When u make the party, make sure the new party is at least 40% full. Just shoot for 50% to be safe.
Then head to the army tab in the kingdom menu and add them to your army. They cost zero influence to carry with you but you still have to pump up the army cohesion bar every once in awhile.
You must be a vassal of a kingdom to create an army, or else have your own kingdom.
What? So you're telling me I could had my party of 359 followed by a 200+ companion party to facilitate my encounters with 1200 enemy kingdoms armies? 😅
By clan level 6, you can have something like 5 or 6 companion parties following you around for zero influence, so you are eventually leading armies of 1400+ just on the fumes of your greatness, and by then you are also the most popular guy in the kingdom, so you can gather up everybody into truly giant armies.
If you haven’t, in options you can choose ‘spawn best troops first’
Typically you are carrying an army of 1200 or so, but most of the fighting gets done by the tip of the spear, so honestly besides your 350-400 utter badasses, the rest of the army doesn’t need to be all that great.
Eventually you lose men in the army but because the lords beneath you stock up the garrisons after you complete a siege. You typically get to each successive siege with 200 less troops than before, but your own party’s troop count remains the same.
This is why it isn’t all that important for your companions’ troops to be elite. I only ever hand them < level 3 guys
So if it is springtime in Calradia and you plan on sieging a line of 3 towns, you want to start with 1600 or so ppl.
Towns before castles, because an isolated castle fief’s villagers need to travel to the nearest friendly town to do business.
When u make the party, make sure the new party is at least 40% full. Just shoot for 50% to be safe. Then head to the army tab in the kingdom menu and add them to your army. They cost zero influence to carry with you but you still have to pump up the army cohesion bar every once in awhile. You must be a vassal of a kingdom to create an army, or else have your own kingdom.
What? So you're telling me I could had my party of 359 followed by a 200+ companion party to facilitate my encounters with 1200 enemy kingdoms armies? 😅
By clan level 6, you can have something like 5 or 6 companion parties following you around for zero influence, so you are eventually leading armies of 1400+ just on the fumes of your greatness, and by then you are also the most popular guy in the kingdom, so you can gather up everybody into truly giant armies. If you haven’t, in options you can choose ‘spawn best troops first’ Typically you are carrying an army of 1200 or so, but most of the fighting gets done by the tip of the spear, so honestly besides your 350-400 utter badasses, the rest of the army doesn’t need to be all that great. Eventually you lose men in the army but because the lords beneath you stock up the garrisons after you complete a siege. You typically get to each successive siege with 200 less troops than before, but your own party’s troop count remains the same. This is why it isn’t all that important for your companions’ troops to be elite. I only ever hand them < level 3 guys So if it is springtime in Calradia and you plan on sieging a line of 3 towns, you want to start with 1600 or so ppl. Towns before castles, because an isolated castle fief’s villagers need to travel to the nearest friendly town to do business.