

While in town,s you need to “Go to the Keep” first in order to find this option. In castles, you’ll find the “Manage Garrison” option presented to you directly when you click on a castle. The space available on walls can be pretty tight, and there isn’t enough for polearm users here, so bear that in mind. On castle walls, archers can be the better option, due to troops being typically larger in number, and preferring to stay in a shorter range, while climbing your walls.Īnother recommendation is to use heavily armored units, and ones with fast, one handed weapons. Troop units have varying efficiency in wall defense during sieges.

This requires you to recruit a fair amount of troops, train them increase their level, and place them there for maximum defense. But typically, garrisons can be huge, and can be two, three or four times the average size of your army.

The maximum garrison size can vary from castle to castle, and is affected by many factors, the castle projects are one of them. These can be good starter troops, but you will also need to add your own as well. Before the vote for the castle owner is determined, the army leader who took the castle might put a small portion of his troops as part of the garrison. These are troops you and other lords can place manually in the castle or town.

There are two types of Troops that can defend a castle, Garrison and Militia Troops. To ensure a firm grasp on your new domain, you will need troops to occupy and defend the castle in your absence. Now we will cover picking our pace, and explain more about managing your first settlement, making the best use of resources available, and using diplomacy in your favor.Īfter taking a castle or town, the very first thing you have to worry about, is to not lose it. In our previous Getting Started Guide Part 3, we joined a faction, captured a settlement, and used our Influence to get the settlement for ourselves. Settlements in Mount And Blade II Bannerlord: Getting Started Guide Part 4 In this Settlements in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Getting Started Guide Part 4, we will go over managing your settlements, defending it, using diplomacy to expand, and more. Even players who are veterans of Mount and Blade: Warband may find themselves overwhelmed, so we’ve decided to put together a series of guides, showing you a few things that might just make getting started, that bit easier for you. Mount & Blade II Bannerlord can be a very challenging game, and there is a steep learning curve, especially at the beginning.
