Mount & Blade 2 Bannerlord HOW to Survive Starting a Kingdom Beginner's Guide (Console)

foreign [Music] and today we are in Mountain blade to Banner Lords and this video is going to be about how do you successfully keep hold of your um of your kingdom once you finally have a kingdom and you're all kushty and up and running now up here you can see that I have exactly one castle that's all I've managed to get I've got one castle and I am officially a kingdom which is kind of brilliant I'm glad that I'm here this is where I am currently in this playthrough and you can see there I am right there I have got one castle that is it that is all I've got so I want to talk to you about now about what I would consider or what I would look at doing after achieving this in order to actually stay alive and stay kicking because as a lot of you are finding out when you finally create your kingdom and have your Castle you are easy pickings lots of people are looking at you because you're the smallest on the map I mean look about you know all the other Kingdoms in on this continent you're the smallest guys you're the easiest Target and it can be difficult to actually maintain and you know continue being a kingdom after you've managed to get this far so and this video is just going to be talking very briefly about certain things you can look at doing um after you've achieved this hopefully this video can help you guys out I'll be telling you what I done in my playthrough and what I would suggest for you as well at least things to look at um hopefully it gives you a little bit of direction and just helps you guys out if it does let me know down in the comments also don't forget to hit that like button and subscribe to the channel that way you don't miss out on more videos just like this as I am covering battlelots as extensively as I can on Console at least that's the plan so as we said I have a castle which is absolutely great one thing I would consider doing is making sure that you have as many troops inside there as possible now you can actually Garrison troops yourself as in you move your own troops into the castle or to the town to defend it now that number is capped unfortunately um but I would suggest putting as many in as possible and I would also suggest that once you do fill it I would begin filling it after that with archers archers when it comes to sieging defending so so important especially Defending Your castles also heavy infantry now I've covered your best troops in um previous videos so if you don't know the type of troops to be looking out for I would suggest hitting that video because it can be really really helpful but yeah so heavy infantry and archers crossbows that kind of deal are gonna really help you actually keep this Castle alive also after that you know you could actually move to have your castle looking at recruiting extra military basically just random troops that you know low level troops are going to be helping as you can see the castle in question right now has a defense of around just over 400. now that's pretty good to be fair we're actually finally here and we can actually look so we can look at military grounds that can be a thing you can do which will provide weapon training for citizen each level increases daily military recruitment meaning you get to recruit more now if we have a look and if we go is it here I believe it here that is the Garrison whereas the military I believe this is the military there you go and that will show you um how many more militar per day we actually get and you can see it's a very slow build but we are building um the town's doing quite well so we get 0.6 from that we've got Swift strike which is 0.5 from that um so you can see and we also get a base of two as well and that Melissa is going to keep going up which is quite nice but it does take a little while for that to actually build but it's definitely starting to look in look out for and as you can see we are currently at our cap we're about our cap we can add exactly one more true pin but yeah so that's a really good way of uh ensuring that you can keep your Castle alive really without you actually being there unless a huge Army does kick you quite often it does I've had people comment and saying you know troop sizes of 1400 people are attacking you now I understand that's a lot there's a couple of things though that can really help you out when it comes to actually creating your kingdom being able to have a kingdom means you can therefore make armies and armies are of course or any Lord that you have um in your uh Kingdom can be joined into an armual recruited into an army now when you very first start out you are going to be the only Clan we happen to be the only clan in My Kingdom right now if we go over two clans you can see that not only are we the ruling Clan but we are also the only Clan and if we go over to our clan and go over to parties you can see we have the maximum we have four parties meaning we have three extra parties these are people that I've chosen to lead extra troops and as you can see some of them are better than others and they each have their own troops as well now when we go to create an army are we going to bring in all of those troops with us so we have a huge Army size right now of 239 and we can add all these up and if we added all those up we're gonna get a decent size Army at least big enough including our Castle to win a battle or two now one thing I would say is that when it comes to the different Kingdoms in a game or different empires in a game they don't have unlimited troops you know these guys as you can see right here the northern Empire they have a total of 7 000 troops now that's 7 000 troops including every single Lord that they have all their towns all their castles all their combined garrisons completely so if they're marching an army size of 1400 at you and you actually managed to beat that defend that then they're not going to be able to just straight up and do another 1400 it's going to take them a little bit of time so getting that first defense in is going to be so so useful to you I would suggest as well kicking it behind your walls if they are attacking you with that kind of size I would also gather an army now one thing you can do is when you're being attacked from with inside your um your Castle is you can create an army so as they're sieging you can get your other clan members to kind of you know rejoin regroup and meet you at your castle if it means you coming out to help them out and to actually allow them to get in a castle then that's something again I would recommend doing and because having your guys with you um is going to be really useful especially if they Declare War as soon as you declare war get that Army ready because it's going to be so important and of course you being the only Clan means you can recruit everyone in at no influence cost whatsoever meaning it's not going to cost you anything and for people that don't know don't know yet influence is something that you begin earning once you are a part of a kingdom now you can join up as a mercenary you can join up as a vassal or you can have your own kingdom and be part of that Kingdom but that's your influence within your own Kingdom so let's say for instance I was to join the landia and then I built up a thousand influence there I wouldn't be able to leave them take that influence and join another kingdom doesn't work that way that's your influence you have within your kingdom so if you've just started a kingdom you will probably have zero influence but you will see influence change like you will be gaining influence every single day it's a daily change um and I would recommend building up now it's very very tempting to use it because when you very first start a kingdom you've got lots of things that you can do and there's some really juicy things you can do as well if you pop into policies for instance you can see I actually have a few policies already active my favorite policy is royal guard love this policy absolutely brilliant ruling party Inc or sorry the rulers party size has increased by 60 which is huge guys that's a huge increase and explains why my party size is 239 because before that obviously it wasn't and in non-roying Clans lose 0.2 influence now again this is something I would absolutely try and have it does cost a hundred influence to enact it however something that I would say is I would save up your influence if you have a hundred influence if you've managed to get 100 influence now influence is gained through lots of different minute and things it's passively earned but it's also an free battle so if you happen to be at War and you win a few battles you should be earning influence once you've got 100 influence you can enact a policy or you can go to diplomacy and ask for peace which is really good now a lot of people wouldn't want to do peace they see it as you know losing face for offering peace because what happens when you offer peace as you can see we are having to pay 2280 Dinars per day in order to keep the northern Empire away also Britannia I'm having to pay 2050 Dinars per day in order to keep them away because I asked for peace to close down the wall I asked to close down the wall because I couldn't keep up the troops in my own personal Army the troops in my castle of course if I'm constantly at War then it means that my other clan members are also constantly at War meaning that their their own party sizes are dwindling if I go into constantly going into those fights these guys are going to be in an army with me with only say 20 troops alive meaning I have to allow them to get out of the army and build up their troops again in order to you know continue fighting so offering that piece or trying to sue for peace and is a really good way to spend your influence now if you end up choosing or acquiring a castle in the middle of the map then you're going to have multiple kingdoms looking to attack you because you're accessible to multiple kingdoms right now as you can see Britannia right here they wanted war and we've also had the Empire as well they wanted War I don't think I've gone to war with the land here just yet but I wouldn't rule it out and these guys are probably going to want to go to war me eventually as well so me keeping that influence on me just in case ensures that I know that I'm safe that I can buy myself time well for instance I find more towns like this now Omar right now is a rebel town so I could go over take it over I don't have to go to war with anyone and I'm kind of cushy however it is far away but it does mean it gives me a little bit of time to have a little thing to build up some forces to decide which kingdom and where I want to expand now there are definitely policies that can help you out so once you have a hundred two hundred spare influence I would look at in acting a few of these policies how and it will look see there are some really really good ones and typically you vote on them um you vote on them it costs you influence and the other clan members can decline it and they can not like it therefore it will probably cost you more influence to pass the law however if you're the only clan in a kingdom it's not going to cost you much influence it costs you 100 influence per term and that means you can get some really good policies and going like for instance royal guard and there is also another policy that will increase your party size if you are Clan tier five however for me right now only Clancy of four so therefore that's not going to help me but there are things that can help you so look at that increasing your party size being able to have more troops is going to really really help so it's just about biding you enough time to acquiring enough troops to actually help also point to mention that upgraded troops will beat ten to one sometimes the other troops in a game you gotta remember that a lot of these people are going around from town to town recruiting their bear bomb troops and then marching them straight into other people whereas you're walking around having top tier level troops and you're able to kill 10 times as many by having those numbers so don't worry about having a smaller troop size make sure you've got quality make sure you've got the right troops and make sure you just give yourself that time I think that's really the best bits of advice for you I'm going to be doing a playthrough and continuing a playthrough on a channel we're going to get up to the stage of having castles and stuff like that we're still at the baby stages at the moment and but in that I'm going to be covering all these type of things and going in longer details hopefully this video has helped you giving you some kind of idea as to what you should be looking at if it has let me know down in the comments is there something that you want me to go into greater detail in then I will happily do that I understand that recruiting Clans is another big thing and it's going to be the thing that I will do a whole video on but when you get to this stage recruiting a clan is really important um having more people join you is is really important and it's not easy either the way you want to do it is find a clan let's say for instance um the land here let's go to the land here I'm going to go to one of these guys right here so you need to find the leader of the clan whoever he is it will tell you the last place that they have been seen once you see him you will ask for a discussion and typically it will cost you money in order to get them to join you if you have enough money and if you're persuasion in other words your charm is up high enough or even if you have a high relation with them in other words building up these relations since the beginning of the game guys which is why a big tick from me is to always give back the Lord instead of taking him prisoner because you will slowly build up relationship that way doing so means that they'd generally be cheaper when it comes to recruiting them to your kingdom now as you can see I have 800 000 right now which is a tidy sim a tidy some it's it's not bad um it's it needs to be a lot bigger but that's not too bad I could probably recruit one or two half decent Clans with that but my point being guys it's gonna cost you recruiting Clans is not cheap it's not necessarily easy um and what I would also say is typically if you give a clan leader a castle they will be happy you know just remember that everyone wants to own a piece of the world so think carefully about what you give them why you give them it Etc um but yeah everyone wants to own a piece of land so if you don't give them a piece of land eventually they are probably going to leave you so keep that in mind as well but anyway I think that about wraps up this video especially as it's you know it's near and um being a big full in-depth video I can certainly do a more in-depth video If this guide hasn't been um enough for you guys let me know down in the comments how you feel about it if you want to see more and you know for me to do more information perhaps I could just do like maybe an hour of me actually going around recruiting Clans and taking over castles if that's something you want to see let me know and I will make it happen and we do also have that active Discord as well the link will be down in the description if you want to join and have a chat about a game tell me how your story is going so far I've been really interesting to see what you guys are up to but until then guys I've been a month we've been acrosity cruise and I hope you enjoy the rest of these videos and I will see you in the next one real soon until then let's take it easy and happy gaming

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Length: 18min 2sec (1082 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 08 2022