The Ultimate Bannerlord Beginner's Guide!

The full release on Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord is finally here! By watching this video, you'll cut 10s of hours off of the learning curve and save yourself tons of frustration.

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0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Campaign Mode or Sandbox Mode?
1:53 - Top 3 Cultures To Pick (And Which 3 To Avoid)
4:43 - Character Build Basics
7:09 - Party Roles
8:54 - Encyclopedia, filters, Best Companions & Spouses
11:07 - Renown & Why It's So Important
12:37 - Campaign Movement Speed: All Buffs & Debuffs In The Game
15:53 - Party Size & How To Grow It
17:11 - Combat Tips For Beginners: Melee on Foot Or Mounted, Ranged on Foot or Mounted
19:37 - How To Not Go Bankrupt: 7 Ways To Earn Money In Bannerlord

[ricwalker]

Do i need a beginners guide? No. Do i watch Strats Guide the moment it appeared? HELL YES!

I would add to the guide the recommendation to go to any empire town and talk to the arena manager until he lets you into the practice fights. savest way and arenas to learn combat and easiest to be the last men standing. and that gives 250 Gold. you also get some levels in your skills without any repercussions. Heck, i do 4 to 5 every time i start a new game to double my starting money and enable myself for some smithing or the additional arrow stack.

[hexxar]

Me, 1000+ hours into bannerlord:
ahh yes, this strat guide for beginners is literally for me.

[vasto]

Alright after 190 hours of practice I’m finally ready to watch this tutorial.

[Masterchezze]

Months of waiting? It has litterally been a decade.

[j.ackermann]

Small addition:
If you plan to take on a bandit camp, first check the surrounding villages for the "bandit camp near X" quest. They will pay you to clear the camp. Then check the nearest city for the "X(some gang leader) associates captured by bounty hunters" quest. That one will also pay you to clear the bandit camp. You can accept both quests at the same time (you cannot accept the same quest a secound time while the first one is still active) and you will get a lot of money on top of the loot from the camp.

[daapknaap]

12:06 a few weeks ago i found out that if you are the highest on the tournament leaderboard (you can achieve this by having the most wins ), you will also get 1 renown per day as long as you stay number one. This is very useful for passive renown income.

[syltis]

My man put all 5 focus points into video editing. This is fire content.

[Dersu]

A tip for early tournament/trade routes. Walk into any town and head to the arena. Ask the Arena owner if there are any tournaments in nearby towns and they will give you the location of two tournaments. If you travel to one of the towns you will almost always make it in time to participate in that tournament. If you compete in the tournament, repeat the process by asking the local arena owner again and you will get two new towns. By selecting the highlighted town name in the dialogue you can track the towns to find them on the map easier.

Once you have a tournament in mind to compete in, look at the towns between you and the tournament town. Keep these towns in mind when checking trade rumors on various trade goods before heading out. By reinvesting your tournament winnings into trade goods to sell on your way to the next tournament you can secure some quick profits that require almost no risk provided you can maintain a decent travel speed.

Also as your number of tournament wins increases the amount you can earn from betting on yourself decreases. Early on you can make 1k profit per tournament, as you climb the leader board it eventually drops down to a mere 100-200g

[peteredwardcox]

The most important thing I took from this guide is that Strat has spent so long in Calradia that he can beat the game naked and weaponless.

[GGRS]

I respect the amount of work you put in these vids and gathering stats and stuff, what a legend.

[ROT_Misery]

I have over 200 hours in this game and just learned a TON from this video. Incredible video, thank you for this.

[ayochill]

I’m a console player and I’ve been watching tons of your content to get ready for bannerlord, I am so happy to see this video today before I finally get my hands on this game :) thanks homie!

[WarriorWolf]

One thing I realized during testing is that the campaign mode has a big advantage over the sandbox, your brother, if you use the player option to assign points to companions, will be lvl 21 with all the focuses and statuses of that lvl ready to be spent as you wish, making him the perfect support and the player can focus only on combat.

[chrisxd]

The main campaign honestly helped quite a bit in terms of learning combat. I remember the "ah-ha!" moment while practicing archery when I realized I could hold down the trigger button for better accuracy (I was just one tapping it...).

One thing I'd probably add to the guide is switching between perspectives while not on the campaign map. There are a few instances where first person perspective helps immensely - such as mounted melee combat - especially considering swinging low vs. high (I kept swinging high when trying to hit footmen).


Despite this guide being over a year old it's nice to reference, even if you're not a beginner.

[clivedoe]

Option 1: Go to sleep, get some much needed rest after a long night.

Option 2: Stay up with Strat.

[ryanscottnix]

A new guide by one of my all-time favorite YouTubers! Today is a great day!

Thank you, Strat, for all of your work! Also, your use of memes and humor does NOT go unrecognized, and is highly enjoyed and appreciated.

[ryanscottnix]

12:06 OH MY I NEVER KNEW THAT ABOUT THE HELMET

There's so much to learn in this game. I absolutely love it.

[matthewyj]

By far the best Bannerlord channel. A lot of channels tend to capitalize on new updates and information without adding very much additional value, I won't name anyone but I'm sure many of us can think of a few names.

Strat actually goes into the data and explains to us which I appreciate.

[daydreamer]

Dude, I can't believe it. It's unbelievable the effort you put into calculating all this, explaining it in a way that people can understand. I'm 100% sure Talewords didn't care that much. Respect.

[GoldenBoy.]

I adore this channel, your video are really thorough and entertaining to watch. Nowhere on the internet you can find information like these to optimise one's playthrough. I hope you can expand it beyond Bannerlord and include other popular games.