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Im new to this series and im loving the way how you play this series keep it up

Pretty bad positionning, but rest assured I can't manage to do any better

Pretty bad positionning, but rest assured I can't manage to do any better

Well, leading the brigands around your flank so that they got to attack your flank going downhill rather than leading them directly into your lines going uphill was indeed an interesting strategy. It worked against the lightly armored brigands, but I don't think that will work nearly as well against the Baron. I believe the other retinue hit the pathfinding bug. This bug tends to happen when there are too many units on the map. Sometimes one or 2 guys from a unit get lost/stuck and so the rest of the unit, once they realize, will go backwards to group up with the lost man instead of going to where you tell them to. I am sure this is one of the things on Greg's list of bugs to fix. Though I haven't seen it in the patch notes yet. I think he is working on the mechanics more than pathfinding right now.

This popped up in time for me to watch before I go to work!

It looks odd that half or more of the people sit on the benches facing away from the fire.

Finally all caught up!

Your original tribal leader lasted for 75 years! quite the accomplishment.

Man, that setting moon looks so good!

Does this game have trade? can traders from other tribes stop at yours, and can you send traders to other tribes?

For that fire place, can you only make single circular firepits, or could you make a longer oval/line shaped one so that the people who sit on those angled shorter benches are still close to the fire?

oh, the detail of painted animals on the skins draped over the tent poles is a nice touch!

@4:55 Could you make that rock into a totem spirit for the settlement?

WOW! I didn't realize the bronze age came to Iberia so late!

the episodes are not in order in the playlist.

Finally getting a chance to follow this series!

This is a well put together clip

First!

Its a teaser for the beard :-P You need to market this clip or noone will see it bro 😀

Good intro to your channel although you did leave out some of your endeavors. I tried Transport Fever 2 using your map and others but it's missing something. For one, I am wanting to stay in the 1800s not do a modern city builder. But the resource placement just doesn't feel right. I have been playing Banished but with the Colonial Charter mod. It really does make it Banished 2. Not sure if I like it or not because I need more help in understanding all the changes, all the new paths, all the possibilities. Am interested in Manor Lords but I am waiting as I anticipate a lot of updates early on and want it to be a bit more stable if it takes me weeks to play it.

If you have a row of burgage plots with the side house, when you upgrade them to lvl3 you get wall to wall housing that looks realy good.

@25:21. Just to the right of the market, there is a little road triangle. It is probaby impossible, but if you could get the forester to plant a tree there... it would look really nice.

definitely an action-packed episode!

Ahh, you got the homeless people bug! You may need to quit and restart to fix that. I believe that happens when a home burns down. If you repair it, the people sometimes refuse to move back into it. That may be why you have homes for everyone, but still have homelessness.

You should barter food into immenrueth with the pack station until the food situation fixes itself. The lack of food is one of the reasons people are leaving the settlement.

Retinue need a minimum of 5 men to be rallied. So if you dismiss that unit with only 3 men, you can't re rally them until you recruit more.

the problems you had rallying your militia is that you cannot rally them in house property, including your fields. Greg has said that this is a bug and in a future patch you will be able to set a rally point in a field.

From my own experiences, 1 farmhouse with 8 families employed can harvest, plow and plant 3 morgan's worth of fields before winter.

@12:07 You uprooted trees to place these fields. While I like the location, you should have waited until the loggers had cleared the area first.

Very cool game and good commentary

28:20 Signals should only be on the *approach* side of junctions, else a train could be stopped across the junction :) Cheers!

You will want to build your treasury quickly so that you can fill out your 2 retinue units, make the next fight easier. It takes 2000 prestige to claim an owned territory, so it should take him a little while.

When you were handing out battle orders to all the units I was thinking, send those retinue after the bandits in the woods as the small numbers of retinue can still wreck the bandits, reduce his total army size and then you can bring them down into the back side of the next unit and wrap his army up one by one, and then you did exactly that! we were simpatico on strategy there!

The polearm militia do extra damage to armored enemies (or at least don't do less damage), so they are better against retinue than spearmen. They were exactly who you wanted to engage the baron's retinue. having those 2 polearm militia probably saved you as they wouldn't get wrecked by his retinue. since you are out of militia units, I would recommend dismissing the archers, and getting a second unit of spearmen and rely on merc's for archers. Right now, the best use of archers is to kite the enemy into a disadvantageous position, like you did, and then to add numbers to a battle where their numbers count against the moral of the enemy, even if they can't damage them.

unfortunately, archers do almost no damage on the release build. once the patch is rolled out, archers will work again. However, they do aid when they are attacking from behind as that affects the moral of enemy units. You won with excellent tactics; Bravo on that!

Don't forget to click on the "resolve on the battlefield" button. Otherwise he will just get to keep it. Once you click on the button to resolve on the battlefield, you will get a big circle designation somewhere on the map, and that is where the battle needs to take place. So if you raise your army, but do not go into the circle, then you will also lose.

With the Apiaries in Immenreuth you could trade the honey to Waldbrand for the gambeson's

The wheat has to be thrashed into grain before it can go to the windmill, but if the granary accepts wheat, then the wheat gets pulled form the farmhouse to the granary, then the farmhouse has to get the wheat back so they can thrash it into grain. Disabling wheat from the granary saves 2 hauling trips by the granary and the farmers. Also check the granary in the town near the market, you don't want wheat and grain getting hauled all the way down there either. The granary near the market should only be flour, so it is a short trip to the communal ovens.

Yes, the retinues count against your base militia total, but you are not limited in how many retinue units you can have. So you can have 1 retinue for every manor you can build in addition to however many militia you end up building. You also goofed in making an archer militia. in the release version archers really don't do any damage at all. the patch will fix that but until then, the archer unit is a waste. Hopefully it gets fixed so that militia and retinue get separated so you can always have 6 militia no matter what order you build your manor houses.

Manor lords freaked you out with good cause. A massive raider group appearing in the first 10 seconds, then razing your village to the ground is traumatizing.

The Wall Bug! The castle planner seems to struggle a bit with redesigns. Unfortunately once something is constructed, you can't do any redesigns with out tearing the entire thing, manor house and all, down.

Each region can only get 6 development points.

That "bush" next to the manor it won't let you delete is a felled tree. You will need the loggers to debranch and haul it away.

Ostriv is how I found your channel, but I stayed for Foundation, Airborne kingdom, and Anno 1800. Whilst I would like to see them again, I am thoroughly enjoying the new content. Vikings is lovely, and this looks soo cool. Manor lords is spectacular! Looking forward to seeing what's next! Cheers 🍻

It would be a good idea to create a storage building that stores exclusively the clay and clay tiles, so that they don't all get dragged to the village, and because you will make a lot of them and you don't want them to choke all the space away from the things you need to store close to your market.

You are capped at 6 total development points per region.

Instead of making the polearms in Immenrueth, since you are already making them in your other region, you could just import them using inter-regional trade. Then you can specialize the regions better. Make something in Immenrueth that you are not making in the other region and trade them back and forth.

It is stone on the image too, but it colored the stone red to indicate you didn't have enough. It is a bit confusing because you expect it to be grey. iron is also grey, the iron ore is orangish color, but that is distinctive too, and of course nothing uses iron ore as a construction resource.

With the 3 farm houses now each covering their own farm plots, it would be a good idea to manually assign the families that work each farmhouse. Because you might find people working at farm houses half way across the region, reducing how much time they have to spend working since they spend to much time walking to work from home and back.

That slope is a good area for the sheep pastures, but a bad place to build burgage plots.. I know I wouldn't want to risk sliding/falling down that slop from my house every day!