Raided Early On

[ZeroCool]

Honestly how are you supposed to deal with first raid that comes when you have two weak ass followers and the bandits that come two shot all of you then proceed to hang around your camp and kill you again when you respawn? Now that both followers are dead and I have 9 renown so cannot hire anymore and there are no quests for me at the moment to earn renown what are my options to recover from this?

I read where they are supposed to revive after a while but they don't seem to be.

[House-of-Haley]

go to an earlier save
turn coins in, might find some at interest pts to get you past this

[ZeroCool]

I jumped the gun asking for advice here I think. I must just need to wait longer. If they still don't come back I'll load a save and see if I can get past the fight on my own without them trying to help cause they are really bad fighters lol

[miamew3]

Your dead followers will respawn at your camp after a short time.
Dont forget to make sure you equip your follower with weapons, if you haven't already done so.

[smack]

you can turn down raid frequency and difficulty in the options

[Kapitänleutnant Kerensky]

Personally one other thing to do.....go out and face them.....avoid having them come into your compound - they stay about the same first 3 attacks....roughly but you get an archer in each and 2 in the 3rd attack at least I did....there is also one with a pitchfork the rest are all peons and once you start researching the clothing....if you follow one line (say Glove) it keeps improving by a little bit......my guys now are using 9 Head, 26 Tunic, 12 Pants (about to go 15), and I think 9 or 12 boots....I managed to research up to short sword but am using the saelix sae something like that? Its similar to short sword - I have one of my peons an archer since she was 2 archer already.....the game says you can lower threat if you put your peon in guard mode.....so I normally have 1 roaming my compound as a guard......its a total mess....the storage capacities of all the stuff is really crap...they should have chests as 500 minimum and the big storage facility should be 5000 because I have to keep making more chests for their pathetic 50 items (and its not 50 items if the item is large or heavy); so making a rock chest is not going to get you 50 rocks max....more like 24 or 25 tops....same with ore, rope, all the 2x1 or larger items....your biggest enemy will not be bandits....it will be the stupid micromanagement that is so bad its ridiculous. Oh and the rot of food is like Mach 2 and your hunger is WAY too fast as well - its just a tedious grind OVERALL and NOT FUN AT ALL - the housing looks like crap, the terrain needs more flat areas - I am considering just going outside of the bounds where the land is actually USABLE - I can put farms down without them constantly red due to terrain issues......I do not like being in the middle of the map since I want to be closer to mountains/ores forests.....but figure my current location is just awful - am trying to put up my main Rathaus but am finding the issue with the thatch now.....have to get straw which means have to get wheat and so far nadda.....I think one of the town way south may have something on their merchant.....oh yeah, the merchants are all useless - I wish they would have better supplies on them....most are just meat/hide/pelt type stuff and even when it RNGs the randomness is awful...weapons though or armour good luck....only the one guy at the beginning has any sort of club and arrows/quiver and pitchfork...beyond that, not seen a single other merchant carry anything worth buying.