How to control second party?

[Roy]

So i created a "new party" thinking it would follow me, or do quests when I told it to.
NOPE! Just goes around wasting my money. How do I make use of a second party?

[Sean]

Click on Kingdom -> Armies - then press create army and find the guy in your clan it won't cost influence but they will follow you for a set amount of time before your cohesion kicks them out.

[Roy]

I don't have a kingdom yet.

[[L9] spartank]

Originally posted by Bob Lee Storbæk:

I don't have a kingdom yet.

I think he ment clan, because I see the parties window for the clan menu

[mooosin]

cant really do anything with them unless you're a vassal of a kingdom. if you're not a vassal then the most you can do is just take troops out of their party

[Roy]

Now I'm in a kingdom yet can't create a second party as it says "no heroes available to lead" or something to that effect, even though I do have companions with me who aren't assigned to anything.

[Come at me Bro]

Creating a party is in clan, making them follow you is creating an army when you are a vassal at level 3 clan in Kingdom tab.

[syerup ツ]

You need to have a kingdom and have the Marshal policy. In the policies tab.

[dragon_2542]

That's retarded. I don't have a Kingdom so why let me make a second party if there's absolutely nothing I can do with it? Annoying af..

[DemonXKD]

Originally posted by dragon_2542:

That's retarded. I don't have a Kingdom so why let me make a second party if there's absolutely nothing I can do with it? Annoying af..

well you can't order them but they will fight bandits along the way and if you pay attention to the income you'll notice that it's not always a loss of money. the more they end up fighting the more money they themselves earn which in turn lowers the wage from your own pocket and sometimes even gives you some income so in a way it's a two way knife if you only look at money BUT the party/ies are part of your clan so when they beat some bandits or complete a quest(extra parties when you have a settlement will resolve issues from those villages from time to time when they go there so i'm assuming they might do the same when not a part of one) so they make it faster for you to increase your clan level even if just slightly

[dragon_2542]

Originally posted by DemonXKD:

well you can't order them but they will fight bandits along the way......

I jumped the gun on that. I thought they would just sit there and do nothing but they move around and do stuff. So, that actually makes a lot of sense. Pretty neat functionality.
Thanks for the reply.

[SievertChaser]

Originally posted by dragon_2542:

Originally posted by DemonXKD:

well you can't order them but they will fight bandits along the way......

I jumped the gun on that. I thought they would just sit there and do nothing but they move around and do stuff. So, that actually makes a lot of sense. Pretty neat functionality.
Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, basically it's just an NPC party, which is only just as idiotic as the NPCs. You can then include them into your army without paying Influence. If you have your own kingdom you can set the stance for all oarties simultaneously... and that's it.

[Cggamer]

I was wondering this myself. Is there no way to detach a companion and party to, say, go recruit troops and return? Or go collect food resupply and return? Or go patrol my fief while I go across the map to fight a war?

[SievertChaser]

Originally posted by Cg_gamer:

I was wondering this myself. Is there no way to detach a companion and party to, say, go recruit troops and return? Or go collect food resupply and return? Or go patrol my fief while I go across the map to fight a war?

Not in vanilla.