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NicotiN said:

The fierdsvain are the most powerfull, don't attack them to early, they will raid and siege you until they get bored...you can loose all 3 castles in 10 days. Get at least 10 lords before...i know you will attack them now you will see

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noosers said:

If you want to befriend them in order to acquire them as vassals, you´re too late. If they haven´t got a single holding left they´re close to extinctin. Let them perish, the darned bastards.

If you fit the positive relation required before you capture a prisoner (note the -10 relation penalty for taking him prisoner) you´ll be able to recruit him after battle if you talk to him again - you´ll get a ransom option and if your relation´s good enough the recruit option.

If they´re zapping around the map with these tiny, tiny armies, it´s usually best to hunt them down with a less than 20 men cav army. Check all small minor parties as well, the last lord may have been taken prisoner by some bandit faction. Or simply wait for them to perish by themselves.

Promoting vassals as companions is a bit problematic. Lords may become upset about them if they aren´t of noble origin.
Generally, you can´t take troops off your companions. You can only give them units. Any unit given to them in a town/castle will be added to the garrison (methinks).

Which kind of troops a promoted lord gathers depends on his personal background faction and can vary greatly from NPC to NPC. This part of PoP works just as native, so once you know which NPC replaced whom from native you´ll be able to realise which troops he´ll pick up upon promotion once you know which native faction equals which PoP faction

Generally, it´s disadvisable to use companions as lords, especially if they´re ones you´d better use yourself. If it´s a totally worthless one (you never use him) it doesn´t matter. If it´s your best buddy it´s problematic because if you piss him off enough he´ll either leave your faction and desert you (means you´ll have to fight the bugger if you war his new faction) or if he goes exile, he´ll leave Pendor forever.

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noosers said:

The faction  usually was alive until the last lord/party of it (farmers, caravan) gets defeated or reaches it´s home destination (farmers, caravan!) and can´t respawn in a original factions location. If the respawn trigger fails, it takes a couple of days and the faction is declared dead. Beware though, imprisoned lords are tricky, as they count towards the faction.

You´ll need to free them to speed up the process. Even more annoying are faction lords hiding in an allied castle. It can take them forever till they leave the safety to be slaughtered.

These lords will be randomly assigned to new factions once their mother faction is dead, the king will exile and leave forever. The rest will join the other Empires every few days.

In MnB it didn´t matter wether or not the lord got a holding once he joined, he´d be around forever. WB is far more tricky. If a lord does not get a fief fast, he´ll become annoyed and if he´s pissed off enough, he´ll leave your faction and join another. So ensure to deal out fiefs to all your lords. The great sideffect apart from keeping them happy is making them rich which has a huge influence on their actual party size and troop quality compared to native WB or MnBoP. (Mainly because the AI lords are able to build improvements on their own now!).

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Summa said:

I had a rough time getting started as well. I ended up hanging out in the Ravenstern areas and just took it easy and slowly gained more experienced troops from the bandits in the area. I honestly have a better time establishing myself rather than later in the game when you got all the top notch troops.

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NicotiN said:

It's in the camp menu, pop options....but if you don't see the complaints that doesn't mean they don't happen....you will get messages on the screen that x doesn't like y.

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