A short guide for new lords stepping onto the marches for the first time. Culture, charter, and the first three structures every house should raise.
Welcome to the marches. If you are reading this, you have already cleared the three-step onboarding funnel: culture, region, charter. Your first castle stands. Your first peasants wait for orders.
Raise a Wheat Field first. It will not feel impressive, but the Steward background service consumes raw wheat to keep your peasants fed, and an unfed peasant produces nothing. Wheat is the foundation under every other yield.
Raise a Granary second. The default storage cap on a starter castle is low, and an overflowing Wheat Field is wasted Wheat Field. Storage upgrades are cheap and compound for the rest of the game.
Raise a Barracks third, but do not recruit yet. Troops cost wheat to feed; the cost compounds with every march. Save the recruitment slot for when you have a reason — a hostile neighbor probing your borders, an Order banner forming, a raid you can answer.
The marches reward patience. Welcome, lord.