How To Start A Criminal Empire In Bannerlord

Try clearing out enemy gang alley when your alley is under attack before going to defend your alley enemy gang should call off attack

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What if you own the town you have allies controlled in?

Would it be a good idea to own workshops in a town and then take over the alleys in that town. 🤔 Kind of like the mob

Is there any negatives to doing this in a city you own?

2 of the mods I use that I like that help with this, is diplomacy so I can send messengers and more spouses so I can just marry them and make them alley leaders without losing companion slots, 3 women ones that always work are ones that end with black, long knife and leopardess

Great guide as always, thanks for the hard work. Two more tips I found useful:

-the income from your controlled alleys scales with the prosperity of the town, so make sure to take alleys in prosperous towns and their income can be similarly high as decently running workshops

- If you have companions in your party, you can gather them in the town and have them follow you before you go into an alley takeover fight, which turns the difficulty down from challenging to a total breeze, especially if you and your companions have some decent civilian armor (the brigandine can be a lifesaver here)

- if you have trouble finding companions that have 30 roguery or if you want to make a family member into a rogue, you can train the roguery skill of companions or clan members by delegating the "gang leader needs recruits" town quest to them. The quest text suggest that you'd need an already skilled rogue to do that, but in reality the roguery skill of your companion only determines how many troops they will need to complete the task, the sucess chance and duration is always the same.

Is there any point in clearing alleys in your towns? It gives a bit of relationship with notables but doesn't seem to affect Security or anything else.

Haha! This one beats Judas even. The joker tops it 🤣 in your historical character plays, have you considered Alexios Komnenos? Would be perfect for restoring the empire in decline :)

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In the case you just want to clear it and not occupy alleys, what does it give to the town getting rid of gangs?

very disappointed in the rogue update i was expecting a lot more, then just passive income and some bandit troops, there is almost no use for them inside the game out side out the early to mid game, i was expecting what they promised in the early years of bannerlord, being able to take over settlements and and doing illegal trade.

Jeeez just Ask innkeeper about where you can find thieves companions

The amount of passive income one gets for owning businesses ally and caravans is so trivial and may consume a companion that it seems like a really bad move to bother.

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80 gold? Pfft. Income should have been 5 times more at least for all that hassle.

After a year not playing bannerlord, I just played a campaign to test this feature and it's demoralizing. The income is meh, as usual not comparable with weapon forging, and not even with caravans nor workshops, and that not even taking into account the necessity of very specific kind of companion to run the alley, the roguery level is ok I guess even when you may not run into a single companion with enough skill level for years, and you need one per alley, and even when you find one it may have the mercy trait. I understand that money has to be somehow hard to get by, but what is baffling and annoying is the way Taleworlds, after all this time, manage to cripple every single way of making money except of blacksmithing, which gets very old very quick after your nth forging character. You can mod your way into getting more companions or cherry picking their skills, but for me the idea to be forced to use mods to make a feature "work" is abhorrent

Oh my! That mercy rule was the issue.

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best weapon for clearing hideouts is the big two handed sledgehammer. its super easy, cheap, and can one shot most bandit thug guys

Your telling me I can take an alley with 10 men and make money off it?

And they said crime doesn't pay

I think that if you ask one of your companions that is following you, to gather all your companions in town, all will come with you and follow you around, other method is ofc to go to the tavern and all of them will be there so you just ask them to follow you if first method is not a thing.

This gives limited opportunity for a underworld empire

Ty

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Excellent video, as always. Thanks!

What happens if the town is attacked and taken over by different faction do you lose your alleys?

I somehow missed that video when it was released. But I have some info for those interested
Concerning xp for the alleys: player gets 40xp daily, 1500xp for the alley taking, and 6000 for defending. alley manager gets 200xp daily (all xp is base xp before multipliers)

I don't see why the companions can't have mercy, I've seen merciful NPC gang leaders before. merciful doesn't mean soft necessarily right

I hope that this modification is only first step from developement. I like it, but it is a little not so good right now.

May adding more ingame depth but moneywise is not worth the effort. Better the traditional pugio..>smithing.

Quick question... am I the one causing the revolts in town by doing quests for the gangs? I've been noticing once I get a gang to 20 ish relationship with quests there ends up being a revolt a few days later...

This would be nice on console

Is the console version behind a few updates? I thought 1.10 was the version just pushed through, but I still have no option to take over the alley

does this mean you can no longer cheese early income by killing all the gangs and taking their loots like jewelry or velvets?

Lol why is the veteran trainer in the tutorial a better fighter than everyone I've seen in every video? Is that fight bugged?

That's cool and all, but when I beat a gang in an alley, I don't get the option to choose. It just kicks me straight to the campaign map and asks me if I want to wait for the gang and fight them. If I choose "no", nothing happens. If I choose yes then I fight the gang again and after defeating them I get the loot, but the alley remains empty with no owner. I have a companion who has 60 roguery and negative trait. I have 10 people including my character and a companion. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Pls help

There ia actually a mod, that makes bandit playthrough at least possible, but i didn't know you can take over alleys in normal games

For me, I can’t get it to work. I defeat the gang. Then it brings me back to the city overview and says wait for gang to regroup or leave. I stay, fight them again. Then it says I won and cleared it out. I hit tab. And all it does it goes back to the city overview again. And I get relations with nobles. That’s all

I don’t get the popuppppp

I have everything and the option to take it over isn’t popping up so wtf is going on😂

Nice guide but when i try to take over an alleway it does not work even tho i have a companion who has the requiering skills. It only teleports me out of the town and asks me to stay and when i do so they will attack me and after i won nothing happens. It would be great if u or anyone else could answer me.
Edit: i just saw that u replied to other people who had the same problem but i dont know how to see what version i have. What i can tell u is that as far as i know the patch came out in january or so and i just bought the game a week ago. Hope u can help me

Wow I didn't even know this was a feature in the game.

The popup window after deafeating a alley-gang doesn't appear for me... I donno how to take ovear an alley..

plssss Why I can not take the alley I have a companion who is suitable yet

Maybe you would be able to help me. I recently started new Bannerlord playthrought aimed at gang lord roleplay.

But everytime i clear the alley, despite meeting criteria, pop up of taking the alley for myself is missing, i am taken straight to loading screen and given info that the other gang and some merchants are Happy with my actions.

At first i thought its because of rbm, but vanilla gameplay seems to be missing this feature too.

Any ideas what may be the problem?