I just fill up my roster with prisoners and recruit as needed from the stockade. The morale of troop types that belong to a kingdom currently at war with you will be inherently lower but, again, not usually a big deal. While recruiting prisoners lowers your unit’s morale a bit it’s not a big deal if you’re fighting winning battle after winning battle. I find having space for capturing troops is handy for replenishing my forces on campaign. Plus you can ransom captured Nobles or even Kings for a pretty penny or just sell them to your own liege, if you have one, for a bit less. You’ll see all kinds of enemy forces you can pick off along the way and they usually have good loot. Find out where the Marshal of the realm is and go fight alongside him. The best money for me is just going on campaign. I find the downside of raiding villages is that some of my best NPCs don’t much like it. Now excuse me, I have 19 pages to read to find out how awesome this is before purchasing what seems to be awesomeness incarnate. But holy shit that sounds fucking awesome!! You should work for their PR team, because casually talking about pillaging and raping towns gave me a massive game-boner. I saw it on steam shrugged it off as a wonky eastern european game. Investing one point isn’t bad but more than that is counterproductive IMO.

One skillpoint for five prisoners will give you 250 denars and frankly I value my skillpoints higher than that.

Selling slaves is actually a horrible way to earn money, atleast in Native M&B and M&B Warband because it only pays a flat 50 denars per head and you need to spend skill points to be able to capture prisoners. If you bet on yourself at every step in the tournament and win you’ll walk away with 4000 denars. If you don’t have any inventory space left after stealing all the village’s goods you can just drive the herd to the closest town, sell your crap, then butcher all the cows.Īnother good way to earn money is to bet on yourself in tournaments, though that is chancy since there are a lot of ways to get yourself knocked out. If you want to provoke bad relations so you are able to plunder villages then the best way is to attack caravans from that faction as they are generally poorly guarded.ĭon’t forget you can steal cattle too. You can also plunder and raze villages for a ton of loot provided you have bad enough relations with the faction, but this has a slightly higher risk of provoking a peasant uprising and the village will hate you forever and ever so don’t do this if you ever plan on recruiting from there. Showing up with a band of troops and demanding supplies is a low-risk high-reward move that can potentially net you very valuable goods and only pisses of the village and it’s immediate landlord. For serious money the best way is to get a band of troops together and then start plundering villages.

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