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Viking Conquest Warrior Start (not for traders)

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2023-05-07 10:10:17

Begin Your Viking Conquest

Start life in the arena. Not for long, 10 or 20 minutes maybe, just enough to raise your weapon proficincies up a bit, and get a few hundred gold.

Make sure to pump your athletics skill. It will be very important in controlling the battlefield in tournaments or early field fights without a horse. It will also dramatically affect your map speed while solo (more than pathfinding I think) if you are dismounted.

Then, two paths:

OPTION 1: TOURNAMENT FIGHTER:

pick a tournament city. Nearby, probably, but also prefer one you suspect of having a feast for the multiple a day.

Then win the tournament. If you lose, arena again to remake bet amounts, but using commands (order all the men to follow you, stay out of 3 or 4 way fights until the other teams are worn down) you should be able to win, barring bad luck. Remember in the initial large teams crazy melee rounds, you just need 1 kill to advance past round 1 if knocked out, 2 to advance past round 2...so have your team absorb them in the front and sneak a kill from behind.

Spear is the bad luck weapon here. Run in a circle and grab something better, or drop your shield and fight two handed with it, if fighting one on one.

Don't put your shield on your back. It weighs a ton in tournaments and having one but not using it kills mobility for no reason. Never have two shields in VC tournament fights.

20% chance of getting a special item for a win. Decent sword, great armor, horse, or cow (butter now and then is nice, but this is the least useful early game). Stumble on a feast or two and you will get a couple special items. A town with a feast is 3-5 tournaments a day.

Since the town owner will be the feast giver, talk to him once a day (avoid talking all the time, let the counter since last talk go above 24 hours), to get 2 bursts of +5 relations. After the first, he will give you permission to recruit in town.

Always check recruits from then on. This is a great way to get starting troops--with good relations with the town you have a shot at tier 3 recruits. If you do some mayor quests that chance goes up. Getting 10+ Norse companions as direct recruits isn't so unusual, and a feast and the accompanying relations makes that possible right away.

BTW, I think the heavy armor penalties to skills from your normal armor might still apply when fighting tournaments, even though you are temporarily naked. So strip off your armor, shield, and helmet before starting.

OPTION 2: STRAIGHT TO HUNTING:

Ask mayors for quests, and particularly look for the looters and troublesome bandits quests, as well as rescues.

Looters can be safely completed with a shield and any axe. Pretty cheap to purchase. Just line them up so their buddies don't sling you in the head while you kill one.

Troublesome bandits or kidnap rescues you can kill with a sling and a couple of large bags of stones. Just shoot their knees out from under their shields, run away a bit, then repeat.

Once you can buy a swaybacked pony, you are pretty much set. Forget the sling, slaughter those footpads directly with an axe, or if available a sword. Small vikingr parties are now fine targets, as are any of the melee bandit line, even large bands.

Just don't pick fights with ruffians/bandits/the whole skirmisher line. Not worth it except for the town quest, as skirmishers won't line up nicely, and will instead fan out and take out your pony.

Note that soloing vikingr longphorts on foot is probably fine at low level (and gives great loot), because the number of enemies is proportional to level. You just need an axe and shield really. 10-15k if it is one with elites and you solo it, and probably a nice sword, armor, and helmet for you to keep and use.

Dunwic is a nice early stop if you have shield and axe. Hit boar grove for an easy 1 on 1 fight with a pretty good mail shirt as a reward, ask the east engle king for quests (or check innkeeper) to see if a longphort is in the area (assuming you didn't already do the quest elsewhere--if you did, no one will offer it for around 30 days, even if a longphort is in the area), then if there is one run up the coast looking for it (not much coast to search, easy to find). The vikingr near dunwic tend to be elite danish--amazing loot from raiding their longphort, and since they are elites there will be less of them to kill.

Keep an eye out for nice masterless men parties. My current character hired 11 member tier 4 Norse elite spearmen band for 3,500 during his 5th day.

If a town mayor offers the "make peace" mission, take it, raider or not. The lords who oppose peace are generally the same as give the "assasinate local merchant" quest. Find them in a town, get that quest (maybe don't take it beforehand if possible so it isn't on a timer to refresh), it will raise your relation with them +20-40 (it is +20 even if you let the merchant live), then ask them to make peace as a favor to you. The second lord will only charge 1.5k, so the mayor's payment will net you a 10,500 profit.

Once you get a horse (heavy modifier preferred) and briton sword (90 reach), you can kill pretty much any heavy infantry band. Here's my guide on fighting large bands as player cavalry in VC: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1226784348&searchtext=Viking+conquest

Once you get a boat, hit the following grounds once in a while, after they have had time to accumulate prisoners:

danish vikingr south of Britain

Swedish and northvegr vikingr between Norway and Scotland

Frankish pirates near dorested and dunwic

Vikingr and raiders in the Irish Sea.

Prisoner rescues will make you flush with top tier units and loot, and you can recruit the elite vikingr you take prisoner.

Finally, let me make a shameles recomendation. Want to make this great game even better?

VC Balance Mod, now at version 4.1:

https://www.nexusmods.com/mountandbladevikingconquest/mods/5

Tons of bugfixes for Vanilla Viking Conquest bugs, balance improvements, a MUCH better berserker mechanic, no more peasant loot crowding out good loot, and many other changes.

Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1286747733

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