Trade Guide

[✚ Mariel ✚]

NOTE: I've since created a guide with more in-depth and tested information. It's called Money Guide - November 2015. I recommend you read that instead of this early information!

Edit: Please check my 5th post I've learned some new things and some of this info is incorrect!

Just a quick trade guide for the newest version of WFAS as of Hallo'ween 2015!

Each faction has specific resources that it primarily imports and exports. If you want to know how tell what they produce and import, if a town has a lot of a resource then it is producing it to export, if it has a little of each resource it produces it for itself and doesnt need an import, and if it lacks a resource then it needs to import the resource by trade. As a general rule you need to buy resources when a town has a lot of that resource and sell it to towns that completely lack it while avoiding the small quantities of resources like 1-3 of that resource. The exception to this rule are spice/velvet which are very valuable but usually appear in small quantities. There are also strange resources like powder and raw silk that are evenly dispersed or that are cheap and appear in small quantities in specific areas. A strong trader can buy these and sell them to any town that doesn't have any, which will probably be the next town you come across.

If you have strong trade skill then you can buy from stacks of 4-6 of a resource and sell it to towns of a faction that doesnt produce it. If your trade skill is 0 like mine then you can only buy from the towns that produce a ton of a resource. In the next post I will list the import/exports of each faction and then in the third post I will list the towns that produce massive amounts of each resource. In my final post I will tell you where to buy and sell the most lucrative resources.

[✚ Mariel ✚]

Sweden - Produces the cheapest trade goods in large quantities and buys most things. Best place to begin when you have little money. Muscovites, Cossacks and Crimeans buy fish. Muscovites and Polish buy pottery
Exports: Pottery, Oil, Fish, Salt, Wool Cloth
Imports: Velvet, Tools, Spice, Wool, Iron, Flour, Dyes, Leatherworks, Fur, Flour

Poland - Imports very little and has the most medium value exports. Good early game for trading with Sweden or Crimean Khanate
Exports: Oil, Beer, Flour, Tools, Wool Cloth, Salt
Imports: Velvet, Iron, Spice, Pottery

Muscovite Tsardom - Only place aside from Azaq-Kale that sells Spice, produces little else and buys most things
Exports: Furs, Dyes, Spice, Wool
Imports: Oil, Fish, Salt, Velvet, Flour, Pottery, Beer, Tools, Iron, Leatherworks

Cossack - Very balanced economy that produces most things in small quantities, making it bad for trade, can buy Polish goods, if you are passing through on the way to Muscovite or Sweden then pick up leatherworks from Sich and flour from Chernigov. Crimeans also buy flour but Poland doesn't buy Cossack goods.
Exports: Leatherworks, Salt, Wine
Imports: Iron, Oil, Beer

Crimean Khanate - Produces a wide range of medium and high value goods, can buy spices from Muscovite or beer/flour from Poland
Exports: Salt, Pottery, Velvet, Spice (1 town), Leatherworks, Iron
Imports: Flour, Beer, Fish

As you can see, the southern factions of Crimean Khanate and Poland produce a lot but import very little, and the opposite is true for the northern factions of Sweden and Muscovite Tsardom that produce little and import most things, although the Tsardon has most of the spice, the second most valuable trade resource. The Cossack economy kinda sucks for trading, but they can buy some Polish goods and produce leather to sell in Poland of Muscovite Tsardom.

You can stay in the West and buy Polish goods to sell in Sweden, and progress to trading Velvet and Spice between Crimean Khanate and Muscovite Tsardom.

[✚ Mariel ✚]

Edit: stock varies a lot from place to place, you can expect cities located around the cities I have listed to occasionally produce the same thing e.g. towns around Vilna may produce large amounts of Oil

Special Towns:
Sweden:
Revel - Tons of pottery and fish
Dynaburg - Tons of fish
Riga - Tons of fish, lots of pottery
Koenigsberg - tons of salt, lots of linen and fish
Allenstein Castle - lots of beer

Poland:
Vilna - Tons of oil and grapes (sell grapes anywhere)
Warsaw - Tons of beer and flour, lots of tools and iron
Zbarazh Fortress - Tons of flour
Lviv - Tons of Wool Cloth, lots of powder (if a town doesnt have powder then sell it there)
Krakov - Lots of honey and flour (sell honey anywhere)

Muscovite Tsardom:
Pskov - Lots of furs, dried meat and pottery
Novgored - Sometimes spice
Tver - Sometimes spice
Moscow - Sometimes spice
Izum Fortress - Sometimes spice

Cossack:
Kiev: Sometimes velvet, tons of butter and bread
Sich: Tons of leatherworks and pottery, lots of dye
Chernigov: Tons of flour, lots of honey
Smolensk: Tons of Dried Meat, lots of wool

Crimean Khanate:
Akkerman - Tons of cheese and salt, lots of bread, sometimes velvet
Kyzkerman - Tons of dried meat and pottery, lots of leatherworks
Cherkassy - Sometimes velvet
Kezlev Fortress - Sometimes velvet
Bakhchisaray - Sometimes velvet, tons of pottery, lots of leatherworks
Cherkassk - Sometimes spice, tons of iron and bread, lots of dye (Note: This is a Muscovite City and probably will remain so, but it's far from their main territory, pretty much in the Crimean Tsardom, so I consider it Crimean)
Azaq-kale - Sometimes velvet, lots of spice, lots of wine, lots of iron, some powder

[✚ Mariel ✚]

Deleted, info was wrong XD

[✚ Mariel ✚]

Ok I now realise that the towns stock varies quite a lot! Some towns like Vilna will reliably produce certain goods like Oil, and it seems certain regions have a high chance of producing certain goods while others cannot produce certain goods. For instance, iron only appears in bulk in the far SE section of the map

I've come up with a more reliable strategy for profiting from trade which I will list in my next post. Basically you can buy a resource when it is below a certain number and sell it when it is above a certain number. Typically it will be below that price value if the town/castle has a lot of it in stock and will be above that value if it has none of it in stock but even leaving the supply aside prices can be a bit different from place to place.

My previous guide was correct in that certain factions produce more of something than others. However, some towns even within the same fief can pay a decent price for the goods that same faction produces. For instance, you can buy spice for 700 from some Crimean towns and sell it in other nearby Crimean towns for 800

The info I am providing is tested at 0 trade with no companions with the trade skill so if you have any trade you can expect to get even better prices!

[✚ Mariel ✚]

Average price for goods at 0 trade. Buy goods for less than this price and sell them for more!

Oil: 400
Salt: 220
Linen: 180
Fish: 50
Beer: 100
Wool Cloth: 240
Flour: 50
Spice: 800
Velvet: 950
Wine: 200
Dried Meat: 70
Iron: 220
Dyes: 180
Bread: 30
Leather: 180
Pottery: 90
Hemp: 140
Tools: 400
Vodka: 300

I will update as I test more goods. Prices can vary quite wildly from area to area. I typically run a circuit in a loop from Sweden to Crimean Tsardom, passing through the southern Polish and Cossack cities. I tend not to bother going towards Smolensk or the Muscovite Tsardom they don't have much (although Smolensk gives a great price for beer)

[✚ Mariel ✚]

Final strategy:
You can earn money from buying less or selling higher than what I listed above, but I'm now getting 80% of my money specifically from powder.

Search towns for powder at less than 500. You'll typically see it from 150-250. Sell it at castles and forts for >700. My profit margin, now at 2 trade is about 500 per powder keg, and you find it all over the place in every town. So far it's the most reliable money making method I have found, and very simple and easy to do at any location on the map!

[Aquilatreon]

+1, put this guide in Guide section pls!!

[✚ Mariel ✚]

I will soon if you like :D

[Aquilatreon]

Cool! Thanks! :P

[Mr. Shaggnificent]

Originally posted by Aquilatreon:

+1, put this guide in Guide section pls!!

Seconded.

[Desparadox]

Great work

[✚ Mariel ✚]

I made a guide and expanded on it. It's now a money guide. Enjoy!

[Mr. Shaggnificent]

Originally posted by jenniferthomas28:

I made a guide and expanded on it. It's now a money guide. Enjoy!

I looked in the guide section, but I can't find it.

[✚ Mariel ✚]

Yeah I don't know why it isn't there. You can see the guide on my profile though so it does exist

[Mr. Shaggnificent]

Are you sure you published it? I tried going through your profile too, but it's not there either.