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It feels a bit of a shame and counter intuitive that the only way to recruit the minor clan units is to fight them. Would make more sense if you could befriend them and pay to recruit them once you've charmed them enough.

Would like to see the minor factions having an expanded role/mechanics and easier to recruit, really good guide video

One thing to keep in mind is that there are some perks that give some significant wage reduction to mercenaries specifically, and they stack with the general wage deduction perks. If you get all of these perks you can actually end up paying a negative wage to mercenaries (or they pay you to fight for you). Pretty hilarious although it does require you take specific perks in a bunch of different skills to pull off.

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Funny enough I watched your old minor clan video yesterday and thought. I wonder when he's gonna update information. Bonus you included mercenary troops.

One extra note, the gallant sword sisters don't require a mount to upgrade to mounted, this actually makes them actually a cheaper option for a troop that would generally require a war horse in a lot of cases, the extra 6 gold a day will take a while to equal the cost of a war horse. If you want ranged cav, but are in the north western parts of the map, I think they are worth investing in. My use of mercenaries are generally to fill a particular gap. They never are as bad as recruits are at fighting so if I was recently defeated I will pick up some mercenaries which will serve as the initial core of my army while I level up the more traditional troops. They enable me to take fights I couldn't with 20 or so largely recruits against the different bandit factions and to start the chain of leveling up those recruits faster. I will typically use my own garrisons for this sort of thing if they are in the area, but I will spend gold to reach the point where I can be doing bigger better things faster. Eventually, I fire them when I'm at max troops again. I don't want them in my like final composition, but they are good tools to help you reach that final composition faster IMO.

You couldn't ask for a more informative video great work man.

Ideal to give to your companion parties. If you have them as an army, they often give away troops to garrisons. By giving them "junk troops" you lose fewer of your faves. If you are on a long military campaign (and rely on recruitment from prisoners a lot) you can also bolster AI armies that took heavy losses. While I did collect 200+ Sword Sisters in warband for funsies, I considered mercenaries overpriced emergency troops and mostly ignored em in Bannerlord. 😁). I also liked to keep my troop roster clean and short, not filled with ones and twos of random subpar troops or caravan guards that don't upgrade.

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As a new player to Mount and Blade, your videos have helped me immensely! Been loving Bannerlord thanks to you.

Thank you! This is one of the most useful video's yet I love to spice out my armies with minor clans and bandit troops, yet now I know I should be getting those veteran caravan guards to

I would like to see some of the merc units have slightly better equipment at higher tier. Especially the sword sister. Maybe have a combat line for her as well.

I always wanted to see someone do a play through with the sword sisters. Gives me a Joan of Arc vibes.

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Camels are taller than horses which makes it awkward to attack them even on horseback. I think the Ghulam is really good just because you almost have to dehorse them before attacking them directly.

Great timing on this vid! I had been looking for something like this, but there isn't much out there with updated info on minor clan units.

Great video, really love your bannerlord content man.

Great video Sparty!

Actually, here's a way to get Caravan Guards (and Veterans, and Bosses, and Traders) *without* attacking Caravans (or hiring via the tavern place) - trail behind a caravan for a bit, and wait until it gets jumped, and beaten, by Bandits. Then, attack the weakened bandits, beat them, and "rescue" the prisoners - the guards and such that are still around. A similar tactic works for "recruiting" troops of minor factions - oh, and the Leader will thank you for rescuing them.

15:00 - the Aserai Footman has a Mace and good shield, they are easy to get and train and relatively cheap too. For me, they have 100% rate of knocking out the bandits from the hideout. Same for the army of poachers and even for the deserters. not bad in a shield wall on the open battlefield and again, a really high rate of getting prisoners. And if they die - they are super easy to get in the Aserai lands (get the basic troops and train them up to tier III).

When you have around 50 gallant sword sisters, it's very very impressive against almost everyone

Love your sense of comedy 😂 most people that make these tutorials have no social wits about them.

Thank you for doing this video!

I am brand new at this game and thank lord this describes a lot of new stuff for me

For Sturgian Infantry you need to Mix Axe and Spear for maximum Effect as the Axemen are better vs other infantry than the spears and the spears help deal with opposing Cav, personally i run a near 50/50 mix of Sturgian axe and spear for my main line infantry

Thank you for the great video.

Love the M&B guides

Thank you for the video!

When I convinced the arboreals to join my kingdom after capturing their leader as a prisoner while they were a mercenary for Battania, they joined as a vassal instead of a mercenary and brought in a castle with them

Mercenary macemen ironically don,t use their maces when attacking (at least in my battles) they have a sword that is placed out of view when you first look at em which they use. I noticed this when I tried to capture a bunch of bandits and they were getting slaughter rather than knocked out. I paid attention to the macemen in battle and sure as .... they drew their swords instead of their maces. The initial level of them the "swordsman" ironically has only a mace to use beside the javelins that you can tell to hold fire.

Veteran cav guards are not really slightly weaker "regular" heavy cavs, because their horses are practically unarmourded. It makes a huge difference

Nice guides you have on your shoulders. I suggest also making a guide someday on tactics on the battlefield because i returned recently on the game but i noticed it changed a lot. Interface but also possible things todo.

Yay. Sword sisters!!!

Very informative.

Love the Valdor ref

I've seen them pick up weapons from the dead in the middle of battle when there was space. Thought that was really cool. Anyway mercs are a quick way to get troops of decent skill. So of course it's better to get natural troops or pikemen but it's not always possible.

I really wished they hadn't nerfed the minor clans as much as they did. Before the nerf, running into a comparable sized unit was a major challenge. Now they're more like a speed bump and annoying to have to police when they are constantly raiding your villages. The entire concept of minor clans needs a rethink and update.

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I cant wait until you drop the video talking about the bandit units. i would like to do a full bandit play through but not sure how to set up the characters skill early game. Late game you get perk under rougery that makes bandit party offer too join you every time. It gets ridiculous at that point considering the AI never destroys Hideout so you can continuously replenish your force just by being fast enough to catch them.

I miss warband's mercenaries (actually worth their price)

Wondering if you could do a best garrison troop video? Figure there’s so many different options you could have.

Doesn't the Elite Mercenary Macemen have a two-handed weapon in it's kit? I feel that something worth discussing as far as their usage is concerned.

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I feel you I wanted them to add camel armor since launch

A downside to the veteran caravan guards compared to the cavalry of the same tier is that they have little to no horse armor For the lake rats, I also like that they have javelins rather than axes to throw. Mostly because javelins generally have bigger stacks. The pole arm skill might be so they could, in theory, use a javelin as a spear. Not that they ever do.

Is it possible for you to review B.A.R.D Troops overall he just got done with all the faction just not the bandits or the minor Clan troops but is a good overall in my opinion. And it might give him some pointers if he watches your videos on it.

What is the effect of deflect on infantry mercs if they are better on one hand than their equivalents already?

Your videos are my go to for bannerlord 😁

Thanks on investing time pal

Speaking of Minor clans, do rebel clan’s count? Can they be recruited under your kingdom?

I had a question. All im seeing in terms of troops to buy are recruits. Should I be buying a bunch of recruits and upgrading them a couple tiers?

It would be cool of they let you customize units when you start a kingdom select a preexisting unit and have your own noble line, infantryman, ect unique to your kingdom to balance it I'd say make them cost more the better gear you put on them its a thought anyway and I'd it would make you feel more invested in your kingdom

How do you change the sets available per unit to reflect what they use on the field

is there a way to make your spearman put them in front of regular infantry if so can you make video on it and stuff of that nature

What mods do you know that currently work that modify troop rosters? Jackie Fish made a video on the mod My Little Warband, that allows you to have your own personal troop tree. I don't think it allows you to change the other rosters and where the players sees their troops as recruitable, the AI sees normal troops. (not 100% sure) I saw a mod that allows alternate rosters to be loaded for modders (ATC something?), and a fragile looking mod that changed xml files to be loaded and save file versions in a different folder that should work but had a bunch of disclaimers about crashes. Iirc you needed to be in your own kingdom? While it's so much better now, having game content like troops and their rosters as loadable files would be awesome. But tweaking risks making something unintentionally OP, so a balanced and playtested community fixed faction and minor faction list would be even better. I'm surprised I didn't find anything like that, did I just miss it?

How do you pick your army? “The coolest looking ones” ah a man of many cultures lol

Does going war with a minor faction damage your relation with the MAJOR faction (that the minor faction derived from)?

For console you want to press the picture button opposite the menu button

Would love if you could rescue civvies and turn them into mercs like you could in Warband...

Do they only Join you as mercenaries or can they join permanently?

Thx for this video, but I don't get my Mace mercenaries to use their maces. It is a pain in the....Do you know how to do it? they use shield and one handed sword.

I've had countless encounters with their parties that had like 90% regular troops and not their own special troops. Sometimes even zero clan troops.

If you wipe out all minor clans will you make more money as a mercenary after removing the competition?

So how do you survive the early stages of your kingdom when others come with huge armies? Rn I barley have 150 troops and it just seems very difficult to survive. Thanks!

I really wish there was a way to hire minor clan units, outside of prisoner recruitment I mean

I find it stupid im a vassal for a kingdom and i have to pay mercenaries it’s bankrupting me and i didn’t even hire them is there a way to stop it because thats completely stupid some days im paying 6k

Please do an economy/gold making guide.

Why do units have attribute points in weapons that they aren't using?

Joining a minor clan would give them a actual purpose, and should be added to the game

What helmet do you gave equipped? Is it a mod? I wants it lol

If minor factions join your faction they are still.mercenaries that can switch factions right? I kicked the Ghilmans out because everyone kept voting to give them fiefs and i didnt want them to defect with a fief

In all of my playthroughs I just execute anyone in a mercenary clan and try to wipe them all off the map to help whatever faction I'm in (or my own kingdom) because it just makes the game more fun.

51:15 now that you’re mentioning camels I think they are the only creatures/anything that makes me feel bad in this game. When they’re trotting around in the desert getting arrows swamped on them. The way they run alone looks funny in the distance. Then their ex Master dies to the ground and they’re just roaming around as sheer terror continues to rain upon the rest of his fellow Comrades 😢😂

So can you recruit them permanently this way?

What's the point of having unique and rare units if you're going to nerf them?

To get the guards you could burn a bridge with a faction and farm the caravan ambush quests and just let them get slaughtered and hire the survivors.

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Picked shots, Mercenary connections, Contractors

After watching this i'm wondering if it's even worth it to recruit specialized units? Like Pikes for a frontline, skirmishers to flank etc. I know how to group it up but the scrolling thing is bad since you have to spend so much time getting the right units in each special group and then some die and you have to do it all over again.

23:22 - What really turns me off from Vet. Vlandian Caravan Guards: They're riding a Rouncy. One of the worst horses of the game. Top speed of 44, 200 health...abysmal, 22 charge damage. What good is their polearm skill - if they charge with the speed and force of a bicycle? Your guide is great, and helpful. :) But a little closer look at mount quality could make it even better. Thanks for what you do!

30:09 Wait. You can have minor factions as vassals? I thought they can only be mercenaries.

The bottom righthand side of your screen How did u get more info to show?

I find even the nerfed Eleftheroi to be one of the biggest threat to my caravans due to their speed...

Would love to have armoured camelry lol

@ 1:10 it's the Back/Select button on xbox

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Dear Italian Spartacus: thanks for the videos. Are you sending people to link with you on Telegram, or, is there a bot operating i n your Bannerlord videos? Thanks

Didn't minor clans used to go up to tier 5? I remember they used to be some of the top end troops I had thought.

Can you do an Empire build?

They should have kept the hired blade as a mercenary and replaced the hired pikeman or make it so it can be a hired blade as well

How do you enable the cheats?

i love sword sisters but they always die in like hand to hand cus they REFUSE TO WEAR HELMETS

Why isn't mercenary swordsmen and mercenary cavalry not part of this list?

the empire has mounted crossbows dont they?

Thanks for the video, but I have to point out that your titles in the bottle left are wrong. For example, you put Easter instead of western and vice versa. 😅

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Encyclopedia is opened on the select button on Xbox. If you didn't know, now you know.

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Where's my 2H mace units :(