Sweet Realistic Medieval Combat (Mount and Blade)

[edyzmedieval]

Friend 1 - Bannerlord
Friend 2 - Bannerlord
Friend 3 - Bannerlord
Friend 4 - Bannerlord
Friend 5 - Bannerlord
Friend 6 - Bannerlord
Friend 7 - Bannerlord
Hooahguy - Warband

Well, thing is, a lot of people are staying put on Bannerlord because of many bugs. Waiting for the patches.

[edyzmedieval]

So anyways, I started blasting... with arrows in Bannerlord. Played the first few hours, won a tournament, did some merchant activities, quests and the like, really enjoying it.

However it's quite harder to raise money now than in Warband.

[Beskar]

So anyways, I started blasting... with arrows in Bannerlord. Played the first few hours, won a tournament, did some merchant activities, quests and the like, really enjoying it.

However it's quite harder to raise money now than in Warband.

I disagree slightly in overall costs. But items are very expensive, especially bows, but outside of this, it isn't too bad. There is a snowball effect where once you get going, the money starts to flow. There was a rather amusing game bug when it came to fief trading too (which has been fixed). Where you can could buy an entire kingdom for a horse.

I do now also have mods which make some of this aspect easier for me (such as autotrader) and I got BannerlordsTweaks and others which can have some compounding effects which makes it easier.

But the big money maker for me when I first started playing was going as a Mercenary, make all my units archers (or horse archers). These typically got more bang for buck, netting me prisoners which you can ransom off for a lot of money. With mercenary, you also got money for influence gained. So early game, pretty much sitting in a large area as they stomp things and I leeched money. When I got rank 2, turn myself into a vassal and I usually got a city or so early on via a vote. Once you got making good money, you can make wise investments into workshops too. Soon, you end up with a nice passive tick of income rolling you over which can be used to make investments and profits.

[Greyblades]

The big money comes from mercenary work, with about 40 cavalry you can take on merchant caravans for cash and raid enemy villiages for higher tier units, once you get a good enough army to comfortably smash individual lords the loot and ransoms can run up to 40K a go.

Bucellarii and vlandian light cav make a rather nice combo and they are upgradeable from recruits so you can get a lot of them, though the bucellarii can get expensive with both the requisite warhorses and their high upkeep, they are very versatile though.

[Greyblades]

I found the multistrike mod and now I spend my time swinging the biggest blade on a stick I can forge into the back of shield walls.

Thinking of changing the clan name to "reaperman"

[edyzmedieval]

I got a caravan and 2 workshops in Quyaz but still losing money.

[Greyblades]

Yeah the economy is pretty buggy at the moment, trading yourself works fairly well but caravans are very hit and miss, not helped late game when you go to war and your caravans become targets for enemy stacks.