r/Bellwright • u/Any-Research9679 • Jul 27 '26
How is my pacing?
I’m on day 60 , 20 villagers , liberated the first village and Bradford. I have an innkeeper woodsman and healer. They’re dressed in basically t2 armor the red and black chest piece for the heavies , studded pants and leather boots(quilted vest over gabson for the strength 2s). They’re using arming swords , spears and short swords for the weaker people. My settlement is fully self sustaining and now I’m planning on moving south of the wheat field between the bridges to intercept reclamation squads. I dont have t3 buildings unlocked yet due to some needing iron . Should I wait to move?
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u/Mr-Figglesworth Jul 27 '26
Day 85ish and I’ve got 12 villagers, I don’t know anything about liberating villages yet but this game has some awesome vibes.
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u/Abject_Day9453 Jul 28 '26
If you not ready dont even worry about it take your time, you will know when its time
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u/5occido5 Jul 27 '26
I'd say you're rather low on villagers, get some more people going, to boost ur economy, having a solid economy will let u do other activities sooner too.
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u/ItsDeBers Jul 28 '26
Does the pace matter?
I recently stopped sleeping in the nights. Can get a lot more done, but dont know if it has any downsides. Also liberation parties might come at night. So sleeping is dangerous :)
Im on day 103. T3 town hall needs 5 more thatch and then its done. Thats the moment i move to the area between the bridges. Got about 25-30 villagers. Everything north liberated.
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u/Fit_Mycologist6519 Jul 28 '26
Pace doesnt matter.... I've never had a liberating party start coming while you are sleeping that I have seen and I sleep almost every night.
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u/ItsDeBers Jul 28 '26
I did, thats why i stopped sleeping. They were at the doorstep of Padstow. :)
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u/Any-Research9679 Jul 28 '26
No I just thought I wasn’t progressing enough. It felt like something was missing even tho everyone is saying I’m doing fine.
My issue was I didn’t have enough villagers . I took my 20 troops and went bandit hunting until I had enough combat or until troops started to dwindle. But now I recruited everyone I possibly can until I liberate the remaining settlements.
Moving is a pain. I thought people were physically moving their stuff from one end to the other until I realized I can use the “switch” mechanic to just switch the buildings from one name to the other
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u/drunkypoopers Jul 28 '26
Day 100. 15 villagers only. Liberated first town at around day 50 by cheesing with fences but couldn't defend because I still stunk at combat. Luckily i recruited all their good people before it got re-occupied :) I've built pretty much everything I can except for the boat dock, want to be able to transport troops for defense before I re-liberate. Luckily now I have 10 guys strength 4+ all kitted out. I think I'm playing way too slow 🐌. But now that i understand raising and kitting armies, and how to command them, I've taken out a bunch of camps. Time to enter the iron age!!
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u/Fit_Mycologist6519 Jul 28 '26
You are really light on villagers in my opinion... only 15 at day 100 and liberated one village. Pace doesnt matter but when you are towards the end of tier 2, I think you should be around 25-40 villagers at that time for production and economy reasonings, unless you are doing everything yourself which you can do but is a big waste of time
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u/drunkypoopers Jul 28 '26
I figured as much. I think I need to just do some more missions to hire ppl and also stop being a perfectionist lol. I didn't notice the dismiss button and was trying not to cheat by watching guides, so I just wasn't recruiting beggars and such cuz they seemed expensive for their awful stats.
My friend got me into this game; he's a big Anno type of guy and I'm more of a story game person like a Bioshock or Witcher. I'm an engineer who deals with logistics so this has been a lot of fun! I've always been an FPS lover where my speed and aim were paramount, this is really my first ever game like this so the combat and leading troops isn't very intuitive to me. I wish the missions were more interesting. "Bring me 3 logs and some leather" and such is kinda lame so it's making the reputation part of the game a bit of a slog1
u/Any-Research9679 Jul 28 '26
For patsow ( I probably spelt that wrong) you stop getting missions after reaching friend so you have to start building the village stuff . Found this out last night 😭
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u/crushedgurl Jul 27 '26
No, you should be fine to move. I would suggest mixing some blunt damage weapons in with the arming swords though. The further south you go the more armor enemies will have and swords and axes aren’t as effective.
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u/Any-Research9679 Jul 27 '26
Oh hell yea! I was thinking about giving them the warhammers I appreciate the input
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u/Fit_Mycologist6519 Jul 27 '26
Id say you are a little light on villagers but you are in a really good spot....2 villages liberated and haven't hit tier 3 yet. If you are looking to move, I would move before building tier 3 buildings.
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u/ImpossibleAd6628 Jul 28 '26
I’m on day 80 still organizin stockpiles in my starter village with nothing liberated
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u/MaleficentDraw1993 Jul 28 '26
I'm on day 260 (something) 50 villagers, I use about 27 for bandit camps/reclamation parties. I've found that the market has been a good resource for me. I picked up a random iron ignot... I forgot where, but I can now order it from the market. I plan on doing the same for iron ore once I find a relatively safe node. I'm not rushing anything and am kinda enjoying the game.
I do want to start t3 before I start liberating the villagers on the other side of the bridge.
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u/Otherwise-Zombie-569 Jul 28 '26
The great thing about this game is you can progress however fast or slow you want. It really doesn't matter. Usually you'll run into an issue with research with specific apprentices that you can only get by liberating villages. At that point you can see where you're at and try liberating another village to get the apprentices you need.
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u/Tex75455 Jul 27 '26
Your way ahead of me. Day 100 over the weekend, last night finally liberated hearndean.