The subreddit for all things dedicated to Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord. Members Online • Unfair_Sky_2824 What you want is create an army. You can form an army The ability to block and parry in Bannerlord is essential to staying alive. You may be able to hack and slash your way through a small group of pitiful bandits, but if you try that with a fully armored and well trained army, you will quickly be overwhelmed. It is easy to become frustrated with blocking and parrying at first; it’s not entirely Originally posted by Syllabus: Just order them to "sergants take charge". The command input is: 4 - F6. For horse archers, the base AI script is to use swarm tactics, so they stay away from melee engagement, and circle around the enemies and fire arrows, like the way you want. You dont fire arrows, you loose them. #13. Ransom them, release them, recruit them or chuck them in a dungeon ASAP to remove the speed penalty here. High morale is always good, not just for speed. Caravans are hard to chase down without having a very mobile force. Use horse archers and/or cav and mounted troops if you have too. Warband has a mod where you can make your own troops. It presents you with a troop tree that has branches just like normal troops. Only you are given a set amount of gold and xp for each troop level to choose their equipment and skill. It was very well done. On a separate note AI combat in Bannerlord is trash. After joining a faction, it’s time to make it crumble from within: 5.1. Keep buying all their settlements and repeat 3. It might be easier to check the kingdom’s clans and who all the landowners are, then use them to form an army. If they are already in an army, you can force disband them in the kingdom’s army menu. Fians make great shock infantry as needed and you really don't need Falxmen although the tier 4 is a really good shock unit. This might be more vulnerable to cav after the changes though, haven't tried it in new patch. Empire: 25% Legionarys, 20% Sergeant Crossbow, 20% Bucellarii, 20% Elite Cataphracts, 5% Elite Menavliations. Wait a day or two. Open your party menu with “P” or by selecting it from the menu at the bottom of the screen. Click on the “Prisoner” tab and then notice the recruit option. Either press HNEEB.