How do I spawn more Champions?

[Lampros]

I have the Bounty Hunter Retinue, but I've only gotten 1 spawn in the first 150 days or so. Do I need to hit 3 star quests?

[PK_Thunder]

3 star quests definitely help, because they respawn the contents of the camp. In general, if you see a 3 star quest, delay it and see if you can track down the camp. If the camp doesn't have a champion in it, go back to town and accept the quest.

Other than that it's a matter of exploring aggressively and just plain old RNG. My recent barbarians playthrough has three named weapons by day 50, all from champs. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't.

[Whatever100500]

Just go around the orc/goblin wilderness, north or desert looking for large camps. Can't say there are too many even with BH, but about a third of large camps will have champs.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by Whatever100500:

Just go around the orc/goblin wilderness, north or desert looking for large camps. Can't say there are too many even with BH, but about a third of large camps will have champs.

Orc and Goblin items suck though for the most part :(

[Hans]

Originally posted by PK_Thunder:

3 star quests definitely help, because they respawn the contents of the camp. In general, if you see a 3 star quest, delay it and see if you can track down the camp. If the camp doesn't have a champion in it, go back to town and accept the quest.

Other than that it's a matter of exploring aggressively and just plain old RNG. My recent barbarians playthrough has three named weapons by day 50, all from champs. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't.

I feel you on the RNG aspect, my last game I retired with 6 legendaries from champions/camps on day 117. In my new play through, I'm on day 73 and I haven't found drek.

[PK_Thunder]

Originally posted by Arngrim:

Originally posted by PK_Thunder:

3 star quests definitely help, because they respawn the contents of the camp. In general, if you see a 3 star quest, delay it and see if you can track down the camp. If the camp doesn't have a champion in it, go back to town and accept the quest.

Other than that it's a matter of exploring aggressively and just plain old RNG. My recent barbarians playthrough has three named weapons by day 50, all from champs. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't.

I feel you on the RNG aspect, my last game I retired with 6 legendaries from champions/camps on day 117. In my new play through, I'm on day 73 and I haven't found drek.

This is especially painful because some builds straight up require named weapons. Your average 2 handed mace user can get by at all stages of the game with just the vanilla T3 weapon.

An axe or sword duelist most definitely cannot. The hard choice is to either spec a bro for it without the weapon he needs, or else don't spec one out, and try to build a bro up once you find the weapon. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[Moist Butt]

Originally posted by Lampros:

I have the Bounty Hunter Retinue, but I've only gotten 1 spawn in the first 150 days or so. Do I need to hit 3 star quests?

its very RNG, but it does help for sure. I have seen 3 champions once with a small force. Pretty sure this was cuz of bounty hunter.

[suejak]

You have to know how the game is rolling. It doesn't just add champs to random encounters; it rolls on every valid archetype to see whether they will be a champion.

Here are the core rates post-day 100: https://battlebrothers.fandom.com/wiki/Champions

I think the BH gives +3 to each of those numbers.

So that would mean every swordmaster you see in the world does a roll for 5% to check whether he's a champion.

The reason people see so many goblin champs is that their core archetypes can roll as champs, which means there are tons of rolls going on.

If you want a higher chance, you need to seek out chosen, orc warriors, goblins, and honor guards. Camps or contracts full of these guys will mean lots of rolls at 4-5% or so.

3-skull contracts can also boost your chances by about +5% per archetype already in the contract (IIRC - all of these numbers are just from memory). Again, the Bounty Hunter will not add extra champions on top, so if there are no valid archetypes in your contract, then the boost is meaningless.