Mount & Blade: Warband: No-Nonsense, Rarest Achievements Guide.

Rarest Achievements:

Girl Power – Visit Taverns, Lord’s hall, Castles. Ask Bards about female claimant location (it will be lady of Suno or someone else). Conquer the exact faction the claimant is talking about (go see quest tab) in their history and put her on the throne instead.

Empress – Conquer the whole land as a female character, in your faction, by eliminating other factions one-by-one. It’s advised to attack the weakest factions at the time and don’t try to fight two factions at the same time, for you will most likely lose land. You want to imprison lords and vassals and do not sell them back, as well as try to convince other lords to join your side (they will join you with their fiefs). Also if you want to do it fast, put the difficulty to “poor”.

Manifest Destiny – As an independent ruler, before you besiege the last castle of the last remaining faction, save the game. Go to your court, kick all of your vassals so you have none. Send an emissary to the remaining faction and ask for truce, then ask them to have you as their vassal. If that wont work, try to find the king and ask him in-person, if that won’t work (though it should), try doing some missions for him, make him like you more, then try again later. That way, once he agrees, all of your land will go over to that faction making them the last remaining faction granting you the achievement. Then go back to your last save-state and besiege (conquer) the last castle / town, triggering the Empress achievement…

All of the (MP) Multiplayer achievement CAN be achieved with BOTS. Just go over to multiplayer, host a game, then go over to settings and add bots to the enemy team. There is one achievement that gives a headache and won’t trigger. I do not remember the name, but you have to sit through the entire 30-minute game in order to get it.

CHA – Increases your Party Size by 1, unlocks Leadership, grants extra morale for troops as well as decreases their cost.

INT – Gives you +1 skill point when level up and unlocks levels for other skills (1/3 of INT)
AGI – Don’t bother.

STR – The max STR you want to have is 15. Anything above that is just a waste of points. 15 Unlocks the Heavy Maul which breaks enemy blocks and will oneshot non-armoured troops. I did not bother with Ironflesh.

Renown – You increase it when winning fights, especially if you are outnumbered. The more you have it, the more troops you can manage on the top of your current CHA bonus and Leadership level.

Right to Rule – Max level 99. Other lords will respect you and consider you as a ruler once you create your own faction. You need to have some of it before you can start your own kingdom. You can increase the level by sending your companions to “spread the word”. Notice: You can send one companion only once. And if you happen to have “their rival” in your party, once you send such companion to spread the word to gain the right to rule, the other companion will get upset and tell you that they will not do that for you — so you essentially lose the ability to send him to gain the right to rule at early stage of the game. This is bypassed by sending one of the companion on the mission while telling the latter to leave your party, so you can recruit them later in the future and immediately after you’ve welcomed them back, ask them to spread the word for you. It takes 2-in game days for one of the companions to complain to you about the other “spreading your word” mission. I hope that makes sense lol.

Honour – Most of the lords are “Nobles”. They despise bandits who raid villages or attack villagers / caravans. If you have negative Honour, they will be hostile toward you, won’t want to be your vassals and usually have negative relations with them. It’s like attacking monasteries in VQ, you lose your relations with most of the lords each day without doing anything.

Having finished VQ like three times and having managed 480+ soldiers in a single party i find STR to be absolutely useless in the game. If you have medium-strong party, you won’t need to even move when fighting or besieging a castle, making STR and your best weapons obsolete. It’s useful in early stage when you it’s just you vs some small groups of bandits. Notice: Sometimes, your troops may get stuck whilst besieging a castle and be a very big target for defenders’ archers. I have lost many sieges this way, despite having best troops and having three times more soldiers. The best way to not let this happen is to get yourself a shield (heavy thick large shield worked for me), walk up to the castle entrance making the entry for your troops so they won’t get stuck on the ladders. I sometimes cleared archers on the towers as well so i would lose less soldiers per siege. Even heavily armoured troops are vulnerable to range-troops, especially in sieges.

The Companions that I’ve chosen were:

Deshavi
Ymira
Katrin
Klethi
Jeremus
Marnid
Nizar
Bunduk

On every Companion i maxed INt also i maxed out Trainer first (including myself).

Reason – Mostly chicks. Mostly non-nobles (they will not object when raiding villages). This is one of the perfect companions combo, for they will never have issues with other companions in your party.
For more info visit: https://mountandblade.fandom.com/wiki/Hero_tactics

When starting a new game, remember to select the options according to what your character to be, whether you want to max CHA or INT or go for a warrior (it ruins the immersion, but gives you more points at the start).
Visit: https://mountandblade.fandom.com/wiki/Character_creation

Once you run your own Faction, when you grant one of your vassal a fief, others will get upset (-3 to relations) unless they are related, or you’ve asked them “who should receive… in their opinion” and they chose that exact person, then they will either like you, or just not get negative relations with you. This works the same when selecting a Marshal.
Also, if you have really bad relations with one of your vassals, you may want to keep appointing them as a Marshal. Simply switch between him and some other vassals once 3 in-game days. This will give you +5 to relations with him. Lengthy process but prevents you from losing a vassal and the fiefs you’ve given him to other faction.

The troops i had:
Swadian Knights only.

Reason: Heaviest Cavalry in game. They perform reasonably well in sieges (there are better troops for that). They dominate any other battles, any terrain type.
I also like Khardian Mounted Archers and Sultanate? Lancers, but mostly i trained Swadian Knights.
You get them on the certain part of the map (East of Praven / Suno) befriend villages by doing quests for them, and they will let you recruit Swadian troops once 2 in-game days.