Some Guidance please...

[Hodor NOT]

Hi there, I just started playing Bannerlord, and it feels great to once again be roaming Calradia.
That being said, despite having played Warband I am struggling a bit to really take-off in Bannerlord and I would appreciate some tips

I am playing a Vlandian knight character and plan to enter the service of the Southern Empire eventually. (Latinikoi anyone?)
I completed the quest to rebuild my clan and my next step is the Folly of Naratzes quest.
So far I recruited about 40 soldiers and 3 companions. I have been fighting looters and bandits and selling the loot to buy horses and be faster (am I doing this right with the horses? I am buying the cheap ones. Are mules an option?)
Furthermore I am participating in tournaments to make money and improve my gear.

But I feel like I have hit a wall. I cannot recruit more soldiers. Making money is slow. I guess I would need to attack some caravans to make more loot, but I dont want to do that without protection of a faction.
Talking to 10 lords for the quest takes long, I have trouble finding them and then they dont want to talk to me about the quest?
When should I join the faction?
Should I focus on the quest and everything will fall into place?

Any tips are highly appreciated

 

[✪Chewy]

If you want to make your own faction. As soon as you started the game. You should be focusing only on finish the quest. So you get it early before anything gets out of hand.

But if you don't want to make your own faction, And you want to join someone else. I would recommend getting some renown. Going kingdoms as mercenary,tournaments,killing looters,Hideouts.
And as for money. Try to get some workshops going. And for Caravans only get them once you have stable income. Because they take 2 weeks in game time for it to start giving you money.

 

[Matsetes]

Hi there, I just started playing Bannerlord, and it feels great to once again be roaming Calradia.
That being said, despite having played Warband I am struggling a bit to really take-off in Bannerlord and I would appreciate some tips

I am playing a Vlandian knight character and plan to enter the service of the Southern Empire eventually. (Latinikoi anyone?)
I completed the quest to rebuild my clan and my next step is the Folly of Naratzes quest.
So far I recruited about 40 soldiers and 3 companions. I have been fighting looters and bandits and selling the loot to buy horses and be faster (am I doing this right with the horses? I am buying the cheap ones. Are mules an option?)
Furthermore I am participating in tournaments to make money and improve my gear.

But I feel like I have hit a wall. I cannot recruit more soldiers. Making money is slow. I guess I would need to attack some caravans to make more loot, but I dont want to do that without protection of a faction.
Talking to 10 lords for the quest takes long, I have trouble finding them and then they dont want to talk to me about the quest?
When should I join the faction?
Should I focus on the quest and everything will fall into place?

Any tips are highly appreciated

The easiest way is like in the other games: manual trade, you can get lots of money pretty quickly and meanwhile you will see the 10 lords