Increasing Army size

[oldbear60]

I have looked for and fiddled with army creation....how do you increase the size of a created army? And why does it disappear so quickly?

[BrowneHawk]

Sounds like you didn't play tutorial. I'd run through it again. You need the barracks building, holds 10 warriors per. You also need to ensure you have enough food and alcohol or else they get mad and leave.

[oldbear60]

Have Barracks etc...just trying to find out how to increase an army already in place...going from say 4 soldiers to say 7.....

[spekt3r]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3402256042

villigers might be to happy to join. (and fanatics require a blessing of ur lord by the bishop)
prisioners always join but are unskilled.
mercs cost a lot of cash. (warrior tax is calculated by combat skill at point of hire)

[BrowneHawk]

Originally posted by darrelpantalone:

Have Barracks etc...just trying to find out how to increase an army already in place...going from say 4 soldiers to say 7.....

I will normally wait for the caravan to show up, I buy any slave now called prisoners under the age of 30 and I'll recruit them into the army. They have a negative debuff at first for joining the army but they get over it. This way you can have you immigrants working your buildings and your not losing them to army recruitment.

The next option is buying prisoners from Bandits, or the other camp events where you pay money to recruit bandits. Both options give a -7 relations to church and neighbors.

Or with the army you do have, you take out some bandit camps and hopefully take home some prisoners from it. Then recruit them into the army.

You will also get immigration events from wars or famine, which can be a great chance to fill out your armies numbers because your better off recruiting them for the army instead of them turning criminal.

[Riepah]

Originally posted by darrelpantalone:

Have Barracks etc...just trying to find out how to increase an army already in place...going from say 4 soldiers to say 7.....

If you mean an already formed squad, I am not sure that can be done. I tend to disband and recreate them when I want to add more soldiers.

[Daliena]

Originally posted by BrowneHawk:

Or with the army you do have, you take out some bandit camps and hopefully take home some prisoners from it. Then recruit them into the army.

Better to be a little careful with this one. Bandits taken as prisoner, then recruited into the army, have a permanent mood penalty, which makes them worse fighters (lower morale) and more likely to refuse orders to patrol during peacetime, or even desert and leave you entirely.

[oldbear60]

thank you