How to take out Raider camps (tutorial)

[VANGHART]

1. Approach the camp with 12 soldiers wearing ranged weapons, shields, swords and Platemail armor.
2. Lure a few of the raiders to chase you away from the camp by marking the soldiers and controlling them manually. Have raiders chase you away from their tower range. Sometimes one or a few will chase and will be an easy prey. Kill the few and repeat until there's only a few left.
4. Take out the rest of the raiders outside tower range.
5. Approach a tower and take out the towers one by one.
6. Finally take out the camp and loot will appear.
7. Soldiers can return home and an available Laborer from the town will collect the loot on the ground.
8. The Raider camp is eliminated and will not return on the same location.

[garthurbrown]

I usually use about 5 soldiers with hauberks. Or two soldiers and 4 guards.

[Alexaraas]

That sounds great, except my laborers never pick up the loot? And then a year, maybe two, later all the loot just disappears? What do I do???

[jomak67]

On trailblazer, you need 12 soldiers with ranged weapons, sword, shield, hauberks.
Place the rally point in the middle of the raider camp, and the soldiers take care of it without fatalities.
They still win without the Hauberks, but expect 1-2 fatalities.

you can also win without shields, but then you should also send 3-4 hunters,and expect to lose 6-8 soldiers/hunters.

For the higher difficulties.. its more tricky.

[Zarubine]

Hmmm, this doesn't seem to work for me. 12 soldiers, all with hauberks, swords, shields, crossbows. They can take the enemy soldiers no problem, either by luring them out or just zerg. But by the time they enemy is dead, my soldiers have somehow lost all armour, weapons, etc. and have to raze the camp/towers without any protection. Needless to say that doesn't end well.

Is that working as intended? I.e. are the swords, armour, etc. supposed to last through less than say 8 enemies?