November 18, 2022. The life of a mercenary is not for everyone, and it shouldn’t be yours in Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord. If you have fought too many enemies for a kingdom and feel that it is time to find something different to do, you can easily stop being a mercenary at any point in time. 140 votes, 70 comments. 151K subscribers in the Bannerlord community. The subreddit for all things dedicated to Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord. Being fast is the key to choosing your battles. If you are a mercenary and you see the merchants of an enemy faction, they can be good pickings as long as you can defeat their strong escorts. There are times you can herd them into places they can't retreat from you, but usually it's a while before you can outrun them. srgg. Mercenary contracts NEVER expire and breaking them incurs all the same penalties as breaking vassalage. On top of that they pay virtually nothing. Your options are: 1) Break the contract and have that entire faction hate you probably forever. 2) Become a vassal since there is no benefit to being a mercenary. Steward skill - don't make my mistake! Bannerlord. Make sure you have at least 1 focus point assigned to the Steward skill in the early game, unless of course your character starts with some learning rate already. I thought I'd leave the skill alone as I was just being a mercenary and didn't need to own any settlements. Defensive sieges were one of the best parts about Warband but these are very hard to come across in Bannerlord. Currently (as of 1.3 and 1.4), the AI only attacks a castle when they have an extreme advantage, which means that if you manage to get into the castle before the AI begins it's siege, you're going to lose the battle. So i just noticed, that i am still paying daily payment to mercenaries even if i dont have a songle one of them. Few days ago (ingame) i took quest from some lord who asked me to sell his mercenaries to another lord. So i took them, i found new lord, persuaded him to buy those mercenaries from me. He agreed, i got mine 1600 denar from him, but Open comment sort options. Pay them tribute, or chop chop on the executioners block. If that is not possible as you are a vassal, create clan parties, 50 man, and make them full cav. Place them in defensive way (in clan window on party there is a selection of capping recruitment and upgrades to specific cost as well as setting them to neugral

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