You’ll often find small parties of trained mercenaries willing to join your cause but they will generally demand a substantial fee for their services. You can also recruit trained troops from taverns in towns. Each man you recruit from a village will be an untrained raw recruit, they will cost you 10 gold each and they will be poorly equipped and fairly useless in battle. You can recruit men for a small fee by entering any village and selecting the Recruit Volunteers option. These characters are the same as you in that they cannot be killed on the field of battle, only knocked unconscious, and they have the potential to be tougher than basic soldiers and to serve your cause in other ways. It is always a good idea to recruit a few heroes. You should be careful about which characters you recruit because it is easy to upset the balance of your party and personality clashes will lead to moaning and arguments in your party and have a negative effect on morale. You’ll find them lurking in taverns and while some will join up for free, others will want a payment of some kind. These characters have personalities, back stories and they can be upgraded and equipped in the same way that you are.
There are various hero characters that you can recruit spread across Calradia. The rest of the series can be found at the end of this article. To start at the beginning of the guide, check out the Guide to Mount and Blade. This article is part of a series on Mount and Blade.
