Hex Editor Cheats
In order to complete these cheats you will need to have a hex editor installed on your computer You will need to find your saved Lords of the Realm 2 game Should be somewhere in Program Files CProgram FilesSierraLords 2save1 quotsave1quot will be whatever you put in the save game field when saving your game Once opened there will be a long list of numbers and letters Find the following numbers and change the values to FF in order to gain the correlating cheat
CodeEffect14B80 14B81 14B82167 Million Gold14BB8 14BB965K Bows14BA8 14BA965k Crossbows14B88 14B8965K Iron14BBC 14BBD65K Knights Armor14BAC 14BAD65K Maces14BB4 14BB565K Pikes14B90 14B9165K Stone14BB0 14BB165K Swords14B98 14B9965K WoodHint General strategies
If you really want to get ahead the game you will
need money and happiness of peasants In order to do this start
the game by selling most of your cows and all of your crossbows
These are worth a lot of money and provide start up cash for your
goal Buy about 1500 to 2000 units of wheat and ration your food
so that most of the consumption is of grain and very little cows
Then set your taxes at 6 and buy lots of iron and a little
wood Make your blacksmith produce armor knights and sell them
when the merchant arrives again Repeat and you will be very
rich over time Use the money you make for upgrades to castles
buying other weapons buying mercenary groups or more food for
your peasants This strategy depends on you building up your territory
first then striking out at neighboring counties Another tip
is to attack the middle county out of an enemys land that touches
yours This does two things The first is you gain another county
The second is you will split his land mass up and he will actually
lose control of more than just the one county Obviously be ready
for retaliation
Strategy by Laura Omniscient
Strategy by Wendell Martin
Integer rollover for happiness
If a province is losing around 160 happiness per season from taxes the 160 happiness will rollover to about 120 happiness This will be shown directly in the tax box Additional taxes lower the 120
The only way to get 160 happiness for taxes is to have about 7 provinces all at 50 tax becuse of the 15 happiness to all counties for each one and the 50 for itself Then not only will you have an almost unlimited income you will have a huge happiness bonus for all provinces Not immensely useful you need 7 procinces for it to work but it039s fun to do at the end of a game
Also watch out for happiness itself039s rollover Once I had a province with 100 happiness and getting 30 happinessturn and the next turn it went to 0 another rollover Don039t worry when at 0 the happiness will start to go up again but it is unsettling for a turn or two
Receive Faster Letter Replies
After you have sent a message to any one of the nobles save your game then reload You will get the reply in the same season you sent them
Think Feudal Think Cows
When you move from the open battlefield to siege warfare be prepared to shift your whole attitude Whereas conventional battles tend to be resolved rather quickly sieges will take several seasons to conclude successfully or not Whether youre planning to storm a castle or defend one you must plan siege operations carefully and methodically
True most sieges climax with a desperate melee inside the castle walls but youll usually spend much more time trying to breach those walls or prevent the enemy from doing so Archers really come into their own during sieges so you may want to reorganize your army a season or two in advance of a siege so that youll have more of them
Before you can hope to storm a castle you must thin out the ranks of the defenders Only massed arrow fire or catapults can do that If you attempt to wheel up your siege towers and battering rams before youve weakened the garrison chances are that the crews will be slaughtered and the siege will fail
If youre defending a castle be very careful about when and where you deploy your vats of boiling oil Remember that you only get a certain number of these per castle and once theyre used up your ability to repulse an assault diminishes greatly Watch out for feints by the attacker and try to save the oil for use against towers and battering rams its effect can be spectacular if not decisive
And finally a word about guerrilla tactics If you are not yet strong enough to engage in a fullstrength campaign against a more powerful neighbor simply march an army crosscountry and on to a square containing a mine quarry sawmill or forge and that facility will turn to a pile of blackened cinders with serious consequences to your enemys economy Of course this only works if you can hurriedly withdraw your force before the enemy can intercept it
Its also a doubleedged tactic If you conduct such raids into a province you plan to occupy soon youll also be damaging your own economy since those ruined facilities cannot be made operational again without many seasons of effort being devoted to rebuilding them
