Wartales Extreme Guide Part 1 - Best Crew Size, Skills, Builds, Professions & More!

I play solo 2-handed warrior. with two donkeys.
Most fights are very hard and have a lot to do with running away.

The traveling traders provide me with good helmets and armor very early on.

My question is, where can I get my first good weapon in the starting area? I already have the runes for lvl6 armor from the hunters. However, I still have my starting weapon in my hand

Just lost my entire awesome party 40hrs in..... Sad

i like playing novice. its just more fun and can play however you want without worrying about giga-chess

Nice Vid man! I just see an issue with not having some of the other professions maxed out in the late game.
For example: without an experienced miner, you won't get Rimsteel which makes the blacksmith worthless past level 6 armor

Tha k you amazing guide

im sort of using this team build for my current run. but ive bumped my team to 10 guys so far. especially since pugilists are now available. my current and only 1 can melt away almost all enemies on first contact. i still need 1 more warrior to fully flesh out everything. but so far the teams rocking everything it comes accross.

of course i dont have every guy setup the same as yours. i find that Infantry on 1 archer supported by the second works wonders, having the ability to pot shot anyone who runs into the area 3 or moves in/out of the area is valuable.

What debuff did you use for all your characters and why?

They increased Taunt to 2 VP.

Locked or Adaptive?

No spearman or warrior? Thoughts on them?

For me the best team is 10 cuz their is 10 professions. Thanks for the tips

My current party is 48 members strong. I have no problem paying or feeding them. And I love the 100 enemy battles.

The Ranger Strategist is my 1st must have, and the upgraded smokescreen synergizes well with the Infantryman's overwatch skill Barrage (and Spearman's Spearwall).

Add the upgraded Knife Throw at level 5 and he will turn the tide of battle in one turn with all the moves he can make.

Great Video!

Hi, great guide! One question regarding scholar, I've read in multiple places that is one of the essential professions, you did not include it, why?

I wound up with 5 bears, 1 crocswine, and 3 mole rats with my 12 people. Way to many for adaptive. Battles started crashing my game with the amount of fighters on both sides

wait i thought RUN, FIRST AID and WRATH costs 1 Valor Point Only? how come it costs 2? is it because of extreme mode?

How would you further skill your mercs? I reached allready level 6 and 7 and i am about to have to choose again at level 8. Btw your guides are very helpfull, one can easily be overhelmed by all the concepts in this game.

Fishing. I give up fishing 12months ago as I can not catch a fish, ever. There is a animal skill where a bear that is in your team will catch fish. I haven't used animals for a long time. Thanks for the effort to bring this guide to us. Keep up the good work.

late game pro tip, give COOK to everyone (that dosnt need specific profesion) before rest, the masters food reduction stacks. and salt scoop should also stack on multiple cooks
its handy with big parties, but require some grinding

I stared the game few days ago and on just medium difficulty my ass was handed back to me on day 8... :D
That is when I came across your guides and started enjoying the game. Beside the core mentioned in your video I have added one more weapon style just for the fun of it.
Thank you for the guides.

amazing guide for an amazing game, thx for ur effort to help beginners and avanced players.
the game has almost everything i like about turnbased rpgs, just a few quality of life things would be great like a filter for the inventory would make the game even better.

I'm not too sure about the extreme difficulty, but at least for experienced mode, just remember that there's no need to always feed your troop to the full amount, allowing you to actually hold a fairly large party size. There's no associated benefits to fully feeding your crew. Your crew, with 4 people around the fire, can already generate 1 happiness each (offsetting a -4 happiness). Alcohol of any kind also generates 1 happiness each, with some foods like syrup generating 2 happiness. This means that you can offset negative happiness while underfeeding your troop. I've done this for days in a row with no negative repercussions or traits. Unless you're desperate to generate renown points or something, you should be able to easily keep 15 happiness for a good amount of game weeks.

Didn't they need riposte fighter? Counter attack now only affects the first engagement.
AoO now ignores guard so you take more damage from the hit trading

15 days and level 7 already? I’m like a month and a half in and barely level 5-6. Is there a exp farming method?

What are the consequences for re-assigning professions mid game level 7ish? I have some sub-optimal assignments to the wrong character type and am wondering what happens to the experience accumulated by the individual when you reassign to another party member. Thanks for letting me know.

i start play the game 2 days ago, i have experience form jagged alliance and turn games in General. And in this game u need think your strategy before the fight, the game is focused on fighting beside of exploring, looting, crafting, and Quests. I thought that the "Vanguard" is a nice to have ability, but as you said a "destroyer" is better, because it takes 50% less Damage, i think this is a must have Perk. I will Focus my Troops to have at least 1-2 Destroyers in my Team, i will play with at least 1 Harponeer, (which is also very powerful in combination).

Do wolves and other fighter animals increae enemy count?

I'm confused, most of you're abilities cost 2 points to use, but with mine most cost 1. Does it change late game?

Pretty good guide. If I played normally I would've totally went with something like this. But I prefer funny party compositions.

Right now I play full plague party. One ranger built into poisoner, one archer just to control my rats, copious amounts of rats, some with perk that allows them to reproduce, some with the perk that allows them to call for reinforcements under 50% hp, and 5 plague-ridden zombies from Ludern. Poison is OP, especially if every bite of every rat adds two stacks to it and whole battlefield is in poison clouds from plague-ridden zombies. One thing I fear is those a-hole outlaw archers that bombard you with fire.

Why not use viper dagger en frenzy with backstab for poison

sorry but, im at the "end game", i got most of the characters lvl 11 and im having the akhedian things and whatever, but still i cant use my knowledge point to unlock the anvil skill to build akhedian or rimested steel one hand weapon like sword or mace one handed. Idk if i missed some missions, or just bug, but i dont think i need some recipe to unlock them, do u have any suggestions guys?

I hate that this game basically forces you to have 5+ humans to cover all of the professions. Even doing dual professions, you need at least 4..
I wanted to do a play through with only 1 beastmaster, a tank, and a pack of Animals. I quickly realized that advancing professions would be near impossible if I had to split them all between 2 companions.
I’d have to hyper focus on 1 at a time just to level them decently

Not off to a good start with a guide telling people the enemy troop size scales with your troop size. When the game has two modes

Do you not like Sword Master? I find that skill more appealing

I recently started Wartales a few days ago, your guides are very helpful!

It would be great if you could share the location/quest to obtain some key belt/accessories item.

My crew size is 22 ahahaha, 4 of them are Master Cook so reduce 2 food per Cook. So far the only time I fight against 24 or more is when I fight Rat infestation or random encounter saving merchants against outlaws

I stopped you at crew size as you have spend 400+ hours in game not learning which is the best one . 95% of my battles in WT I've outnumbered my foes with a steadly incresing party number based on region (locked region scaling). GL ! tip: when enteering a new region, you can tell the average party size of the foes, after 2 battles, just don't go above +2 for your own.

Need a guide to where the belt and backpack items are. Or is it RNG? Or that bleeding oil i googled it but couldn't find where you buy it? Do u know where? Awesome videos man, I used your advice for early game and it helped heaps.

i only got one archer and he his a beast master, got 2bear and a wolf. Cost a lot of food but can be helpful

the belt item that gives you -50% op. attack damage suffered is quite op for the fighter build. you can combo it with the riposte shield and the deflection perk... you can attack and disengage in sequence to earn valor, take no damage and melt the enemy. you can also combo with lvl 10 skill of 50% chance to attack on dsng instead of being attacked. Basic one of the most broken builds (english aint my main language... sorry)