Train Hard, Fight Easy

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Train Hard, Fight Easy

Questline

Previous Quest

Awakening

Next Quest

Keeping the Peace

Quest Info

Location

Rattay

Reward

70

Train Hard, Fight Easy is the fifth main quest in Kingdom Come: Deliverance. After being accepted into Sir Radzig's service, Henry is required to undergo basic training.

Background

Sir Radzig wants me to undertake training with his Captain, Sir Bernard. He has a reputation for being gruff, and I'm not sure whether he'll be too happy about Sir Radzig taking me, a blacksmith's son, into his service.

Quick walkthrough

• Go to the training ground and talk to Captain Bernard.
  • Undertake Bernard's training
    • Slashing (0/5)
      • Stabbing (0/3)
        • Chain strikes (0/3)
          • Block (0/5)
            • Zone change (0/5)
    • Attack the leader (0/3)
      • Perform the perfect block (0/5) [slow]
        • Perform the perfect block (0/5) [medium]
          • Perform the perfect block (0/5) [fast]
    • Attack the teacher (0/3)
      • Dodge the attack (0/3) [slow]
        • Dodge the attack (0/3)
          • Feinting (0/5)
• Follow Bernard to the shooting range.
  • Undertake archery training
    • Compete with Hans Capon in archery
      • Swordfight with Hans Capon
        • Speak to Bernard
• Report to the Bailiff

Detailed walkthrough

Now that Henry is in Sir Radzig's service, the player character will need to undergo basic training. Travel through Rattay and exit through the Northern gate, where the combat arena is located. Speak with Sir Bernard to begin your lessons.

Sword training

The training starts off similar to what Vanyek taught you back in Skalitz. First, move around, then attack. Practice slashing, then stabbing, then chain strikes. Sir Bernard will then teach you about defence and blocking. Once Henry has successfuly learned it, Bernard will invite you to show him what you've learned, and afterwards teach Henry about zone control and more refined blocking. He'll go through it with the player character slowly, then up the pace as the player start to get the hang of it. Hans Capon is spectating Henry and will mock him for his swordplay before continuing into the castle to practice archery. Bernard moves to the next lessons: dodging and feinting.

Archery training

Follow Sir Bernard into Rattay and to the archery range. There, Henry will obtain a set of vambraces. Once your first attempt at archery is over, Hans will mock you for your lack of skill regardless of how well you did and remind you that you ran away at Skalitz. Henry insults the young lord and Sir Bernard threatens to lock him in the stocks, but Hans instead proposes an archery competition. Henry and Hans both get seven arrows. The black bullseye is worth three points, the white ring two points, and the outer ring one point. The first to finish gets three extra points.

After finishing the archery competition, regardless of the result, Hans will challenge Henry to a duel, much to Sir Bernard's frustration. If Henry wins both contests, he will receive Capon's hunting bow. Next, speak to Sir Bernard again, who will direct Henry to visit the Bailiff of Rattay at the Rathaus. Go back through Rattay to the market square, then walk through the arches of the pink building into a courtyard. The tailor's shop will be on the left. Follow the stairs on the right to the Bailiff's quarters, where he is typically found working at his desk. Put yourself at his disposal, and he will appoint you to sentry duty under Nightingale. You are now an official member of the city watch.

Strategies

• Hans seems to favour the defensive rather than the offensive. Side swipes will be ineffective, as his combat jacket will deflect the bows. The best target is the head.

Notes

• Bernard's comments towards Henry after free fighting will vary depending on how well Henry performed. If Henry did not meet his standards, Bernard will remark that he has his work cut out. If Henry performed well, Bernard will say that Henry is on his way to becoming a soldier. Similarly, Bernard will react negatively if Henry missed often during archery training, or reluctantly admit that Henry performed well. Regardless of his performance, Henry's reputation with Bernard will not change.
• Reporting to the Bailiff will enable the option of training with Captain Bernard, so if you are eager to get to the combos and master strikes, head back to Bernard before meeting up with Nightingale.
• Reporting to the Bailiff also enables the bow training by Berthold and Nicholas, which up to that point had been unavailable.
• If you win both the archery contest and the sword duel, you'll get Capon's hunting bow.
• The meeting with Nightingale does not have to be on the same day. Since the meeting with Radzig triggers the first Rattay tournament, you can first take part in that and meet Nightingale the next day. However, if you delay the meeting for too long, the Courtship side quest triggers automatically and you might lose reputation with the Rattay soldiers. A delay of one or two days however does not seem to have a negative impact.
• After the meeting with the Bailiff, the player character is classified as a guard until the conclusion of Keeping the Peace, which means the Rattay guards will not perform searches on Henry for stolen goods during that time.

Trivia

• The quest is named after one of Alexander Suvorov's utterances, in which he states to "train hard, fight easy. Train easy and you will have hard fighting."