Viking Conquest - Complete Guide - Part 1: Early Game. This is a Guide to the Mount & Blade Viking Conquest (VC) mod. I'm assuming that anyone playing VC already has a basic knowledge of Native. Your first ship should be a Karvi or a Snekkja good enough for defend yourself without being extremely expensive.
On the Launcher, select Configuration and then check the 'Enable Cheats' box. The gold cheat only works in the inventory screen, the health cheat only works in battle, the instant kill cheat only works in battle, the see everything on the map cheat only works on the map screen, the AI take over character cheat only works in battle, the add 1000 XP cheat only works in the character screen.
Effect | Code |
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Ctrl + ~ (then type in 'cheatmenu' no ') | Activate Cheat Menu (allows for a multitude of cheats including adding items and improving relations[also some debug features]) |
CTRL+F5 | AI takes over you character in battles |
CTRL+H | Completely heals you |
CTRL+Shift+H | Completely heals your horse |
CTRL+F3 | Damage yourself |
Ctrl + ~ (then type in 'nocheatmenu' no ') | Deactivate Cheat Menu |
Ctrl + space | Fast Forward waiting at map |
CTRL+X | Gives experience to the selected party member |
CTRL+X | Gives you 1000 XP in the character screen |
CTRL+W | Greatly increases all of your weapon proficiencies |
CTRL+X | In the inventory it gives you 1000 Gold |
Ctrl+Alt+F4 | Knock unconscious all enemy troops |
Ctrl+Shift+F4 | Knocks out all enemies zoomed into. (Holding shift and looking at) |
Ctrl+Shift+F6 | Knocks out all of your troops |
Ctrl+F6 | Knocks out one of your troops |
CTRL+F4 | Knocks unconcious an enemy after a number of presses |
CTRL+T | Let's you see everything except hideouts on the World Map |
Ctrl + L | Level Up |
CTRL+Left Click | On the World Map, teleports your party to where you click |
CTRL + F9 | Slow Motion (Press again to turn on or off) |
Ctrl + F11 | Stop the time at battle |
Ctrl + Left Click | Upgrade all available units to that path. |
Contributed By: Scisor50, dezzter, Rafi_fauzan, redtalonn, KarnLionar, supernuke, and Starmoonz.
1. Start the game with any character history choices you want, this person isnt important, or use an old one from a previous save
2. once you are in control open the character sheet and click Statistics in the bottom left
3. Click Export character
4. open 'computer>Local disk>Users>'the name you use'>Documents>mount & blade warband>Characters and open the text file to be edited
5. from here you can edit your gold and character sheet to your every whim, do NOT edit the reserved skills as doing so may cause you game to crash. max skills are 10 attributes are 63 weapon skills can only be increased to 460 in game without cheats.
6. open or start a game with a character with the same name as the super character, open the character sheet and click statistics
7. click IMPORT character
8. enjoy playing a character with nearly limitless money and never needing to level up.
IMPORTANT: this only permits editing the PC, companions, your army, the world of caladria, and strangely your PCs gender are all SET in the game, all you are doing is changing what the hero can do/spend.
Contributed By: ehkowarrior.
Achievement | Description |
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Eat 6 different types food concurrently. | Abundant Feast |
Get either two agility related skills to 5 or one to 7. | Agile Warrior |
Have two of the following skills at a 5; Trainer, Tactics, Leadership, or Persuasion. | Art of War |
Be chosen as marshall. | Autonomous Collective |
Win a battle against a lord or party who previously beat or captured you. | Baron got back |
Defeat 10 enemy parties in the snowy regions of Calradia. | Best served cold |
Finish reading one book through the camping screen. | Book Worm |
Get one of your healing skills to 5. | Bring out your Dead |
Kill 10 enemies with a throwing weapon's secondary function. | Calradian Army Knife |
Make your own faction. | Calradian Tea Party |
(MP) Slay 50 foes with slashing weapons. | Choppy Chop Chop |
Install and play one mod. | Community Service |
As a ruler have 3 vassals. | Concilio Calradi |
Make one of your ranged weapon skills 250. | Dexterous Dastard |
(MP) Win a round of deathmatch mode. | Elite Warrior |
As a female character, become queen of all Calradia. | Empress |
(MP) In any multiplayer mode have more kills than deaths. | Every breath you take |
You and your army have killed or wounded 5,000 enemy troops. | Force of Nature |
Land a shot with a difficulty of 5 while using a throwing weapon. | Gambit |
Cleanse the town of bandits in the opening mission. | Get up Stand up |
As a female character, help a female claimant reclaim her throne. | Girl Power |
(MP) Win a round of team deathmatch mode. | Glorious Mother Faction |
Amass a fortune of 100,000 denars. | Gold Farmer |
Help a lord or party win a fight. | Good Samaritan |
Steal 3 cattle from a single village. | Got Milk? |
Get married. | Happily ever after |
(MP) Kill 100 people with mounted projectiles. | Harassing Horseman |
Get a character to elope. | Heart Breaker |
Harass wondering peasants on the map. | Help Help I'm being Repressed |
Kill or wound at least 500 enemies. | Holy Diver |
Promote one of your followers into a position of power. | I dub thee |
You have completed the following achievements: Mace in yer Face!, Spoil the Charge, Agile Warrior, and This is our land. | Iron Bear |
You have completed the following achievements: Trick Shot, Khaaan!, Agile Warrior, and Harassing Horseman. | Kassai Master |
Kill 75 enemies with horse archery. | Khaaan! |
You have completed the following achievements: Melee Master, Knights of the Round, Every breath you take, I dub thee/Good Samaritan. | King Arthur |
Put a pretender on their rightful throne. | Kingmaker |
Recruit 6 hero characters. | Knights of the Round |
As a female character, give a companion character a great sword. | Lady of the Lake |
(MP) Win one round in battle mode. | Last man standing |
You have completed the following achievements: Abudant Feast, Mace in yer Face!, Sarranidian Nights, and Art of War/Melee Master. | Legendary Rastam |
Face off against 100 enemies using custom battle mode. | Look at the Bones! |
(MP) Kill 25 foes with a blunt weapon. | Mace in yer Face! |
Kill 50 men as a female character. | Man Eater |
As a female character, Capture and sell three NPC lords. | Man Handler |
Assist your faction in conquering Calradia. | Manifest Destiny |
Become the owner of at least 5 fiefs. | Medieval Emlak |
Enter and win a tournament. | Medieval Times |
Make one of your melee weapon skills 250. | Melee Master |
Get either two strength related skills to 5 or one to 7. | Might makes Right |
Visit every major town in Calradia. | Migrating Coconuts |
Have two of the following skills at a 5; Looting, Inventory Management, Trade, or Prisoner Management. | Mind on the Money |
Raise your soldiers' morale from low to excellent. | Morale Leader |
Kill 10 parties of mountain bandits. | Mountain Blade |
Successfully defend a castle. | None Shall Pass |
Have a -50 relation with a lord, village, or faction. | Old dirty scoundrel |
Land a shot with a difficulty of 6 while using a crossbow. | Old school Sniper |
Pick a fight with a lord by insulting him or by challenging him to a duel. | Pugnascious D |
As a female character, make your own faction. | Queen |
Learn 3 poems from tavern bards. | Romantic Warrior |
Be granted your first fief. | Royality Payment |
(MP) Win in Conquest mode. | Ruin the Raid |
Camp in the Sarranid region of the map. | Sarranidian Nights |
As a female character get into a duel with male lord by insulting him. | Sassy! |
(MP) Perform 25 lance kills while mounted. | Shish Kebab |
Sell 5 people to the ransom broker. | Sold into Slavery |
You have completed the following achievements: Might makes Right, The Huscarl, Melee Master/Dexterous Dastard, and Holy Diver/Elite Warrior. | Son of Odin |
(MP) Kill 50 cavalry while on foot, the enemy must be killed while mounted. | Spoil the charge |
You have completed the following achievements: Might Makes Right, Choppy Chop Chop, Glorious Mother Faction, and Old school Sniper. | Svarog the Mighty |
As a female character, raise your renown to 50. | Talk of the town |
Engage in a conversation with a hero character through the party screen. | Talking helps |
Raid 3 caravans and raid 3 villages. | The Bandit |
Rule all of Calradia! | The Golden Throne |
Kill 75 enemies with throwing weapons. | The Holy Hand Grenade |
(MP) Kill 50 foes with throwing axes. | The Huscarl |
Have a 7 in one of the following skills or a 5 in two; Tracking, Path-finding, or Spotting. | The Ranger |
(MP) Your team successfully defended a castle in siege battle mode. | This is our land |
(MP) Kill 25 people with throwing weapons. | Throwing Star |
Land a shot with a difficulty of 10 while using a bow and arrow. | Trick Shot |
Get the engineering skill up to 5. | Trojan Bunny Maker |
As a ruler conquer 10 towns or castles. | Victum Sequens |
Contributed By: Guard Master and th3l3fty.
This is a Guide to the Mount & Blade Viking Conquest (VC) mod. I'm assuming that anyone playing VC already has a basic knowledge of Native.
Character Creation:
In a general sense, character creation in VC follows the same general rules in Native. There are two key differences, however. Firstly, while your starting attributes are much higher, you only gain a new attribute point every five levels. You get your first point at level 6 and will get an additional point at levels 11, 16, 21, and so on. Secondly, you can raise a skill up to half of the value of the relevant attribute rather than the one-third in Native. You will also gain two skill points per level instead of the single point you would receive in Native.
This means that your starting attributes matter much more than they do in Native while your starting skills won't make any difference past a certain level. As such I recommend using this guide to optimize your character.
The most important attribute in VC is charisma. You don't need an absurdly high charisma to be successful but having a reasonable amount will greatly improve your quality of life. You will need to have a big army in this game and that requires persuasion to build and leadership to maintain. I personally would never go under 12.
Strength and agility are more of a toss up. Having a strong combat character is both useful in that you can heavily influence the outcome of a battle and generally makes the game more fun. Strength is better for combat overall but VC differs from Native in that agility builds can also be quite useful. Weapon speed has a higher impact on damage in VC than it does in Native. As a result athletics and weapons mastery will have a very noticeable impact on your damage output, particularly with pierce weapons. It isn't as high as strength, but also allows you to get some top-tier party skills really high. Namely looting and path-finding. I'd say strength is slightly better but it's not your only option. Getting 9 riding and zooming around on a horse is quite fun.
Intelligence is the worst stat but it's still more viable than in Native. It's weighted a little less heavily in character creation meaning that you can get a couple more 'free' points of intelligence than you can of the other stats. Companions still are your best option for all the intelligence based party skills.
At level 13 in VC you will gain a trait which will is essentially an extra ability in battle that you can activate be pressing 'T.' Which trait you get depends on which skill of the four trait determining skills is the highest and they are as follows:
Power Strike: Berserker, you temporarily gain more power strike and athletics after which you will be temporarily exhausted and only inflict half damage.
Ironflesh: Strong, you gain the ability to start a shield taunt in battle. Additionally, your men become harder to wound in battle.
Athletics: Tough, you gain the ability to start a shield taunt in battle. Additionally, your men become faster in battle.
Inspiring: Leadership, you can shout a warcry in battle. Your men fight more fiercely (I'm not sure if this improves moral are makes then do more damage).
Which one is best really comes down to personal preference. I'm inclined to dislike berserker as I think the bonus is overkill so it's a net loss to use it because the drawback is so annoying. Keep in mind that wearing heavy equipment (i.e. mail, helmets, etc.) will reduce athletics and power strike and does have an effect on which trait you get. For example if you had 7 power strike and 8 athletics and wanted tough but you were wearing a scale lorica which reduces athletics more than it does power strike you might end up with berserker instead. This can be avoided by taking off stat reducing gear right before you reach level 13.f
Getting Started:
The goal at the beginning of the game is to only rise through the social hierarchy but to build a solid foundation for your future kingdom. This foundation must be made of money. VC is much more expensive than Native and you will need money to do literally anything and lots of it. The only way to fund your future conquests is with productive enterprises. Breweries in particular serve as the best economic cornerstone. However, you're going to need a 8000 peningas to open one, not to mention the money you'll need for a ship to move around the map and get a party together. As such, your first step will be to get some cannon fodder together to mug some bandits and take their stuff so you can make some money.
I see a lot of people asking how to recruit early in VC so here is a complete list in order of best to worst:
Old Sea Captain: One of these can be found in every port city intuitively right next to the port. You can recruit sailors (tier 2 skirmisher) from him for 40 peningas a piece. Sailors are trash but they're your best and cheapest early option and enough of them will do the job against even mid-tier troops.
Farmstead: These are neutral locations that are spread around the map. You can enter them and talk to the reeve to recruit a random number of farmers (tier 1 skirmisher) for 100 peningas. Farmers are even more trash than sailors but these are a steal price wise and you don't have many options.
Villages: Unlike in Native you have to pay to play to recruit from villages. Depending on the disposition of the village elder this will cost you 400-600 peningas up front. You then have to pay for each individual troop, which will all be tier 1 skirmishers. Only use this if you're desperate.
Freeing and Recruiting Prisoners: This works just like in Native except you have to pay prisoners to recruit them.. and they still might run off. However, you can use the troop quarters feature unique to VC to quarantine them overnight to make sure they stay. Freeing prisoners is cheap AND you can get great troops. The only problem is that it is unreliable (very few parties will have prisoners early in the game) and you already need to have some troops to win the battle.
After you get 150 renown and 5 relation with a lord you can recruit in his castle or town. You will recruit tier 2 spearmen unless you have a high enough relationship with it in which case you can recruit tier 3 infantry or spearmen. You can also recruit troops in mead halls (aka taverns) with 150 renown but it is expensive and most of the troops you can recruit are total trash. I would only consider Svere warriors. Veterans and spearmen are okay if you really need them.
Rainbow six download pc. Keep in mind that in VC moral requires more micromanagement than in Native. Don't let your army get too big or they will start to desert. I don't let my army get over 130 unless I am going to be winning a lot of battles because they become to hard to keep happy. Also, your religion (christian or pagan) affects your troops moral. Christian troops won't like an disreputable pagan commander and vice-versa. For reference:
Pagan Troops:
Norse faction troops
Vikingr
Berserkers
Old Captains
Sea Captains
Svear Warriors
Finnish Archers
Christian Troops
Irish faction troops
British faction troops
Pictish faction troops
Saxon faction troops
Angle faction troops
Troops from the bandit troop tree
Bandit Leaders
Frankish Horsemen
Aquitanian Skirmishers
Neutral Troops:
Troops from the mercenary troop tree (upgrades from farmer)
Female troops
Ulfhedinn (maybe this only applies to the ones that you can get from the random event where they ask to join your party)
Once you have enough men to win fights just hunt bandits and sell their stuff. Get a shield and a one handed weapon for yourself ASAP as they will help you win early fights. If you win a battle against opponents wearing mail I highly recommend taking the 'take first claim on all the loot option' moral penalties be damned as you have a high chance score really good gear early on.
Investing Your Capital:
Once you have a nice stack of peningas saved up you have a few options to start making real money. It all depends on your current situation. You may want to just keep grinding and buy a productive enterprise and keep grinding. However, trading is extremely powerful in VC if you know what to do. The first thing you need to do is make you way to Friese. If you have trash troops you don't care about just disband them. It is much cheaper to travel alone. If you have some decent dudes you can stash them in troop quarters until you need them. Travel across land as much as you can as paying for passage is expensive. Once you get to Friese your trade route should be as follows:
(the number next to each good like so: Wine(800) is a rough estimate as to its average value. Try to sell it close to this number or higher. If you can't get a good deal you might want to peddle it somewhere else)
Buy Jewelry(1000), Wine(800), and Salt(300) in Dorestad.
Travel to Ribe and sell some of what you bought in Dorestad. Don't sell so much that you significantly devalue your product however.
Travel to Tunsberg. Sell some more of what you bought in Dorestad. Buy Tar(450).
Check in the villages around Norway for Iron(500)
Travel around the western coast of England/Scotland. Stop in every village and check for Wool(800). This is how to make BIG money.
Keep an eye out of any random good deals such as Honey(250)
Stop at any towns along the way to sell and of the leftovers from Dorestad as well as what you bought in Norway/Tunsberg if it's at an acceptable price. It's fine to save the Iron and Tar but you should offload everything you bought in Dorestad.
Return to Dorestad and sell ALL the Wool you bought and any leftover Tar and Iron. I normally buy Wool at about 20 (from villages) and sell it at around 800 which gives and insane profit. Best of all Wool doesn't change in value as easily as more expensive goods like Jewelry, it just has an insanely inflated price in Dorestad.
As soon as you can I would buy a ship so you don't have to pay so much for travel. Just continue to do this trade route and open as many productive enterprises as you can. Once you have a stable network you are ready to become a vassal!