Start the game and choose the towns, castles, and spouse you wish to conquer. Yes, do so at this point. Those fiefs are your goals, make sure its not more than four and that they are all adjacent to each other on the map. Ensure that the people in the town and the surrounding villages love you by doing their quests. The second option is to renounce your vassalage to your king. This means losing all of your fiefs and a -20 reputation penalty with the king. After that, you need to take a castle or a town on your own to form a new kingdom. You cannot siege a castle or a town without having negative reputation with the faction. you can leave with your fiefs and buy peace for 200k-1m depending on the worth of your fiefs. then you are not a kingdom you can build your money since no one can declare on you. when youre ready to make the kingdom make sure to recruit as many other clans as you can as fast as you can and have full garrisons. ArcaneEnigmaX. Founding your own kingdom is a feature new to Warband. It is the ability to set yourself up as a king or queen of your own fully fledged faction. Trying to conquer land in the original Mount&Blade while being unaffiliated with a leader shows a long text stating that you are a "commoner" and have no right to be "treated as a king". All monarchs Late game is pretty boring. Im on my longest playthrough yet. ConsiderMyKingdom mod gives me 10 clans in my kingdom (all tier 5 or 6) Yet all I do is recruit units and upgrading them. The clans in my kingdom only raise armies around 500-700, even though I hand them free influence. yea starting a kingdom is very stressful and often takes a few tries as people with send an army of 1400 to steamroll everything you own. Need to build relations with everyone before launching your own kingdom. If youre ever stuck facing an ungodly amount of enemies, you can always spam horse archers, loose some volleys, retreat, attack again I almost always take Nevyansk first bc it's always low on troops but that area is ALWAYS infested with looters. I would take Oristocoris castle, it is easily defensible as it only has one way in or out. Both villages are close by. Easier from there to mount attacks to the Western Empire, Vlandia and Aserai. Join a kingdom. Participate in a war with an enemy that does not directly border your kingdom (e.g. if you are in Vlandia, you need a war with Sturgia). Take a castle that is strategically placed to be near a third kingdom (e.g. Kranirog or Mazhadan) and get the king to give it to you. It's best if the castle is Level 3. Hkk16L9.