. so you have to deside what you focus on.

Besides of that - some abilities are very easy to improve and others - its just pain to grow them.

[El Goonty ☯]

Publicado originalmente por NotIfo:

Thank you everyone for this answers. Really helpful. I will start new campaign cause I really f***** up my first campaign in 20 hours with wrong skills, wrong recruitment etc..

Thanks once more everyone :)

You still can use this mod to respec your main hero and companions (character_manager.reset HeroName)
https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/2382
Enjoy ;)

[Thor]

Publicado originalmente por Hasbulat:

Publicado originalmente por NotIfo:

This is what I was looking for, thank you good sir. Take reward.

The strategy is ...
Lot of gamer prefer mini-max strategy - you maxcimze skills you dedicate as important and just let other lines totaly unskilled.
There are not enogh points for all skill lines. so you have to deside what you focus on.

Besides of that - some abilities are very easy to improve and others - its just pain to grow them.

The problem with that is your character levels up as your individual skills level up and the skills level up slower and slower as you grow. Balancing the skills out early and only adding more points as you max them out will prevent your character from getting level locked when your skill growth gets agonizingly slow. So you can actually get your character to a higher max level, thus allowing you to add more skill points, by balancing them out early. It's win win.

Besides, I run my parties without any companion roles, so my character is the medic, scout, steward etc. My skills are all being utilized so my character will continue to level up.

To each their own though, that's what's great about this game.

[Jacks]

Publicado originalmente por dennis.danilov:

Publicado originalmente por Jacks:

Strangely enough, I find reaching high level of crossbow compulsory on the MC. The ability to half wages on all tier 4+ troops allows you to field over 200+ tier 6s later in the game without bankrupting yourself.

Most interesting. Really highlights the need for a separate siege loadout unless you're willing to mostly kill nothing in open-field battles.

Being able to equip boundcrossbow on horseback late in-game is pretty good. I find myself going after cavalry and horse archers while my army deal with the enemy's main foot troop.

At 300 crossbow and 250+ riding, I find myself one shoting low armored troop with body shots, and one shot anything with a headshot (~300) damage on realistic.

[SievertChaser]

Publicado originalmente por Jacks:

Publicado originalmente por dennis.danilov:

Most interesting. Really highlights the need for a separate siege loadout unless you're willing to mostly kill nothing in open-field battles.

Being able to equip boundcrossbow on horseback late in-game is pretty good. I find myself going after cavalry and horse archers while my army deal with the enemy's main foot troop.

At 300 crossbow and 250+ riding, I find myself one shoting low armored troop with body shots, and one shot anything with a headshot (~300) damage on realistic.

Yeah, but this means spending quite a while either playing as a dragoon, or using the most basic crossbow.