RECLAIMING THRONE

[AlBoZzZ]

hello all,

how to help reclaiming thrones mount blade warband after you have made your own kingdom and want to help someone else?

[Nonbinary]

i think you need to find the claimant you want to help and just ask to pledge like normal, and you will give up your own kingdom and become their vassal. i guess you also get to keep any fiefs you have claimed while in your own kingdom

i have tried joining a faction after i made my own, i just spoke with the king and he let me join. i guess its the same with a claimant, but i havent tried that one

[Kriekdrinker]

i dont think u can unless u let all your castles get taken

[Dog]

why would you pledge yourself to some scrub when you can btfo everyone and take all of calradia for yourself

[Austinlego10]

It works the same as any other faction except that you don't own anything you're only a lord to a king, and the person to help "Reclaim" their throne you do ALL the work and at the end he/she will be like "thanks for the help, you're my marshall now" (Sorry for the grammar) Anotherthing, I believe if you're helping the "true" king of the Swadians you can't recruite Swadian troops from their faction... Learned that the hard way... So yeah, to sum up all this talking, I'd reccomend not helping any of them unless you wan't to give up everything you've worked for thus far.

[White Knight]

You can't back a claimant if you are a King.

They will tell you "Why would you want to support me when you have your own kingdom to run?" or words to that effect. In order to take on a claimant quest, you have to give up your kingdom first.

I went through this process in my last Native playthrough. One option is to empty the garrisons of the castles you control, swear allegiance to another King, then rebel quickly and go see the claimant again. Then you can take back those undefended castles.

Choose the King that the claimant hates and you'll get a head start on a successful rebellion. That faction will benefit from your empty fiefs but the speed of your early successes will help to attract new lords and get the claimant a throne that much more quickly.

It's best to prepare for choices like these well ahead of time but if you are determined to give it a shot at this point (presumably for the achievements?), then this would be one way to do that.

Another option is to save your game, then do the whole claimant quest thing, quit and reload, then do it again as a King on your own.

[lionhart]

Originally posted by White Knight:

I went through this process in my last Native playthrough. One option is to empty the garrisons of the castles you control, swear allegiance to another King, then rebel quickly and go see the claimant again. Then you can take back those undefended castles.

If you are a king, you can swear allegiance to another king without giving up your castles. When you join the king's faction your castles will all change to the color of that faction but you retain ownership of them. Same thing when you swear allegiance to the claimant -- as long as it's the claimant from your current faction, you will keep all of your castles (and the contents of their garrisons) when you rebel.

[White Knight]

Originally posted by lionhart:

If you are a king, you can swear allegiance to another king without giving up your castles. When you join the king's faction your castles will all change to the color of that faction but you retain ownership of them. Same thing when you swear allegiance to the claimant -- as long as it's the claimant from your current faction, you will keep all of your castles (and the contents of their garrisons) when you rebel.

Oh great, now you tell me...lol

It's good that you fixed my crappy advice. Trashing those garrisons set me back for quite a while.

[lionhart]

Originally posted by White Knight:

It's good that you fixed my crappy advice. Trashing those garrisons set me back for quite a while.

I used exactly the method I described to put all six claimants on all six thrones. I started with the Swadians, took firm control of three centrally located cities, swore allegiance to Lady Isolla and put her on the throne, then rebelled against her and joined the Nords, swore allegiance to Lethwin Far-Seeker and put him on the throne, then rebelled against him and joined to next faction, rinse and repeat all the way around the map. And all the time I had my three fully garrisoned cities and personal army as the engine for the whole thing.