How do you disband a party?

[OldGamer]

So I have created a party with a companion leading them. I also created another since that one for a caravan. the first one is just like me, going around beating up bandits, yet doesn't seem to pay for himself? Anyway, I want to dissolve that one just until the caravan makes me some cash daily.

I have already made some recruits jobless, hopefully they stay in the town I dismissed them in, because hopefully there will be better bounty like i had in the past! I was making 15k per fight, now I am going backwards after shelling 15k for a caravan it seems.

Any help is appreciated.

[sargon162]

You have to disband the party in the clan menu, the group will go to the nearest city, you have to get there and talk to the commander of the party and take all the soldiers from him, then return the commander to his group in the clan menu, otherwise he starts recruiting again after some time.

[peterspam]

Here's my story of experimenting with disbanding additional parties (to forego worse during end-game):
The companion you assigned to a further party has funds and will keep recruiting until you remove all recruits from its party. This can be a bit tricky, as removing troops will give you a speed penalty and the companion will immediately start recruiting again, especially when inside a town. Then when you wait for it to move out so you can disband the party, you cannot catch up due to the speed limit, which means the companion reaches the next town and starts recruiting, this may go on for a while before it runs out of funds.

Step by step, the process takes a few game days (a few to follow the companion and 3 more so it regroups, once the party is disbanded):
1. Not sure how the funding algorithm works (and whether it "dries out" without your support), but best to immediately cut funds to the party you want to disband, so the leader cannot recruit any more troops. You can do this by going to the Clan menu, Parties tab, click on the party in question and reduce the "Party Wage" slider to the minimum (after unticking "Unlimited Wage").
2. Click on the circular symbol next to "[your companion's name]'s Party", called "Change Party Leader". Choose the option "Disband Party". It tells you that it will now merge into a near clan party and go to the nearest map faction settlement and join its garrison. If you check the party again, it will now say "Disbanding" (though it still has funding), so you're not there yet and you cannot pull the member back into your party just yet.
3. Step out of the menu and interact with the companion physically (you need to be located at the same spot on the map), it will tell you where it's headed to disband the party. Follow it.
4. Follow the party leader to where it goes (or use Heroes menu if you lost it, see where it was last) and take all recruits from it as soon as you can. Each time you meet&greet when it recruited new troops, it will tell you happily that it's disbanding, but you need to take the troops off it (and best to get rid of them right away to avoid speed penalty). You will see that you cannot merge it back into your main party yet, as in the Clan menu it will say "[X] is leading a party right now" when you try to click the recall button.
5. Disband all troops you took immediately (or if in a city, sell/donate them) so they do not slow you down during this foxhunt.
6. Follow party leader and keep trying to dissolve the party once it has no more funds to recruit any more new troops (if you catch up with it in time, that is..). You will know the difference, because until it has funds, it will always be visible at the village/town border where it recruits and you will see how many troops it recruited. Once it no longer does so, it will disappear and reemerge somewhere else on the map. I tried two versions of disbanding and the results differ, probably due to funds: first time it took only one village, second time 3 villages before the companion disappeared.
7. Once it disappears, you can go the Clan menu, click on the companion where it states "Holding" and click on the recall symbol. It will state how long it takes for the companion to arrive at your party (distance is probably irrelevant as it takes 3 days for short or huge distance) and it will automatically appear again in your companion (or family) list. Spot on third day, the companion joins your party again (you will see it when your party counter goes up, in case you're underway).

I'm guessing here on the algorithms used, but my advice would be BEFORE this whole debacle that when you START a fresh party, assign the companion WITHOUT a horse or give it the slowest horse available. I don't know if AI in a party can buy horses for themselves or even upgrade, but if speed is a fixed thing based on initial equipment then maybe worth keeping this in mind. If you can slow it down, chasing it all over the map is not necessary and you can deplete it from recruits once it's somewhere in the countryside and no fresh recruits are available.

[peterspam]

Publicado originalmente por sargon162:

You have to disband the party in the clan menu, the group will go to the nearest city, you have to get there and talk to the commander of the party and take all the soldiers from him, then return the commander to his group in the clan menu, otherwise he starts recruiting again after some time.

Taking troops off its hand did not solve it for me right away: it kept travelling to recruit more and did not disband while it still had troops with it. I tried two different ways and both times you need to keep following it and take away its troops, before it finally "gives up" recruiting and disappears. Then you can click on recall to your party as I described in my longer comment.

[Skiddy]

its so weird. If you disband a party, I had a companion just run into enemy territory and get captured. Watched him just run around their lands for a while until finally a large party cornered him