How to be a successful viking conqueror? Please help!

[Jellyfish_sammich]

I've noticed now in 2.05 you can make caravans pay the toll and then attack them anyway XD.

 

[kaiser]

You can make them pay a toll first, usually 800-1000 gold, then attack them again to plunder 

Strange, I get 4000-5000 gold per toll. It's usually way more profitable than attacking them.  ^^

I wonder if the toll is leveled somehow, because i've never got anything more than 600 from a 60+ member caravan.

Yep I'm getting about the same.

I think it has something to do with your renown and persuasion skill level, maybe some other factors.

My persuasion is at 5 and renown is roughly 1000, no more than 20 points lower than that.

 

[JuJu70]

toll depends on your party strength, so if you attack a caravan with 1000 men you'll get crapload of money. It's native code, but we can probably cap it.

 

[kwbudirt]

toll depends on your party strength, so if you attack a caravan with 1000 men you'll get crapload of money. It's native code, but we can probably cap it.

Please, please don't cap.

 

[Bob Gnarly]

toll depends on your party strength, so if you attack a caravan with 1000 men you'll get crapload of money. It's native code, but we can probably cap it.

Ahhh thank you for clearing that up

 

[ThorsHammer]

Yeah I noticed that too, raiding caravans is more profitable than plundering villages.  More fun too since they have better troops defending them.

Im probably a bit late on this but;

My favourite tweak http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,323613.msg7944680.html#msg7944680
From the god of tweaks 
Seriously go on the tweak thread Kraggrim has made loads.

 

[Lord Doom]

Keep your party small(ish) but elite for the early-to-mid game, to avoid angry lords coming after you for burning down their villages and taking their prized butter.

I find Svear Warriors to be an excellent force of mercenaries.

I agree, Svears and Veterans are the best value of the mead hall dudes (high chance of chainmail at reasonable pay rates).

Faction specific equivalents have a bit cheaper salary, but you either have to free them, train them up or recruit from your prisoners.

 

[Tiera]

Does anyone know how to tweak the amount of money you can get from raiding a monastery in reforged edition? It seems the tweaks posted by Kalarhan don't work in 2.005. A slightly bigger loot would make looting monasteries a lot more tempting.

 

[kalarhan]

Does anyone know how to tweak the amount of money you can get from raiding a monastery in reforged edition? It seems the tweaks posted by Kalarhan don't work in 2.005. A slightly bigger loot would make looting monasteries a lot more tempting.

1) Tweaks you should ask on the.. Tweaks thread! 

2) It works (it uses regex...)

 

[kwbudirt]

1) Tweaks you should ask on the.. Tweaks thread! 

2) It works (it uses regex...)

But, we'd just rather post a question. It's easier than searching, reading, and figuring things out. I mean, really. 

 

[Tiera]

Does anyone know how to tweak the amount of money you can get from raiding a monastery in reforged edition? It seems the tweaks posted by Kalarhan don't work in 2.005. A slightly bigger loot would make looting monasteries a lot more tempting.

1) Tweaks you should ask on the.. Tweaks thread! 

2) It works (it uses regex...)

1) I know but it's not such a major thing and I thought it relates to my topic so perhaps someone reading this can also answer this question.

2) I feel myself really stupid now but I don't understand how. The text in my menus.txt is totally different than in the one on the tweaks thread. Or do I need to add it? I'm really sorry I'm being such an idiot, but I don't understand regex. I know it's probably not that hard but after long days at the university all my brain power is exhausted

But, we'd just rather post a question. It's easier than searching, reading, and figuring things out. I mean, really. 

Really, especially since people on this forum seem so helpful. You can always ask, right?

 

[kalarhan]

I don't understand regex

http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Regular_Expressions

 

[Bob Gnarly]

Yeah I noticed that too, raiding caravans is more profitable than plundering villages.  More fun too since they have better troops defending them.

Im probably a bit late on this but;

My favourite tweak http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,323613.msg7944680.html#msg7944680
From the god of tweaks 
Seriously go on the tweak thread Kraggrim has made loads.

Hehe that is a good tweak indeed, I recommend it as well.  I've been using it for the passed few days, slaughtering poor defenseless farmers gets stale after a while.