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.

[Goffik]

引用自 NotIfo：

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.

There are plenty of guides on various things out there, including beginners tips. If you don't tell us what you're looking for, then how can we find something which you can't?

引用自 NotIfo：

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

Choose whatever sounds interesting to you. There is no right or wrong. If you want to be viking-like, choose Sturgia. If you want to be a Roman-like, choose one of the Empire factions. If you want to be Eastern-like, choose Aserai. Etc. Same for fighting style. Choose what looks fun to you. All can be effective, so it depends solely on how you want to play and what you find fun.

引用自 NotIfo：

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

Bannerlord is a sandbox. You do what you like, when you like. There is no specific structure or order, which is the whole point. I mean really... can you not decide what you would like to do on your own?

引用自 NotIfo：

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

Then you really haven't looked far for guides. There are plenty of them, including the game's own wiki. You buy a workshop, determine what you make in it, and it will provide an income based on how many goods it can produce and sell. Simple.

引用自 NotIfo：

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

Again, all of this kind of information is available via the tutorial, the in-game encyclopedia, the game guides on Steam, the wiki, or a simple Google search for the specific information you are looking for...

[Hanok]

For beginners?

Bow and arrow for early game looter farming.

Sword and board for hideouts

Riding for maneuverability

Take advantage pf tournaments (Helmet icon at town)

Grab a medic and scout companion.

Set your player toon to quartermaster and add points to steward to keep it leveling for late game.

Set medic companion to surgeon and Scout to scout.

Stay away from ground melee troops early game(constant replacing)

Keep a few of all 9 food items at all times. (level boost to steward)

Join faction as merc. Attack small enemy armies, raid enemy villages if desired.

Steward and Leadership are the mid to late game skills. Add point's as you progress.

[Nine_Tigers]

Become a Mercenary, it can pay very well. You can just kill looters anywhere and still get paid if that's all you can do. Solve quests, find a wife. Raise relations with nobles of at least the first Culture you intend to conquer so that you can get them to be allies faster.

[Clovis Sangrail]

My Number 1 advice for beginners -- Do the Campaign mode and not the Sandbox Mode. But do not do the Neretze's Folly main quest as it is fubar.

If you do the Campaign but ignore the main quest, you still have a playable sandbox, but you also get the added benefit of being able to rescue your siblings and use them like companions.

[Zarquon]

do take a look at the guides tab here on steam, there are hundreds of guides currently posted, most of them will do exactly what you are asking for.

[Hasbulat]

引用自 Clovis Sangrail：

My Number 1 advice for beginners -- Do the Campaign mode and not the Sandbox Mode. But do not do the Neretze's Folly main quest as it is fubar.

If you do the Campaign but ignore the main quest, you still have a playable sandbox, but you also get the added benefit of being able to rescue your siblings and use them like companions.

The best advice!

And join a Kingdom you wish as soon you can be a mercenary.
And find a wife for the brother and for main hero. Its enogh to pay 2-3 K denari) for marriage to a clan leader of a choosen women, not nessecary to show her your love at all.

If you choose a culture by the character creation, would be better to imegine, what kingdom you will destroy or conquer firstly, The culture of your first city or 2(or 3) is just wonderfull as a culture of your hero.
Culture bonus is interesting just in case of battanians and aserai. Just forget them.

Wondefull choice of the heros culture is an empire - there are 3 empire-kingdoms, so you will have a better choice what kingdom which is in a war with any empire to join and to serve. And you could conquer your fiefs whith the help of your kingdom and you get no disadvantage minus 3 loyality for different culture as you are of empire culture.

Dont try to establish your own kingdom - its boring, not balanced and bad implemented.
Be a good vassal of an existing kingdom, bekome some towns for your service, improve them, make your dynasty stronger, your cities better, your willages more peosperios, build up relationships with a ruler clan and all lords of your kingdom. There is a chance to be elected for a King of your Kingdom if your lord is killed.

Its the best way to enjoy this game in a current situation.

[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 :)

[Hasbulat]

I focus my main hero on


Charisma and Leadership

1H weapon (I prefere to use shild infantery only, so I boost them with my heros skill)
Another good choice for melee is the swinging polearm, with 2 H axe you hit also unskilled good enough!
Battanian Waldrunners are wonderfull infanterists... or sturgian shild infantery

Archery (I use fians as archers and/or empirian bucelaries or khuzait Khan Guards)

Riding, Athletics

Restover goes in Steward - its adds soldiers to your army!

Dont have much points for other skills.

[SievertChaser]

In my experience the "basic ♥♥♥♥♥" build is a lancer with a shield and a 1H sword. Maybe drop some javelins into the remaining slot, or "graduate" to a two-hander once you feel confident enough without a shield at all times.

I currently have one such pure melee lancer (after having some fun with throwing axes from horseback) and a Sturgian shocktrooper with a 2H axe, a shield and two javelin packs - right now I'm leading a small party from horseback, but I plan to dismount more and drop one of the javelin cases in favor of a sword for the board.

An archer with a short 2H polearm is on the backburner.

[mk0]

My experience is that you get stuck with the XP income in mid/late game, so I started a new character fully setup for athletics and smithing in the first place. For weaponry, I recommend 2h weapon using the 2h axe later, which is insane (multikill) and it will save you focus points, which you will need on other skills to not get stuck.

Init

So all initial setup is spent on athletics and smithing first. Choose age 30 to get more points but not to be too old too soon. Choose Battanian as most of the map is covered in woods.

First job

So the first thing you do is buy some iron and wood being overloaded is okay. I had to deal with 15 bandits alone but you only need to kill like 5 to make them run away. Craft some 2h weapons and sell them. Repeat. Go all smithing up and choose Endurance+1 and Vigor+1 as perks on that path. Enable yourself to do all refining.

1. Charcoal maker
   
2. Steel maker
   
3. Steel maker 2
   
4. Steel maker 3
   
5. Practical Smelter
   
6. Vigorous Smith (Vigor+1)
   
7. Practical Smith
   
8. Master Smith
   
9. Enduring Smith (Endurance+1)
   
10. Sharpened Edge

Spending all the points

While you go down that path, you will get a lot of levels. Spent all focus points on the following:

• 2h weapon (focus 5)
  
• Bow (focus 2) -> Enough to get the best bow
  
• Riding (focus 5)
  
• Athletics (focus 5) -> Levels slowly so boost this
  
• Leadership (focus 4) -> Levels slowly (put on focus 5 later, when it reaches its limits)
  
• Medicine (focus 5) -> Levels slowly so boost this

You will have some focus points left. So spent them on this priority:

1. Charm -> Easy to level/goes up fast by donating prisoner lords
   
2. Roguery -> Does level medium fast
   
3. Tactics -> Does level from time to time so give it space to continue

For example: Charm (3), Roguery (3), Tactics (2)

Athletics

Do everything you can to level Athletics to also get the Endurance and Vigor bonus. Your target should be Endurance lvl 7 and Vigor lvl 7 at least.
Athletics must have perks:

• Healthy Citizens (Endurance+1)
  
• Strong (Vigor+1)

And now?

So you have gotten a lot of skills, which you now can fill with experience points. That is where your journey can begin.
Keep maximizing Leadership, Charm, Tactics and Roguery later on. After that you might also want to max out Bow.

I did not yet reach this point. So that is where my recommendation ends.

What about the other skills?!?

Use companions for Scout, Quartermaster and Engineer. Set yourself as the Surgeon.

[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.

[kristianjakob]

引用自 NotIfo：

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.

Take Battania (Super archers and a good active region)

On character creation it can be a good idea to get focus in Medicine and Leadership. Both have a useful first perk. The former (preventive medicine) will heal a portion of your health after each battle and the latter (combat tips) will allow you to recruit more troops from your own culture.

Use horse and bow. Its easy/fairly safe and it provides alot of XP for faster levelling.

Well.. super archers

Quests are mostly a waste of time. You main goal is essentially to scale up to the point where you can start taking on other lords as a merc.

[Sleepysteve]

I just tried out a riding plus throwing build and I have to say it is insane for the early game. Immediately sell your melee weapon and buy a desert horse and max javelins and of course solo a bunch of looters. Once you have a fast horse and the faster throw speed perk your javelins will one shot looters for like 400 dmg and ragdoll them 20 feet which is ultra satisfying lmao. You also get insane amounts of xp for these high speed kills. You can solo looters up to level 15-17 super fast. I used all these levels to dump points into athletics, two handed, roguery, and charm. Now it is time to run around the map doing prison breakout missions and GIGA FARMING roguery and charm. Honestly it is a very fun way to play.

So I will be strong in combat and make a lot of money from battles thanks to the large amount of loot from roguery plus the first trade skill perk for better prices on equipment. I also will have very high relations with the clans I am breaking out of prison so I can recruit them to my eventual kingdom.

I came up with this build literally trying to find a fun and good way of not smithing because it is cheese and makes the game unfun for me).

[SievertChaser]

引用自 Sleepysteve：

I came up with this build literally trying to find a fun and good way of not smithing because it is cheese and makes the game unfun for me).

Ironic. My current smith has turned into a mounted javelineer when I'm not playing polo with a 2H axe.

Don't really see a point in levelling Roguery.

[SievertChaser]

引用自 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.