A new kingdom - and some other minor questions

[razgon]

Hi,
please bear with me - Ive been playing this game since...well, when you had to pay 7 seven dollars for the first beta version, and bought every expansion, but man, I'm clueless as to a lot of the later game mechanics, and some other stuff as well.

Here goes:

I've recently started my own kingdom - I selected Empire as culture, but afterwards I wasnt sure if I could have selected Pendor? I mean, it would make more sense to have a Pendor culture, and get the Pendor training tree, right? It is at all possible to do so?

Now, how to expand - I own a castle and a village, and am on fine relations with all kingdoms it seems, except for Empire. Would it make more sense to fight the kingdom I used to serve, since I have friends there, and that should make it easier to recruit them?

And lastly - I simply don't understand the Speed and Weapon reach statistics - Higher W reach means its longer right? But should speed rating be high or low?

Thanks for any answers, and THANKS for making Pop - simply awesome mod!

 

[Shingen]

The PoP Wiki should cover most of your queries.

http://popmod.wetpaint.com/

 

[Donkerman]

Hi,
please bear with me - Ive been playing this game since...well, when you had to pay 7 seven dollars for the first beta version, and bought every expansion, but man, I'm clueless as to a lot of the later game mechanics, and some other stuff as well.

Here goes:

I've recently started my own kingdom - I selected Empire as culture, but afterwards I wasnt sure if I could have selected Pendor? I mean, it would make more sense to have a Pendor culture, and get the Pendor training tree, right? It is at all possible to do so?

Now, how to expand - I own a castle and a village, and am on fine relations with all kingdoms it seems, except for Empire. Would it make more sense to fight the kingdom I used to serve, since I have friends there, and that should make it easier to recruit them?

And lastly - I simply don't understand the Speed and Weapon reach statistics - Higher W reach means its longer right? But should speed rating be high or low?

Thanks for any answers, and THANKS for making Pop - simply awesome mod!

To answer some of your questions:

The Pendor culture has more versatile and ultimately more powerful honor troops than the other cultures, so is probably the best choice. Unfortuantely you cant undo your choice now. Either reload a previous save or... you know.

Theres a lot of factors that determine which faction to challenge:
Is it a weak faction?
Or a faction at war with many?
Or maybe like in your case a faction with potential vassals?
Maybe a faction with a fief you desire (with a certain chapter)?
You will have to weigh up all these and decide which direction you want to take.

And lastly speed is good. You will find that shorter weapons are faster (obviously) so find a tradeoff between the two and select your weapon. I prefer longer blades when on horseback, and always go for the balanced ones as they have better speed.