10 Tips to Make You a Master at Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Tips and Tricks for Beginners

• When you start a new game, check your civilian outfit, you will usually have another weapon and some clothes that can net you a few extra hundred denars right at the start.

• Mules and sumpter horses provide you with the most inventory space with +100 capacity. The best place to get them is in the Khuzait and Aserai regions, usually 50% the price of the other regions.

• As time goes on in the playthrough, visit villages on the outskirts of the map and ones that are far from towns, these will be visited less by lords and will have high-value troops that have not been recruited for a while.

• Villages connected to castles will yield better troops as time goes on because castle-connected villages have a daily passive power gain for nobles. Once a noble reaches 200 power, they provide elite troops that you can recruit.

• When it comes to raiding villages, look for the ones with a horse icon, they are the most profitable because you have a random chance to either receive a mule or a war horse. These horses can be sold for a good profit, used for upgrades, or used for their map speed and inventory capacity.

• Horses make you faster on the map. Too little or too much horses will slow you down; the perfect number is the exact number of troops you have without horses. So if you have a party of 100 troops and 20 are horsemen, and the rest 80 are infantry and archers, the best number of horses to have is 80. This will speed you up because the infantry and archers will use the horses to travel the map.

• Always have parties roaming the map for you. Get companions as soon as possible and send them out with just themselves in their own parties. They will get their units up very quick; they will fight and sell prisoners and send you excess profits. Also, they will go from town and villages and give you reputation with locals and nobles. Also, this comes with a startup cost that the companion will automatically take from you for the first couple of days and if he or she needs to build up after taking a large number of casualties in a battle.

• The Tavern Maid in any town gives a small morale boost to your party for 1000 denars. To do this, visit a tavern and talk to the tavern maid. Agree to the food that she offers, and then once out of dialogue, talk to her again, and she will ask if you wish to pay 1000 denars to feed your party. This will give you a temporary morale boost that decays over time.

• Two stewardship perks allow you to exchange weapons and armors for troop experience. This is done by discarding your weapons and armors, either after a fight or when you are traveling around Calradia.

• The first perk is called Paid in Promise and can be chosen at level 100, and the other perk is called Giving Hands which can be chosen at level 125. Paid in Promise Perk gives you experience for discarded armors, and Giving Hands Perk gives you experience for discarded weapons.

• You can stack arrows on your character and go into battles with 100+ arrows. All you have to do is equip the bow in one weapon slot and 3 quivers in the rest. When it comes to sieges, this is great because you can snipe a significant amount of archers on the enemy walls and reduce your casualties by a lot. This can also be done with throwables like harpoons, throwing knives and etc.

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