Seeking advance for first fief and tips on successfully maintaining a city. BANNERLORD. TLDR at the bottom.

I’ll try to make this as simple as possible and give the crucial details.

For a good period of time in the beginning of this save for me I’ve served as a mercenary for the empire. Farmed my skills to satisfaction, raised a decent party, recruited my brother Nogund and joined up with the South Empire to wipe out the Western Empire and preventing the tidal wave of Khuzait from sweeping over the the middle of the map.

Currently western empire is the only faction we are at war with and only owns about 2 cities so they are well contained at this point and little more than a nuisance. They do want the city back so they keep sending patrols to harass the surrounding villages of Jalmarys.

The first and only fief given to me was Jalmarys. I haven’t really touched it other than putting the occasional soldiers in the Garrison (about 130 soldiers right now), prisoners in the dungeon, and selling the loot from battles. I am stumped on where to start with getting the hang of the city dynamics (raising loyalty, security, food, and prosperity). If anyone has feedback on which improvements to prioritize or tips of maintaining fiefs in an efficient manner it would be much appreciated. I have money thanks to smithing and being a merc but I’m hemorrhaging money right now and I can’t imagine owning a few more cities with this kind of consistent loss, or even being able to keep cities from rebelling due to my poor management of them.

I was hesitant to join a kingdom because the thought of keeping up with the politics and fighting back-and-forth over the same territories didn’t seem immediately appealing, in the beginning I just wanted to ride around and have a no strings attached agreement with kingdoms as a mercenary. Now that I’m curious about conquering the map and wiping out other factions it seems my only obstacle is my own lack of understanding of the city management feature of the game.

TLDR: I am stumped on where to start with getting the hang of the city dynamics (raising loyalty, security, food, and prosperity). If anyone has feedback on which improvements to prioritize or tips of maintaining cities in an efficient manner it would be much appreciated.

Submitted January 27, 2021 at 05:05PM by dirtycheeto69 https://ift.tt/2MqfY8x