my first game in warband

so I start the game off as a male, son of nobleman, squire trained and looking for revenge in swadia. I do the quest thingy in the beggining and it's going okay. I had watched some begginner guides so I kinda knew how to start the game.

So I'm going around killing bandits and doing quests and the such. out of these one stands out where count Despin asked me to tax his fief Amere and bring him the money, so I do that but for some reason the quest wasn't completing so I told him that I wouldn't be able to do it and he got kinda mad but it's okay. and thus I was just a bloke with like 15 soldiers and 5000d.

at some point I encountered count Klargus (or smth idk) and became a mercenary. now with a (somewhat) steady income I built up my forces (around 25-30 men) and went to join the fight. now at this point Swadia was at war with the Nords, The Khergit Khanate and the Sarranid Sultanate. Problem is I didn't really know how to do combat and I ended up getting defeated more often than not. So my guy was captured around 15 times and escaped every time, then I would start over and build up my forces and get confident and get captured again until basically all the wars ended

during peace time, I went to King Harlaus and became a vassal and he gave me the fief of Ushkuru because of course. as a vassal with a more steady (not) income I built up more forces and by the time a new war started (with the nords) I had enough power to handle myself properly. I also learned how to fight better and also the benefit of joining in in more massive battles.

meanwhile I started getting into courtship relations. I won a tournament in Praven and managed to impress a young Lady who was the ambitious type. I met her once, read her some poetry, all was going fine. in our second meeting however she told me she had been betrothed to Count Despin but she would rather be with me :'(. so I broke our ties and went on with my life. at some point in my journey (probably in another feast coz Swadia) I met count Despin who not so kindly told me to lay off her and also reminded me that I owed him some 5000d so he kinda hated me now. well whatever he's an asshole anyways

by the time the war ended I had hoarded a bunch of cash and equipment and I built an even bigger group (around 50 men). the khanate attacked again and I was doing pretty good. and because I was doing so good, I decided fuck it, let's build a watchtower in Ushkuru. it cost 3000d which was basically half my money but I thought I could afford it. boy was I wrong.

As things were going well I trained my men and made them into a pretty high class group. this is where you might start seeing the problem. Well Ushkuru got raided and I lost all my budget so I started losing around 900d each month. on my last legs I went by hunting down hostiles and selling the loot trying to make enough money to support myself.

what I realised later is that I probably should have bought an enterprise before the watchtower. that way I at least would have been getting more money back.

but anyway that was my first game. I survived ~170 days and went up to vassal with one fief. I think I did pretty good but I don't really know

(in the end I never paid back Count Despin)

Submitted June 14, 2018 at 10:03AM by AlexDaCookie https://ift.tt/2JE214u