Iron lung on poor recruit

[Centipede]

Hi, I'm only on my second longer playthrough. I kept hearing about iron lung being a great perk, is it worth keeping a recruit that doesn't seem too good if he has it?

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[UnluckyNoob]

Iron lungs is mainly good for fatigue neutral duelist builds.

Bro from sreenshot may be decent early game bannerman but that's it.

[Centipede]

Thanks, I think I have a better backup sergeant to train so I guess not worth keeping this guy.

[Heron]

Find him a Mansplitter. pick Axe Mastery and Adrenaline and stack as much matk, HP and fatigue as possible. He'll probably die, but you'll have fun in the process.

[A5G_Reaper]

Iron lungs was top tier back when fatigue was everything. This was about 3 major patches ago. These days it's still a good trait, but not quite the holy grail that it once was.

These days the primary use is to enable non-standard fatigue neutral build. Fatigue neutral is basically builds that only use as much fatigue as the bro naturally regen each turn. Regular bros regen 15, iron lungs bro regen 18. This does enables a lot of things, such as allowing sword/spear with mastery to attack twice, or to use orc twohander and still move once with pathfinder and mastery, and a lot more with named weapons involving reduced fatigue cost.

For that bro in question, eeh the stats left a lot to be desired. Maybe if you got a named shield with -cost, then he can perma-shieldwall and be a pretty good roadblock for quite some time. But otherwise it's better off to start hiring and training up someone with reliable potential seeing how you have near full company already.

[Glorious Comrade]

He has negative defense and no star, so 2 hander is not good.

Give him spear + shield, with weapon mastery and iron lung he can swing twice every turn.

Put all points into Resolve, and health, melee attack or defense whichever is higher.

He will be quite effective at just routing people as a tank.

[Centipede]

Thanks, I wanted to make him a backup sergeant for emergencies but goblins chopped his head off.

[DT]

Good to hear that OP got his problem solved with some help from goblin.