How to add wizard/hero to my army?

[Goin’_Commando]

Well, I tried looking up how to do this and it said such other-than-helpful stuff like “click the button” & “click the buff thing”.

I just have a wizard I’d like to add to my main character’s army (Tyrion of the High Elves in this case). I can’t find find how to do this. Is it that you’re only allowed a single hero/wizard/lord per army?

Related to this, I see where other factions in the campaign have brought reinforcements in addition to their main army. However, for me that hasn’t worked. I’ve both attacked & been attacked with a second army occupying the same space or (as I’ve seen other factions also do) in an adjacent space. The enemies bring their reinforcements in these cases but I’ve never been able to do so.
So I guess that’s two different questions but as I said all I really want is to bring a wizard with me into a battle.

Thanks for any help you can give me!

[MrSoul]

do you have 20/20 units in the army?
Do you have a hero already recruited from a settlement sitting by themselves on the campaign map ready to join up?

Like far as I know you can toss heroes into your army until the roster is full(like can just have all wizards, but think agent recruitment limits put a halt so typically like I play with 2-3 heroes per army I build), but if its already fully recruited with troops, like theres a max of 20 units/heroes total for anyone army.

All should have to do, like if you're seeing 19/20 on that army is just select your hero, and right click on tyrion's army, it will bring up a dialouge box asking if you want them "scout, train" etc based on their hero type, accept that and they'll join up.

For reinforcements watch for red circles, those are your reinforcement ranges, also you may have situation if AI sieges town, and you have a second army standing beside it, the besieged army cannot reinforce your army, you have to attack with the besieged army, so what I'm imaging you saw was the AI outflank you on campaign map, ie smart tactic, besiege the town, wipe out outlying forces, take out town by itself afterwards that way you fight 1v1, not 1v2 if you tried take town first as the second army will still be able to reinforce. Some factions, namely skaven/beastmen, can ambush and/or lightening strike singular armies allowing them to ignore any possible reinforcements you can send, could be happening too.

[Dragon Master]

You have to build the right building that has a wizard hero, then recruit them in the appropriate province. They can catch up to Tyrion and embed themselves in his army once recruited.

As for reinforcements, how that works is that you need another army close enough to join the battle, whether it's the local garrison of a nearby town you own, or your enemy owns, or an actual army led by another lord.

[JeffreyFo]

Are you sure you made a wizard *hero* and not a wizard *lord*? You can only have one lord per army(since every lord leads an army), but you should be able to put heroes in no problem as long as youre not at the 20 unit cap.

[Dreagon]

You probably recruited the archmage or whatever they are called instead of a regular one. Which is a lord, not a hero. That or the army is a full stack so there is no space.

[Goin’_Commando]

Well, I just moved them to the same spot so I can add the wizard, gave all her troops to a different wizard (Looking back, I thought maybe that was what was keeping me from adding her when I tried it earlier; the game wouldn’t have allowed it since her troops would have been leaderless) then made sure there was a spot for her in the main army. But when I hit “exchange units” to hopefully add the wizard, the wizard’s portrait card is greyed out and it says “Forces cannot exchange lords”. Ugg. Plus, the wizard isn’t a lord unless I’m misunderstanding that. I certainly can’t use that unit to search ruins (which the game states requires a “lord”).

Anyone who can explain this I’d appreciate it!

[Goin’_Commando]

Ahh! Yes! It does say “Recruit Lord” at the top of that panel. So odd bc it won’t let me use it to search those ruins like I mentioned.

[Elitewrecker PT]

You can have wizard lords or wizard heroes. A hero wizard will have a popup when you right-click an army to embed it. The pop-up will say what passive bonus the hero can give to the army. If you don't get the popup it's a wizard lord, also identifiable by its ability to recruit units.

[Goin’_Commando]

I get it now. I can’t recruit heroes yet tho until I have the correct building.

Sorry & thank you all for trying to help me!

[Dreagon]

Originally posted by robert.e.hall2:

I get it now. I can’t recruit heroes yet tho until I have the correct building.

Sorry & thank you all for trying to help me!

You usually can get one relatively early through one of those random events. But yeah, you still need other buildings to get more.