surviving first raid.

[BobOnix]

if you want to survive first raid, buy a cheap mercenary group "thugs", and the attacking bandits will target them first, lead them a couple of regions away, and when the mercs die the bandits will just walk around and set up camps become normal bandits ignoring your village.

for second raid, if the other lord has there army out they will target the bandits, all you'll have to do is buy time (this one needs further testing) or just do the same as previous.

I never got raided after that.