Villagers! What are they good for?

[Roger Mexico]

Do the Villagers eventually get better weapons, or do you just dismiss them as you replace them with Militia?

[namboo]

In this build, you are responsible with supplying people with better weapons. You'll eventually get a ton from fighting bandits/ joining a faction to fight another faction. The main problem with villagers is their low marksmanship skill which does not really allow them to wield better weapons unless they are a really high level. In that case militia is better.

[Melamori]

Its' good to hire them from the beginning if you want to have bigger army, and also when they level up can get better weapons, usually I use them like garrison

[JackChance]

Originally posted by evamelamori:

Its' good to hire them from the beginning if you want to have bigger army, and also when they level up can get better weapons, usually I use them like garrison

This basically. I used them early game to add meat to my army and phased them out once I could reliably get militia and bodyguards instead, which really only takes a handful of successful battles.

[Priest]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1736061406
(my current tests if they are more worth with max level, well need some more time until lvl 15)

[Jeffrey]

As a response to the post above, villager stats at lvl 15:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1739285507
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1739285461

Notably, lvl 15 villagers have pretty mediocre stats aside from a fairly decent speed. Their marksmanship allows them to use most non-black market guns (except rifles), and inherent proficiencies steer them towards SMGs (females), LMGs (males) or rifles (both). They also don't reach 6 marksmanship until about level 8-9, severely limiting their weapon choices.

As a comparison, militia have much higher stats:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1739293445
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1739293392

Allowing them to equip any firearm currently in the game, and reaching max proficiency for SMGs (female), rifles (male) and assault rifles (male) at around level 12-13.

Militia have an upkeep of 13-18 per day, as opposed to 8-9 for villagers, and typically cost 2-2.5k to recruit, compared to the 500-700 for villagers. I therefore advise to replace your villagers with militia asap if you can fit it into your budget, as their military potential is much greater at only a slightly higher cost.

tl;dr use villagers if broke, otherwise use militia.

[Priest]

Well i can add the VFA female fighter so we have the most important lvl 15 females
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1739329125

VFA Fighter, Militia, Villager
Health: 251,280,224
Marksmanship:15,14,9
Speed:1.1 ,1.1 ,1.2
Sight:4,4,3
Wage:120,13,8
Rifle 100,84,84
Assault rifle 100,56,28


And btw thanks jeffrey, you spared me much time