Best ways to level up skill 2022? :: Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord [EN] General Discussions. Content posted in this community. may not be appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work. By clicking View Page, you affirm that you are at least eighteen years old. Don't warn me again for Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. It seems that best way to use companion parties is to keep them in your army 100% of the time. Which keeps them safe and levels your leadership(the only way!). So quartermaster and medicine mostly. Maybe engineering too, since non-army-leader parties can level it, they probably contribute too. Your best bet is to look at the villages tied to a town and purchase workshops that use whatever those villages supply. You can check the nearby castle villages to to see what towns they normally trade with but again if the castle is flupped, those villages will switch to trading with the nearest town of the same faction. 1. Anonymous_Jakalope. RELATED: Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord - Best Scouting Perks. With a high level of this skill and the right perk choices along the way, you can safely send your troops to fight the smaller battles for you without heavy casualties and pick and choose the more important fights that you want to participate in. 10 Tight Formations Get a few workshops and get the perk for trade rumors from your workshops. Then just go off that. That's the best way I've found so far. This comment was from 8 months ago, they've since updated it so trading horses and mules isn't great. Best way I've seen to level up trading now is the caravan exploit. (Remember, you don't need companions with good Trade skill for caravan leaders. It's better to send combat-oriented ones with good Tactics, Leadership, and fighting skills. Trading will level up quickly on them, quicker than combat skills on a merchant.) Further Addendum: Winter 1, 1084. 19.6k denars. 3 caravans running. The Steward skill defines how good a player can manage an armies inventory in essence. The skill is mostly to do with feeding your armies and managing food. A higher Steward skill means you can have and manage a larger army. As you gain levels in Steward, the total army size that you can control will get higher. That is, the party size. I'm not sure if anyone has tested it yet. in 1.7.1, you can just do horse trade. the margins are far superior to others. or, you can sit in a town and just buy all the horses, sell all the horses, over and over. it costs like 20k or so every time, but you will skill up trade. if you have 2mill or so, you can just brute force it this way FybM.