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I think it is a mod... the warehouses I last looked at in my last game did not have a storage capacity of 12000. Unless this is the next upcoming patch?

I am just assuming it is a mod.

niekdegrijze said:

1 suggestion i made was to combine caravan management with workshop management. If you can manually connect your caravan routes to your workshops you have more controle of your trade network.

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That would me awesome. This is the sort of automation I would expect as a king! You: make things for me! You: go sell those things.
Everybody bring me all the moneys while I sit on my cushy throne. Or while I lead armies, anyways.

Or at least, let me send my freshly crafted weapons away in a caravan to sell elsewhere so I am not having to do it myself. I always get amused when a town runs completely out of cash in the market place. That is one change I like from warband: one big market instead of individual venders.

SudianX said:

I always wondered what "veteran militia" meant. I assume they still have no armor... so... higher skills maybe?

I don't remember the downsides, but I was never tempted to try it and see.

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Ok, I just looked at the troops trees of the in-game encyclopedia. There they are... veteran militia units. How did I miss that?

But I recently created a kingdom and looked through all of the policies... sure enough, there were 31 one there: and no land grants for veterans. None of the policies mentioned veteran militia. I think they did remove it in the most recent patch.

Unless we are both experiencing the same bug? I was running the game through steam on a PC.

The empty party thing is smart. I never even thought of that.

It sounds useful. I always feels bad when I don't hire freshly-rescued high level troops due to already having a full party.

Killer Kitten said:

My question is here:

1. How do you make the workshops, well, work in the game? What are some strategies to employ so they don't become money pits?
2. How can I actually win battles? I have not won a single battle when I outnumbered an enemy 3-1. And I get there's times when they have top tier troops and they'll stomp any low level troops. The problem is that they ALWAYS have high level troops. And my troops keep getting crush, even at higher levels. Is there a stat that I'm neglecting?

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1. I do not think that is possible. Try an olive press in Jaculan. Build and forget about it, but it is not exactly great and micro-managing does not seem to add any benefit. Just be aware: If you are ever at war with the faction housing your workshops (as a mercenary, vassal, whatever) you will immediately lose them, turning them into "money pits" and most likely overall losses. This is the most important factor to turning a profit with them: ensure peace between you and those locations (best if you are part of a faction that is strong... so more of a mid to end game thing).

2. Make sure you have top tier troops. Use the medic skill, rest in town between fights (use your companion's health as a rough gauge), and level up your own troops until you aren't fielding armorless wimps anymore. As you have noticed: quality is better than quantity. You can be the one taking on much larger forces once you have all top-tier troops. If you rest to heal up your troops before the next battle the biggest concern becomes $$.

Also: if $ is no longer a problem, consider the steward perks "paid in promise" and "giving hands." You can forgo loot profit for troop XP. While it is still far less troop XP than just fighting battles, it can be helpful in bumping up low tier troops to lower their chances of dying in battle before getting leveled up.

Kristal9 said:

I'm a lord. I siege new castes for my own without any help from other lords again and again. But after I win the siege battle there is not my option for the election of the owner of the castle. Why? Maybe because I never vote on elections of other castles?

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I don't know about the why for the owner selections but to me it feels even goofier when playing as the king and having to choose between 3 of your own vassals, not having the power to give it to yourself nor to a specific vassal of your choosing

I always felt like the sieges were overly bad for the defenders because of all of the forced militia units that have no armor . With the limited number of troops on the field at any time, every one of those tier 1 pushovers is one less real soldier able to spawn at the moment .

I was amused one year to find the My Little Pony characters posting about everything on the forums

Zorion_no said:

You do know that you can form armies in peace time? while the AI cant you the player can.
And if you form that army of the 3 clanlead - the cost of influence is 0..

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I hate moving around in an army because it is so absurdly slow.

One playthrough I found myself pausing the instant a war was declared (nice that it has a distinctive sound effect ) so that I could make a clan army. This was mainly to prevent them from donating their top tier troops to random places the AI army would take them ). This led to me being in an army during every war, slowly creeping around the map. I could swear I even put cunning and scouting skill on my family members and I only used them for party leaders, no companions (this was back when the older brother in the campaign was customizable). Nothing I did made it fun.

Travel was so annoyingly slow that I have not even bothered using other clan parties since then . I only form an army at the gates of a city I'm about to siege, letting vassals arrive as I set up siege engines and do my thing.

STcloz said:

Then the 275 perk of medicine must be misclassified as personal because it takes effect on party soldiers according to the description.

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Yes, I believe it currently performs as "party leader" and does not take effect if you have a surgeon appointed.

In my experience the "minister of health" must be on the party leader.

anoddhermit said:

What I do find is that maintaining T5/6 troops is too cheap.

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Am I correct in thinking that cavalry, archers, and infantry all have the same upkeep cost as long as they are the same tier in Bannerlord?

I think I saw this in game and was surprised (when I first started and did not know how to make money). I could swear cavalry cost more daily in Warband, and maybe even archers were different from infantry, when comparing the same tier. I always thought those differences made sense.

Maybe those old cost differences were tossed when it was decided we had to pay for the horses of our cavalry in this one . I found myself hoarding horses on my last playthrough (loot from every battle, never sold) and had developed quite the herding speed penalty once my cavalry stopped dying so much and needing replacements. Oops. (I think I sold 300+ war horses at once )

saittam said:

People who have problems with money in this game can´t be using rougery for loot and buy all the equipment.

In the first start it can however be a little challange with money. Especially if one gets a few defeats against looters. And one don´t find any looters to attack after.

I do find the medicine to be a worse problems. Needs to be nerfed like 90%.

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My problems with money are mainly due to me having expensive tastes. I like spending it, and boy does this game give you the opportunity to spend it all.

Between spending 4 to11 million to peaceably take a town, 1 to 2 million for a castle, and at least half a million to bribe a lord to join my kingdom... My last play through I never felt like I had enough money and when I finished and I had less than a million in cash.

conleyc86 said:

Once a kingdom no longer has fiefs they have no shot at gaining one again. Having them mindlessly raid is neither fun nor realistic.

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This is very true. In my current playthrough, in the newest patch, I bought my first city from the sultan of the Aserai (only for 4 or 6 million... I expected more from previous playthroughs) and then took out his kingdom first. I have now conquered the entire map except for 1 Sturgian city, and all of the other kingdoms have ceased to exist except for the Aserai (I assume this is because the sultan still has a ton of $$$ in his coffers... that are being dragged behind a horse somewhere as he is fiefless). They have been doing the same old behavior from the last patch during this whole playthrough and it adds nothing.

I have literally just ignored them completely and it has made no difference. They burned some villages around my capital, Sanala, a couple of times... and... that is it . They could not so much as capture one of my lords even once over the span of 10 in-game years, let alone a fief. Their tiny little 20-member warbands could evade any of my lords that thought about chasing them, so they really are basically just advanced bandits that don't get called bandits. Please don't bring this back. It is still in the game more than I would like it to be.

If you want to make it possible that half (or more) of my Aserai lords want to revolt and work for him again, neat. That could make sense. Civil wars and claimants would be the ideal anti-snowball mechanic. But going backwards to bad mechanics is just a silly idea.

Ok, I have seen several crowned helms recently that had decent defense stats and looked cool (defense in the 40s or high 40s I think). Did I miss these in earlier playthroughs or were they added in the latest patch??

Either way, great job devs ! I keep delaying my first use of mods because I keep finding more great things in the base game .

(I am delaying the use of mods as long as possible. Once I started using them in Warband, there was no returning to vanilla . I clocked a good 4000+ hours using the mods in Warband over the years, according to Steam , and that is not counting official mods that were separately run programs, like Fire and Sword)

Totalgarbage said:

enable lone clans forming new kingdoms.

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Or at least be able to count as a "rebelling" 1-city minor kingdom thing like we currently have. I like a lot of the ideas you suggest, but a lot of them seem like pretty big changes that need to be left to modders . I enjoyed warband mods like Pendor and Perisno that allowed the player to create new kingdoms with new cultures that were for the most part unrepresented beforehand.

I have the same missing beard (and one that is two slots later?) on my PC version (through Steam).