recruiting soldiers

[polela2]

How do you recruit soldiers? I have gotten to that spot and do not know what to do.

[Graygan]

Click on your fort/stockade/outpost/whatever you call it... Then click on assign available villagers.

Suggestion... Make sure you have unemployed villagers or it will recruit villagers who already have jobs.

[Blue Winged King Fisher]

First build the Barracks to house at least 30 soldiers. build the Keep in a area where you can expand it and don't forget to allocate dorms to increase the barrack size to house your army. Once done recruit all the new arrivals until you have 20- 25 and equipping them with swords as you recruit. don't do any missions until you have swords available to give your Soldiers/ build training dummies in the mix of buildings around the out side they will auto train themselves to a max of 4 strength. check training in the mission page (crossed swords ) train with a min of at lest 20 soldiers to send on a easy mission read the mission out come you want an extreme win after battles are won you can promote them to next lvl as long as they have required XP at the end of each month free like you do with town folk. To give your soldiers swords / open the mission tab / click by each recruit next to a smalls square opens up the sword icon and click to equip to soldier. Don't rush into doing the missions prepare them first.as it take a lot of time to recruit / train and buy swords if you are not crafting swords yet buy through trade. you want your soldiers to come home even if wounded rest and revive promote and resend on next mission this will slowly build a strong army. hope this info helps

[polela2]

thank you all for your help

[Bored Peon]

The easy way to level your soldiers is this:
Set up a fort for 18 soldiers.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1994572943
3 dorms of 6, and 18 training dummies.

Easy mission, send 6 soldiers (can probably do 5 ) and the first stage should be extreme success, the second stage should be extreme success (unless unlucky), then the third stage should be below extreme, send them back.

Keep doing that until you reach Novice 6 and promote them to being a soldier. At that point you should get the idea of only continue if the chance of success is extreme.

Difficult missions send 9 soldiers, start equipping the spears you get to make next difficulty easier.

Extremely difficult send 18 soldier (Soldier 6)

You might be able to use a bit less, but I prefer it this way.

4 soldiers 6s can do all 3 stages of easy mission.