A short "guide" for Prophesy of Pendor.

PoP is no doubt one of the hardcore mods if not the the most difficult mods for M&B Warband, but that doesn't mean you can make it the game a "little" bit easier for a not so hardcore m&b warband gamer.

1. Import and export player (and companion) character. There's a way for you to edit your character characteristic by clicking the import button on the your Character window, go to document m&b warband character, and you see a document with a title of your character name. You can edit the document to make your character from lvl 1 with lower stats, to lvl 1 with maximum stats, 63 Strength, Agility, Charisma and Intelligent, 10 to all skills, 699 proficiency, (maximum proficiency is interesting enough kinda almost useless but why not), making yourself a 1 Man Army but still not OP enough to singlehandlely unite Pendor, this of course includes your companion, I haven't try with Vassal character tho.

2. Edit Kingdom of Pendor troops characteristic and equipment with Morgh Editor. This one takes a whole day if you delete all of their equipments and add their new equipment and to rewrite their skills, attribute and proficiency. So it I'm gonna share my edit later on if anyone is interested. It's a bit messy but much more stronger and more nicer to look at. Their armor are the old Pendor armor, Heavy Plate for "Pendor Heavy Shocktroop"(7th tier spearmen unit if you count farmer in pendor troop tree but really it's 6th tier), Harness for "Pendor Fortress Guardian"(bladesmen unit), Ornate for Pendor Iron Lancer"(mounted men at arm unit), Knight for both Pendor Knight and Pendor Foot Knight(noble unit), Pendor Lamellar Armor for "Pendor Grandmaster Ranger"(pendor black archer unit). As for the "Pendor Master Ranger"(7th tier bowmen unit), I just give them scale armor, give a bit more armor but they don't have the skill like the noble archer unit do. I dislike how they create all of those Pendor equipment and equip them to some damn Rogue Blackheart Knight... like wtf. I understand they suppose to be easy to train and maintain but come on... Also they are not too powerful, their total attributes, skill and proficieny pretty much depend on their level, so lvl 36, top/7th tier elite unit, Pendor Fortress Guardian will have 36 total attribute (to their Strength and Agility, depend on their class) plus 12 from their base character, 36 total of skill point, and 360 proficiency of their specific weapon. It's a pain in the arse to edit if I have to redownload PoP again, so I have to copy paste in the Internet somewhere. So go look below in the comment section.

I believe this is the only tips I can give to chnage PoP a little bit easier. Also I DO NOT recommend editing companion attribute into 63 Strength and Agility, because if you were to sent them to train your own Knight Order, your Knight and Sergeant will become tooo OP, making the game way too easy, same goes decreasing the amount of time to change their equipment, having your own Noldor Twilight Knight and Sergeant in just several month is waaaay too fast.

Now the real legit tips and trick for PoP.

1. Experience PoP will know this. During the early game, when you still haven't an access to a garrison (castle or town fief, or stronghold to put your soldier in), ONLY have calvary unit in your army/warband, foot unit will slow you down. Hard.

2. Only have Adventure unit, and almost all type of Mercenaries Calvary unit in your warband/army, from the obvious Mercenary Calvary (in Prophesy of Pendor, they are actually pretty strong, worth the money but still bloody expensive to maintain), to Veccavia Knight, to Barclay Imperial Lancier, to Melitine Gwribanar, to Hero Adventure, to Heroine Adventure. Actually that's just it. You could also hire the Jatu Outcast into becoming Jatu Battle Rider, but in my experience, they are hard to train but I'm still not 100% sure, I hardly never ever recruit them in Tavern. But what I am 100% sure is that training Maiden Calvary into Maiden Adventurer into Heroine Adventurer is several time more (extremely) harder to upgrade than to train young noble adventurer into Hero Adventure. It's a cons of them able to train from a mere peasent women unlike Hero Adventure that must train from rogue young Nobles despite. Heroine Adventurer is a little bit stronger (in skills) than Hero Adventurer. But nevertheless, Maiden Calvary are force to be reckon with, but I still recommend you to train a peasent women into Veccavia Knight instead of Heroine Adventurer, regardless if you have 10 trainers with high level (which need to be effective, so a lvl 1 character with 10 trainer is almost always useless compare a lvl 40 character with 10 trainer). There are of course other Calvary unit you should keep an eye for for you to recruit or rescue, such as Rogue Blackheart Knight, Doomguide from Favourite Seer (but also extremely hard to train), Knighthood Order Knight (with an actually mount) are no brainer, and so on and on. As for the other Kingdom commmon calvary unit, no doubt the D'Shar or/and Sarleon top tier calvary unit are the strongest calvary non-noble/mercenary unit in the game, that is if you didn't have edit Pendor Calvary unit into Pendor Iron Lancer. As for Ravenstern Horsemen, they seem to be a easy to train disposable calvary unit, that's include Empire Calvary, except it failed (on purpose) to become a decent Calvary unit compare to other Kingdom calvary troop.

3. The best "quick" way to estimate a unit strength is their weapon proficiency.

4. Instantly become any Kingdom mercenary in Day 1. I don't know if many people realize this but if you got yourself a Mercenary contract, all of you relationship with hostile Kingdom (because of your character creation, true pendor royal blood etc) will become Neutral, but most important of all you the Kingdom will pay for your troops wage, regardless of how expensive it is, so you don't need to become someone vassal to seek protection. In fact comparing the benefit of becoming a vassal in exchange of babysitting the most neglected village of all Pendor with the Kingdom paying for your troops wages, the benefit gap is massively huge depending how expensive your troops are. Which is why I highly recommend you to recruit in tips 2, and train them into becoming a top tier Calvary mercenaries unit (despite their bloodly expensive wage) which is why many m&b fans discourage other from having too many of them inside your party or garrison fief, unless the Kingdom will pay your troops wage becayse of the Mercenary contract... which they don't tell or also don't know.

5. Buy an enterprise in all 18 city all across Pendor. Yes, you can, and yes you should, and yes, it's worth the trouble. The main profit of PoP Enterprise are different compare to Native, instead of solely Velvet Weavery, they are Tannery, (and of course) Velvet Weavery, those two will promise you a good somewhere 400 denars and above of profit, and other are Wools but sometimes gave a loss but kinda rare but most of time, they give good profit but no promise unlike velvet and tannery in my experience, especially how cheap it is to build so it won't be long for you to get your money back compare to 10k of denars to build velvet weavery or 13k lf denar for tannery. There are time (and specific city) where Bakery can give a good 400 denars of profit, but I have no experience of owning them, but those 3 type of enterprise will be your best bet. Also they are great way to cover your warband wages, because sometimes the mercenary payment from the Kingdom you have contract with is not enough, dunno why (but most of the the time, it's enough), possibly because you have to pay all of your unit wages but the Kingdom will only pay the wages that your unit that are healthy enough to go to the battlefield.

6. If you have high loot skill, you should be able to get 100k of denars in no time. So don't be stingy and use them to buy top tier equipment for your companion. I recommend to buy any Ebony 1 handed weapon you can find in the weapon shop, Hornbow and Hawkstorm are strongest bow you can find in Pendor other than Noldor Composite Bow. As for their armor, I just dress them depending their story/character. Eventide Harness Armor for Alistar, Barclay Plate Donavan, Menteinheim Plate Armor for Freddick and so on and on. It's pretty.

7. Once you got yourself 100k of denars, best for you to buy yourself big pouch of diamond and store them in Valonbroy/Rane hidden chest or enterprise inventory. The former is more recommend.

8. Once you reach mid to late game where you gonna start your own Kingdom, after sending all of your companion to spread your name as a rightful King, use your several hundred of elite calvary yet expensive mercenaries to defeat the Kingdom vassal that you have wage war because you stole several of their fief, release the good lords, but capture the Martial lord and below and put them into your dungeon. Say yes for ransom to Martial Lord but no to Lord with lack of trust, not worth maintaining relation.

I think this is it. I might edit in the future. Good luck conquering Pendor.

Submitted January 21, 2019 at 12:26AM by apache4life http://bit.ly/2RRyxDR