Mercenaries, Vassals & Castles Guide - Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord

castle's it's something that we've all wanted since the ripe age of six and since I just stopped breastfeeding yesterday I'm gonna share my guide with you guys on how to get a castle now I want to hit you guys with a hard disclaimer upfront this process seems to be a little bugged right now so what I'm gonna do is this video is gonna cover how to become a mercenary and a vassal as well as just kind of a light overview on vassalage and then we're gonna go into my experience with trying to recreate getting a castle now a castle seems to be again a little bugged so I apologize if I repeat myself a little bit during the explanation of this process but it originally I sought out to make a guide for this but it ended up becoming more of a series of tests and these tests kind of conclude that getting a castle is somewhat swell inconclusive once we get to that section we can kind of go over it and I'll kind of give you guys a preface about it but I essentially did four tests that will outline right before we jump into the castle section but first let's go over how to become a mercenary or a vassal because both of them are actually pretty crucial to I to both increasing your renown so you have the proper tier rank to become a vassal and vassal in and of itself is required to then get a castle so let's dive on in and take a look at some of these features all right so here we are on the campaign map and before we dive into becoming a mercenary or a vassal you have to decide which Kingdom you're gonna do it for obviously I'm taking a look at my map and I wanted to become a vassal eventually of Velandia now here's the thing with a vassal versus a mercenary a mercenary you can pretty much choose any nation and just like you can for a vassal but if you decide you don't want to become a mercenary you lose 20 relations with all of the Lords of that respective nation if you do as a vassal if you if you drop out of becoming a vassal if you break the word as it is your oath then you lose quite a bit more so mercenary is more of like a hey I'm just trying to get some quick money and build my renown and if I leave this nation it's not gonna affect me too much but if you do it as a vassal it's pretty damning so what I would say is if you want to become a mercenary and that's what you what you really should do so pop up your clan tears if your tier one then you can become a mercenary if your tier two you can become a vassal obviously you can't become a vassal if you are not tier two now before you decide where you want a vassal or where you want a mercenary what you should really do is find out who is at war with who and if that kind of conflicts with your plans like for instance let's say you started over here in Poros wherever it is on the map right here and you know I don't just want to be a mercenary of any one of the empires you know you've got the Western you well this would have been southern empire if it had been to completely destroy by everything and the northern empire I want to be one of their mercenaries because I eventually want to be a vassal of Velandia that's exactly the route I took well this Kingdom menu would tell you exactly who's at war with who and it would be a very handy thing to see prior to choosing a mercenary or vassal but you can't so instead you're gonna press n and you're gonna go over here to kingdoms and you're gonna click whichever empire you want to become a mercenary up first let's just go southern empire cuz that's what I did and you see who they're at war with it's always going to be displayed down here so I can see that there are at war with betánia and cuz eight northern empire and these guys are minor NPC factions so I don't want to vassal add that because Bassel vassal with any of these or become a vassal of any of these nations so it's fine I can do this but let's say I was looking at betánia well betánia is sorry no I think is actually she stirs you at this point my saves yeah so stir Gaea is at war with Velandia and if I want to become a vassal of LAN dia I would not go become a mercenary at stir Gaea this would reduce my relations with LAN dia as I raid and pillage through his hair entire territories so make sure you take a look at N beforehand again you're gonna want to go from home to kingdoms and just choose the one you're gonna mercenary with first once you do that that's actually a good point we bring this back up so let's say you're you're gonna become a mercenary of the just because I'm right in front of the the building you're gonna find the leader because any ruler is gonna send you to the leader they'll say hey here's where he is in the map you go to der through the ruler okay well last seen at NER horn ad okay well that's what we're gonna need to go so we click this track button and we're gonna need to go over here to chor nad so what we're gonna do is we're gonna charge on over to der third and when we talk to him we're gonna basically say hey I would like to become a mercenary or a vassal all right so we found der third has a lovely little crown on and we can say there's something I'd like to discuss now I would like to enter your service so here's where it gets a little different but you've got two options here my sword is yours for is my sword is yours for the right sum that is your mercenary option if you don't have a high enough clan tier this option will be grayed out and says my lord I would pledge allegiance to you and be counted among your loyal followers and that is your vassal option so choosing either one of these mercenary for the first one or vassal for the second one will set you on course to becoming a mercenary or a vassal now with a versa nary well we'll just go ahead and press my sword as rush to the right some and he says if you fight for us you will receive 15 gold whenever you defeat a party of enemies or any other significant deed all right so let's go back here real quick and really the only things to keep a note for a becoming a mercenary is this field right here so this tells me that every day I'm gonna get 15 gold per influence I have now it's not gonna cash out all as once it's just gonna kind of slowly chip away from it but you can use this influence to basically get more and more money as a mercenary I would recommend selling all of your prisoners and your captured heroes to the tavern because influences isn't that worthwhile for you you can't claim keeps or anything like that but you can join armies and if you join armies then you can get a lot of money and a lot of good relations but all most importantly you're going to build this up you're gonna build your renown up so you can get to clan rank - and that's help you out in becoming a vassal let's jump over to the vassal system alright so here's my save as a vassal and I'm in an army right now and vassal is a little bit different than mercenary well in a lot of ways actually but for one this influence system can actually be used as a secondary currency in the kingdom menu and we'll bring that up in just a little bit in addition to you can vote on the rulership of castles after people have attacked and besieged them especially if you're a part of them obviously you do a lot of things that can help out your individual playthrough let's bring up your kingdom and you can see all of the fights the clans everything then this is visible to you as a mercenary as well but it's more pertinent to you if you're a vassal and this is the screen I was talking about that gives you all the information of who's what like botanial right now we're at war with and we're struggling back and forth so if I click over here two armies I'm sorry two policies well this shows you to build the the armies that are currently visible I click over here to policies I have a bunch of policies that I can enact in the in in the kingdom and that will actually be done on its own you don't have to do any of these but let's say for instance this one Council of Commons each notable yields are notable nobles basically yields one influence per day to the settlements owners settlements owner clan daily militia production is increased by one per notable in the sub settlement so this will help you out in increasing your influence trial by jury also has influence on things or if you come down here to military core and I military achievements grant 30% more influence so if you are romping and stomping through the land and you're doing a lot of damage to enemy towns you're taking over castles you're taking over cities then you could propose the military corn i which already has a hundred support hundred percent support in the kingdom you would take 50 influence you'd propose it everyone would vote on it and it would then be enacted as a policy so if you're doing a lot of military achievements to increase your influence then boom this is going to help you because right as soon as you do that you gonna be increasing the amount of influence you get per action either attacking seed attacking defending or raiding villages so it's really really helpful to kind of tailor how you're playing for your game futile heritance the cost of provoking a fight from clan has doubled lands game point to influence for each five they own so remember you own a clan so as soon as you take over a fight by giving a castle or owning a town for us part of a counselor or city then that is portion of your fight now magistrate's town Security's increased by one per day we're looking clean ruler clan gains one influence per day down taxes are reduced by 5% so use these policies to really kind of cater your custom playthrough as you increase your fights in your respective Kingdom now owning your kingdom right now is a little bit of a difficult situation that it's a little bug so I'm talking strictly about an NPC characters Kingdom that you've joined but let's go into castles now and that little bit of a hornet's nest that it is so taking a castle Early's getting a castle is not that hard but it is a little difficult so right now I've already kind of signed up to become a vassal of LAN dia and through that I wanted to get a castle so I joined the army of dirt the major leader of LAN dia and we went and took a castle of betánia so after you take a castle if you jump into the hole a kingdom into the five section you'll get decision do you want to resolve owner of threat tri castle decision it'll be automatically resolved in six hours let's go ahead and press ok and we can see that for this situation I've actually believed this is not the house we were part of so we'll abstain now I think that this might be a bug right now but unless you can directly influence this either way your Lord will always vote for himself and I think it the ty always goes to the Lord so take a look here we'll press abstain even though in golfer has a hundred percent of the vote Oh surprisingly enough that actually worked I've actually dealt with it a number of times in my own playthroughs where it did not go through like that where the the a I had like ninety eight percent and it still didn't give it to the AI so that is just an example of one you were not a part of let's take a look at when you are actually a part of seeing a castle so here is a castle that we did take part and actually besieging and taking over now this percentage bar at the bottom here is dependent upon your presence within the castle siege were you on the walls did you storm in this case I was actually just hacking at the gate because I wanted to test some stuff so don't hack at the gate but if you are an archer and you're out on the sidelines and you're shooting up and destroying people that are actually on the parapets and the towers this increases this percentage now right now I don't have enough influence you need about 50 influence to influence this vote you can see here that I've got aa spear another nobleman who has kind of weighed in and said you know what regard he did a really good job on this siege I want to go to him now the majority rule is still for a current now this should when I press abstain go to der third and I might be wrong here the AI seems to be very funky about who actually gets it unless you can do something to kind of be the tiebreaker here so we'll do an abstain and then after this I'll show you what happens once we can actually influence the vote and then hopefully get a castle for ourselves will click abstain is he and it bumps him up to 1% yeah well actually I went to a current so interestingly enough this has been different than what I've been experiencing when I've been doing this prior to this video I've been testing a couple little bits okay what happens when I'm staying here who gets it here and there like for instance I had 80% majority but I couldn't influence the vote and it still went to der third so there's a very interesting dichotomy with this that I think that it will never go to you and this is speculation it will never go to you if you can't influence the vote that's at least what I've experienced in the five or six castles that I've come across well let's see what happens when we can influence the vote okay after a lot of romping around doing a ton of stuff I was able to do damage to a castle and essentially have my guys really kind of vote for me in my favor here right they all threw their influence in to me they've they've through a little bit more so I'm gonna use 100 of my influence to see if I can take this castle over from aldrick over here and look I've gotten my own castle here so really what this came down to was simply being in good relation with a lot of the other lords that way they they threw their favor towards me when it came to actually fighting in the castle itself and winning it over I didn't do anything any different than I've done for any other Castle really what it comes like of what it comes down to again is your strong relations and your ability to influence above 50% into one of these castles now I have a load of this save multiple times try and see what this outcome is like anytime below at any time I'm below 50% I actually do not get the positive outcome for getting my castles so a castle is tedious to come by because it's not so simple as just simply seating it and taking it over what it really comes down to is your ability to build up relations with your other Lords have a strong amount of influence already generated enough so that you can try and sway a vote there is a chance though that your influence in that screen will be much higher I've like I said before I've had it so that was at 70 or 80 percent and because I couldn't influence it anymore I couldn't kind of cast to go to my own favor then it went to the faction leader so I think that the whole voting portion for castles is still a little bug but if you are having trouble getting your own castle and trying to really start your own Kingdom as a result I encourage you to again a become a vassal the increase all your relations with all the other lords see get your your influence up as high as you can before doing it and then just push yourself about 50% those seem to be the big four or five criteria that are required to secure a castle for yourself otherwise it looks like there's some sort of bug in the system and it doesn't kind of roll the dice in your favor and it decides to just say okay well we're gonna give the castle to the leader and I'm not really sure if that's intended or if it's something that's gonna be change because this is early access a lot of this stuff seems to be kind of a little bare-bones when it comes to voting for the castles and this is just simply Velandia I know that on another some other kingdoms have a different process when it comes to castles so and it also could could be dependent upon your policies that you have in order if you have policies that make it so that your military generals get more influenced it would help you out in this process so I think that to get a castle it really depends on your playthrough where you're at in your certain Kingdom and the policies and so on and so forth but for the most part I have very little policies enacted and Velandia here so hopefully this should kind of give you a base quote-unquote control of what it takes to secure a castle in your name for your kingdom alright so here we are with another castle that I've taken over and in this one I was up close and personal doing as much damage as I could now the difference is that I didn't like charge a head so what you really have to do is make sure you're staying with the army as soon as they go to put ladders on the wall be they're mounting the ladders mount the ladder get up there start doing some damage and then get inside and start killing people I've noticed that the more you kill the more percentage you get towards owning the castle so I could abstain but I don't think that that will actually get me the vote so I'm gonna use my fifty leadership here my fifty influence and my current relation with Tory Otto's is just terrible and it still will go to der third here so that should let you guys know it doesn't matter if you're at 100% you still can lose the castle so it just seems to be like depending on how much influence you want to throw at it is how much you're gonna get out of it so I honestly say just kind of do what you can when it comes to these castles and throw as much influence as you can to actually secure it clearly I was at 100 I posted the vote for myself and it still didn't go in my favor so I still think that the castle system is a little bugged right now and I think that we'll probably seen this fix with some other patches in the future but this is just me kind of going through the steps here with you guys to show you that it really doesn't matter what percentage you're at you could be at 100% but I didn't put one under it influence into this one so I didn't win the castle though I'm not really sure if it's if it's geared towards that percentage thing if it's geared towards your individual relationship with leaders because I actually have good relationship with the leader of LAN dia and I still didn't get to castle and I didn't abstain so there's a lot of weird factors going on right now that we should hopefully be able to discover in the coming weeks and months as we get closer to the full launch of banner Lord but I figured this was a good video to get out to you guys so you can kind of see what it's like to get a castle is it a fluke is it easy to do what kind of process do you have to go through so I'd say my recommendation is to get 100 influence get those positive relationships and then just kind of go from there but hopefully this kind of helps you guys out with securing your castles for yourselves if you do have any questions about castles if you if you've done them yourselves and you hey this is what's worked for me please go ahead and leave a comment I'd love to get as much information as possible about building kingdoms castles and everything out to the greater populous that way we can either so report these things as bugs or say hey this is the kind of finicky system that's in place right now and this is kind of kind of how you have to game it so as always guys thank you so much for watching here today don't forget to like subscribe leave a comment below all that kind of cool action but oh if you haven't picked up banner Lord I've put a link in the description you can go ahead and pick it up through that link and it will give you a steam key but it just kicks me back a 10% commission it was in it's a pretty minimally invasive way to support the channel while at the same time picking up an award for yourself but again guys as always thank you so much for watching here today have a good one and take care

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Length: 19min 17sec (1157 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 05 2020

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[u/TheItalian567]

Ahoy gang! Got another guide here for you, this time on Mercenaries, Vassals & Castles. The Castles system seems to be a BIT bugged right now, so my biggest recommendations are:

- Get high relations with the other Nobles

- Spend minimum 100 influence on the vote for the Castle

- Participate in the siege as much as you can.

Go ahead and let me know your experience with getting a Castle and I'd love to chronicle it all to test more out. You'll see all 4 of my tests in the video, but here they are summarized:

1. Zero participation in the siege + zero influence spent (at 0% chance)
2. Participation in the siege + zero influence spent (at 33% chance)
3. Participation in the siege + 100 influence spent (at 54% chance)
4. Participation in the siege + 50 influence spent (at 100% chance)