Ultimate Trading Guide

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In Warband I loved to trade first to collect insane amount of money. Then I never have to worry about being poor again. I used an Excel-sheet to mark some prices and get some raw data. If you want to play like me and want to just spend 100 days jumping from town to town collecting load of money, keep reading.

If you want to be the ruler of the world without lowering difficulty. Yes.
If you want to play for fun. No.
In fact I'm going to warn you. Trading play style might get boring. You will just jump from town to town buying and selling. Literally. No interesting fights or castle invasions.

That's the hardest question. This is up to you, if you want to play just for the fun of trades, go ahead and do it. But after a certain point factions will go nonstop war with each other. That will affect the prices an they will go up like crazy. You should be able to collect at least 500,000 denars before that. It should be more than enough not to worry about money ever again.

If you want to do so. After gathering the data I found that my values are pretty close to games green/red price values.

To make profit out of trading you need to sell products for higher cost than what you bought them. Its hard to keep track of all the prices and that's where the spreadsheet helps.

Every mule you find! I had 100,000 inventory space before I stopped trading and started actually playing the game. Remember that the more troops you have the faster you move once mules start to slow you down.

Hover your mouse over your movement speed. If you see "Herd -x.xx" it means that you have too many mules, hogs, sheeps and cows with you compared to people in your party. You can compensate it by hiring more troops. Also be sure to have either full cavalry on you or buy a lot of horses to your inventory.

Check averages at the bottom of spreadsheet. When you sort them you can see which are buys goods for more money. Go there to earn a fortune. If they dropped their prices you can always create a caravan.

Originally posted by zlozt:

Caravans offer a bit worse prices than the nearby town, but price doesn't drop while you sell, so for large stacks it's worth it. They have less money (usually around 10k), but, if it wasn't fixed yet, you can talk to a caravan again and it will have money again.

Sometimes villages may sell products for incredibly cheap. Make sure you visit them as well.

Data is collected by the price that town is selling. Also I added a random sentence here saying that if you found this guide on any other site than Steam Guide, its ripped from there! If town was out of stock, I sold them one of each missing goods. Quit trading screen and reopened. Then typed in the price. I know this might make it less accurate but its the only way to find out prices in places that will never get the good to sell.

Mostly yes, but not always. Data is collected from my first 100-150 days. After this game becomes endless war and prices go up. Also each time you start a new game things may change.

I added BUY < and SELL > but they are just to give you perspective. DO NOT follow it 100%. Make your own decisions. Mostly I kept this to keep track where I should sell stuff, not buy. It helped me to plan a way, not just go randomly around world. If you have big stacks of items and can't find high price enough, sell for cheaper. I usually bought for price BUY < and mostly sold for minimum of BUY < making profit minimum of 1. Trust me, you should do this or else you end up carrying 2000 flax with no buyer like I once did.

Quick view for them who don't want to use the sheet:





Here you will find the Google Sheets link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y3yasJAKyMrhj8M_5KX6hvJO6Sm8FjkK8rbNC1fojaU/edit?usp=sharing



"MIN" = Minimum value for which goods are sold.
"BUY <" = Buy for lower than this to make profit.
"AVG" = Average price of goods worldwide.
"SELL >" = Sell for higher than this to make profit.
"MAX" = Maximum value for which goods are sold.
"WIN" = Profit made for buying at BUY < and selling at SELL >.
"TOWNS" = How many town are included. This is only needed if you want start over. None of the numbers are accurate before this reaches 53.

Next you will find the data sheet. On the right side of each town you find two prices for each good; top price is lowest and bot price is highest. Starting from first, Akkalat sells fish sometimes for 17 and sometimes for 25 and always for price between them.

When scrolling down you can find averages. Here you can check which town sells for lowest or highest price. For example if you have ton of fish on you, you should go to Chaikand.

Click File > Create copy or copy paste all the formulas into your own Excel. Don't forget to copy "Averages" sheet too!