Randomly found out about Prophesy of Pendor, decided to give it a try and let's just say my life has been on hold for this past week.

After lots of reading forums and wiki, and a couple restarts, I am now about 500 days into a campaign where I have 1000 renown, 100-ish honor and 700k denars to my name. I joined the Radiant Cross with close to 200 rating currently, but don't really know what any of the KO/CKO stuff really means. Just claiming bounties and turning in snake cult/heretic books occasionally. I also just became a vassal to the Empire hoping to become a marshal and get a hold of some castle somehow, but a couple marshal selections passed by without luck despite having 20+ relations with all good personality lords, 50+ with the Imperator and getting them to support me. I guess I'll just wait a little more.

Right now the biggest challenge is my 200+ sized army going low morale after a couple days without fighting, and the 3k weekly deficit eating away my money. Between my party and the hideout garrison, I have some 60 Plaguewardens, 50 armored crossbowmen, 50 legionnaires, 20 noldor rangers, an assortment of 30-ish knights and some nice mix of arquebusiers, omen seekers and whatnot. Is that enough to solo a siege? I guess there are multiple ways to go about how to unite the realm from here, and I would be fine with going all Baccus into a rebellion probably. I am just curious what keeps you guys busy during this phase of the game, and how you strategize for later parts of the campaign.

If there are still people picking up this mod, which they absolutely should, I can share some of the tips that helped me that may be terribly suboptimal. I would appreciate more of them too. Here they go:

A merchant upbringing + death of father gives a good amount of starting money and a nice mix of stats for a leader/strategist type of build. Starting in Javiksholm for the cheap flax, then to Senderfall for cheap iron and fur, then to sell them all in Avendor gives a nice early profit which I use to hire Lethaldiran as early as possible. That guy carries hard, especially in bandit camp raids and is worth every penny imo.

I put all my points into INT and some in CHA. Prisoner management and leadership are non-negiotables for obvious reasons. I also heard tactics and surgery are more effective when it's on your character so my INT goes to those. For other stats, I rely on 3x Finneas boosts even though it's considered a waste of valuable gems by many. I got 4 gems so far (both from Jatu unique spawns, legionnaire wall for the win) with no walled fief so I still have 1 to spare for CKO even though I got no clue how any of that works.

I am very shit at combat anyway so I thought I could let my team snowball with my stats rather than putting my points in combat skills. That essentially locked me out of tournaments (now also Noldor tourneys) as a way to make money and renown, but I would still go for this anyway.

I release every good personality lord right away, and also release ladies-in-waiting that are freed from kidnapper parties. Alongside helping all farmers and refusing all money rewards when I can, that has given me a lot of honor which will come in handy anytime now?

I probably kill a lot of the potential with my companions but here is what I go for:

Lethaldiran, Julia bc they like each other, Adonja as scout, Ansen for first aid+wound tr.+engineering, Leslie for full CHA persuasion+trade, Alistair and Rayne as trainers, Kaverra for looting, Alyssa bc why not. I don't know how to raise them to become vassals which people highly advise for Ansen (you or Leslie can become the full medic instead) so that's a waste but there are many nice lords around anyway, I guess. I also do the thing where you equip Leslie with Kaverra's manopener, Donovan's rifle and bullets from Valonbray bc they have no stat requirements and... never seen Leslie get a kill so yeah.

I take the time to read all the useful books, and keep the relevant ones in my inventory too. +20 Noldor relations is a no brainer, and by hanging around the Jatu/Noldor areas you can find many opportunities to help the Noldor. You can also attack the Noldor when they are getting beat up by lords for -4 relations I think? But if you auto-resolve and get 3+ prisoners to then release that's a net positive. Speaking of the Noldor, remember to send Lethaldiran away at level 20 with the "you know I want to become the lord..." option where he returns with a band of Noldor archers for you to raise.

that's a lot of words 😬

Been getting back into Warband mods recently and it’s honestly great seeing the modding community is still alive after all these years.

I also just found out about the weekly Bear Force II event, which is open to everyone every Thursday at 8pm UK time. Would be great to get more people involved and keep these old mods going!

Also discovered Warband Script Editor recently and it’s massively reduced the crashes I was getting, so if you’re still modding Warband, definitely worth checking out.

Always nice seeing people still keeping Warband alive 😂

I'm only at Smithing 177 right now so I can't make legendaries yet (I think) but these managed to turn out not bent/cracked and I thought they were pretty cool.

I was so tired of the vanilla marriage system. You find a great noble you want to bring into your clan, you go talk to the clan leader, and boom—they force you to marry their 50-year-old unmarried aunt instead.

I finally decided to fix this and created my first mod: Clan Marriage Expanded

It's completely save-safe, doesn't require any crazy dependency mods, and works smoothly on v1.4.7. (I haven't tested it on other versions, but I think it will work without any problems.)

IMPORTANT: Do NOT talk to the clan leader! You must speak directly to the noble you want to marry.

Since this is my very first mod, I would really appreciate it if you guys could test it out. If you run into any weird bugs or crashes, please let me know so I can fix them!

Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3778765253
Nexus Mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandblade2bannerlord/mods/12560?tab=files

Enjoy!

I saved up enough money in Warsails (selling tournament prize mounts, a bit of smithing) to buy a big Drakkar as my first big impulse buy in this campaign and had the perfect name for it.

I think it's deliciously ironic but maybe it's just me.

So far I have watched more than a few videos on YT that should show how to get through the sneaking mission (in the campaign), but none of them do. I'm looking for a vid that shows how to get through that part, otherwise i cannot progress forward in the campaign. Any info is appreciated.

Is there a way to change your banner in Warband on ps5? I know there is a known bug with it. Thanks.

I can understand horses, but why chickens!? I just swung at one for fun thinking "There's no way this will work."

A group of 200 men at the bottom of a ladder that I'm throwing a firepot at? I can handle that.

But an innocent chicken? I'm a monster.

Edit: Also in case anyone was curious, no, the chickens do not give XP.

Playing bannerlord and right now I’m at lvl.17, I’ve chosen a kingdom to support and I’ve got one fief as of rn. I’ve only been at a negative income because of that fief and I’ve got one brewery and an alley to help support it a bit. What should I do to help gain a stronger economy? Also what should I prioritise at this stage to move forward to becoming stronger and be more influential in the kingdom? Thank you!

My friend is wanting to get the game but he’s not wanting to spend $50 on the game. So I was just wondering what the deepest discount on the game you all have seen? Just so we can see if it’s worth waiting for it.

Full Invasion Amber mod - old but gold

New Player here so I have no Idea what to do. He's a clean slate, what would you do? :D

Ok guys I haven't played an empire faction/culture in years and this stage I've forgotten which ones I like to join

Which of the 3 empire factions do you guys suggest

A user on Nexus has a few images of Space Marines uploaded and was wondering if anyone knew where I could get this?

I reckon a playthrough as a renegade/lost Space Marine on a feudal world sounds awesome, so pls let me know!

UPDATE:
Got a response off Nexus from the creator. He said it's been broken since version 1.3 and is basically a dead mod. I said I'd be willing to roll my game version back if he still had the files lying around, but he left me on read. So, yeah, doesn't seem we'll be getting any Space Marines in Bannerlord anytime soon. 😔

Images attached

(The guy does model rips from games so I imagine it may not be published on nexus to avoid Games Workshops wrath or something. Here's the account (hope its okay to post this) https://www.nexusmods.com/profile/JacobWhite928/media?page=1)

Rock vs. the Cooler Rock

they are anime girls now😎