If you get a peace offer from a faction ACCEPT IT. Award each a fief, they will start to build armies and this gives you resilience if another factions declares war against you. When the lords come to your court, recruit the best ones. Put all efforts into taking as many castles from the weakened faction as possible. You need no more than 3 lords initially and I would wait until you have at least 1 fief to give them each or they will get unhappy quickly. They will approve due to your common enemy. Once you have taken your first castle, generate a court with a follower, then send an emissary to your previous vassal, seeking favour. Look up my channel Krushner20 on YouTube if your interested***
MOUNT AND BLADE WARBAND FREE A VASSAL HOW TO
***I have made a guide about sieges, how to minimalise your losses whilst maximising your kills.
If they are at war with your previous vassals then this will gain you a common interest and they are less likely to declare war on you. Choose your time to strike, then renounce your allegiance to your king, hopefully if you have a high relationship with him you will still hold a decent-ish relationship. In my game it was the Swadians who started to lose territory as a result of warring with the Nords for which I was a vassal. I would advise waiting for an opportunity to arise. Once you have an army of around 100 of which most are elite troops, then you are ready to take your first castle. It will raise very slowly initially until you start to amass vast amounts of renown. Right to rule is another key factor in how other factions perceive you. When you capture enemy lords always release them initially to gain honour. Concentrate on getting your party limit to 100 with a high ratio of elite troops. Renown grants you fame but more importantly it increases your party limit. This will allow you to take part in battles with allies and build your renown. Once you have repeated the above processes for a significant amount of time and levelled sufficiently, it’s time to become a vassal. All other skills are pretty much none essential but if you want my advice, trainer is useful for levelling recruits, path finding for your party travel speed. Put points into leadership to increase your party size limit, iron flesh and power strike to make your character tough enough to make a difference in battle. Every point into intelligence give you an extra skill point to spend which is crucial early game. I would concentrate on having at least 9 strength and agility initially then split your attributes between intelligence and charisma. When your character starts to get stronger, join tournaments, bet on yourself on every round of your confident and you can make 2600 denars each time, and level up your skills some more. Here you can join a last man standing contest and level up your fighting skills rapidly for pretty much free and make small amount of money if you do well. In between doing this, slowly build relations with your chosen factions lords by doing tasks.Īlso essential early game is the fighting arena in any town. It’s worth visiting village centres and speaking to the elders to see if you can help them with tasks as if you can build a relationship with them they will give you higher numbers of recruits and often better quality ones. Then concentrate on recruiting volunteers from villages whilst levelling up yourself and your character. If used correctly, they can batter an approaching line of enemies with brutal missiles before cutting through a horde like butter with the right control. My reasoning for this being they are by far the strongest infantry unit in the game. I chose exclusively Nord for the first half of my game, and concentrated on getting as many huscarls as possible. First decision to make is what you want the make up of your army to be.
I did this on my first attempt becoming a vassal of the birds initially. In general information on obtaining this is fairly scant.
The one solution already here I feel isn’t deep enough, I certainly could have done with more information prior to my attempt. I have just obtained this achievement and decided I would write an in depth guide.