Bandit Raids

[Phekhaa]

Hey guys, is there a way to defend bandits raiding my resources? I have no idea how the Military works, I have not enough people for a full unit, everything is red, doesn't make sense. Does the Militia do anything to defend my town or is the only way to get rid of bandits to attack them?

[ickabod27]

Build your manor and towers around it. I tried to form a militia in my first game and they got killed. After that the bandits burned the village.

[Tenoshii]

The only way to stop a bandit raid is to destroy their camp. So either you have to send forces out to kill the bandits and destroy the camp or you can wait for the AI Lord to take them out directly or take them out indirectly by claiming the region.

[warbeetle]

Originally posted by Phekhaa:

Hey guys, is there a way to defend bandits raiding my resources? I have no idea how the Military works, I have not enough people for a full unit, everything is red, doesn't make sense. Does the Militia do anything to defend my town or is the only way to get rid of bandits to attack them?

The only function I have been able to use so far is that the gatehouse will basically disrupt enemy morale by disruptinge enemy formations while they try to squeeze through that bottleneck when you place your units(militia and personal guard) inside the walled area. A Personal guard of 24 can hold 4 groups of 16 Bandits without many losses. Bowmilitia will fire over walls but they are hard to position while the enemy is moving close to the walls. In melee bowmen are rubbish so it is better to rely on militia spearmen as a addition to the personal retinue. Bandit paths are very direct from the point of entering the map to your forces so you can prepare ambushs and waiting defensive lines better in an open field than between your buildings. As bandit armys will only plunder your village when they have defeated your troops you can concentrate on tactical positioning rahter than defending homes and villagers.

Bandits stealing from your stock are different but easier: march out to destroy their camps and fight those 16men groups one by one if there are multiple camps. Destroy those camps to regain wealth.

[Catteus Of Mars]

if you wait a bit AI will aggro the bandits and you can just walk over to empty camp and bank the monies :3

[Tenoshii]

Originally posted by Catteus Of Mars:

if you wait a bit AI will aggro the bandits and you can just walk over to empty camp and bank the monies :3

Funny story about this...

So I'm in the process of getting attacked by the second Bandit Raid, at this point the AI Lord has control of all areas of the map except mine and one other region. The bandits spawn inside the AI Lord's territory and adjacent to mine and starts moving toward my region. The AI Lord then summons an army to kill the bandits. The AI Lord loses (they brought 3 groups and the bandits had 4).

Instead of immediately proceeding back to my region to attack, the bandits walk around in a circle (or back and forth) for a while and then place 3 bandit camps at their location on the map. I then send my Retinue out to kill the bandits and then loot all three of their camps for roughly 450 treasury wealth