They can be improved by:Īs soon as the game starts, you will be attacked by a bandit. The higher the value, the more damage you do and, in case of ranged weapons, how accurate you are. Proficiencies: These points determine how good you are at using certain types of weapons. The increased morale also help to stick them together A must for later on, when you start getting into 2k gold per week (even more) just to keep your armies. Leadership: Increases the max size of your army +5 and it reduces the upkeep of your armies.
Also useful to keep lords as prisoners (it lowers the chance of them escaping) Prisoner Management: While using a blunt (B) weapon, you can knock out enemies, which can be sold for money at a ransom broker. Inventory Management: The +6 inventory slots are going to be useful to loot enemies and keep supplies for your army Every day, every troop / companion that is lower level than you will gain experience, based on level difference and training skill Trainer: This skill is useless until you have higher levels. Useful to take down a good bunch of soldiers while keeping the high mobility a horse provides Horse Archery (Optional): With a high level of Horse Archery you can retain a perfect aim while riding at top speed. At least 4 would be needed to ride a charger Riding: Unless you plan to play as infantry, having a high riding skill allows you to ride armored horses and improve your riding speed. Shield skill + a steel shield means that you pretty much can't be hit from the front
Shield (Optional): I do recommend the use of shields during the levelling and gearing, but in th end it comes down to you if you want to keep a 1-handed + shield or a 2-handed.
Weapon Master: This not only allows you to spend more proficiency points in the weapons you choose, but help you to improve your skills with weapons faster by using them in combat Note that you can only benefit from a max of 3 skills higher than the Power Draw requierement in terms of damage (If you have a Hunting Bow, your damage output is increased by a max of Power Draw 3, even you have more). This is also requiered to use the best bows available. Once you get the hang of it, you can get an insane amount of kills (especially during sieges). Power Draw: Bows, while they might look bad, are by far the deadliest weapon in the game. This will help you to do the maximum amount of damage per swing Sooner or later you're going to rely on fighting at melee.
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This is even more important at full damage, where those HP points might be the difference between life and death Ironflesh: While 2 HP might look a bad deak foir a skillpoint, it increases your hp per 3 points of STR by 66% (3 from STR + 2 from skill). Leadership: These skills only apply to the leader of an army (such as yourself) If more than one has the same skill, the highest skill is chosen Party: These skills apply to your entire army. Personal skills: They are only applied to the character To develop a skill, it's current level must be lower than 1/3 of it's primary attribute, rounded down (i.e i can't get Ironflesh 4 if i don't have a STR of at least 12)Īlso, note that are 3 types of skills: Personal, Party and Leadership Skills: Skills give a major boost to your character in pretty much any field you want. +1 AGI = +5 Proficiencies points and minor speed increase Note that are 3 different stats showed here: Attributes, Skills and ProficienciesĪttributes: Attributes give a minor boost to your character You gain 1 point per level: After that, you'll get to the Character Stats screen. After you finished selecting your background, you'll be able to customize your character.