mount and blade warband companions guide

It is very satisfying to improve both my own skill as well as my character's stat based skill so that the fights just keep feeling better. It's enough to keep me busy for a good long while and I happen to really enjoy the combat. Keep a small party size early and have some ranks in pathfinding + spotting (pref on a companion like Borcha or Deshavi) and cruise around the map for a while, picking easy fights, trading, taking in the sights, questing, tourneys, etc in order to gain some exp & equip before just grabbing a bunch of peasants and throwing them at bandits. I'll fire up a new campaign and my checklist usually follows as: gather companions, win tourneys, grind sea raiders, get rich, buy enterprises, court ladies, become vassal, grind fights, friend some lords, get married, start my own kingdom, capture a cluster of towns, throw some feasts, get bored.

M&B is so open ended everyone has their own way to enjoy it but I think a common thread is to have some goals, something to work toward and something again after that and so on.

Mount and blade warband companions guide