Followers not entering battle with me?

[Bacchus451]

I've been Vaegir marshall for some time now, but I think the next time I'm up for election I'm going to deny it because whenever I seige a castle and have followers with me, they just sit there and do not join in the attack when I go in. I have no idea why this is happening now, it never did before.

Any ideas?

 

[Danath]

Are you sending your soldiers to attack? Lords won't help.
If you are attacking personally, they don't join if they dislike you

 

[Bacchus451]

I figured that since I was the marshall the ****ers would do what I said no matter what. I'll check on my relations with them.

Does honor play in to my relations with them or their decision to join in?

 

[djude]

I figured that since I was the marshall the ****ers would do what I said no matter what. I'll check on my relations with them.

Does honor play in to my relations with them or their decision to join in?

not quite sure what honor plays in relations to lords, but if you talk to them and ask they follow, they'll say yes/no
if they say yes they should follow you into the battle.

 

[Temeraire]

the lords have very bad cases of A.D.D they will lose intrest in you and go after anything that they see infront of them.

 

[stygN]

Being a marshal does not give you ultimate power.. IMO it needs to be fixed. But lets not talk about that, lets rather talk about the subject here and I'll try to explain a bit.

Skirmishes: This is just a checkup. Do they join you in normal battles, but not in sieges?

Not joining in battle: I've heard that you have to have +5 in relationship (or higher) with the lords that follow you in order for them to help you in battle. This rule apply both in regular skirmishes and in sieges. You can get a lord with -20 in relationship to follow you, but he will not join you in combat.

Not following you: Several reasons. They could be distracted and start to follow a caravan or village farmers, or even bandits, you cant do anything with this. They could also decide not to follow you anymore. This happened several times when I was marshall and had a big campaign. And it even happened at the very start of the campaign, where all armies were fresh, no wounded or anything. And some of the lords who turned around had over +60 in relationship with me. I do not know why they turn back, but they do. Again, there is nothing to do about this except to turn around, hunt them down and order them once more to follow you.

All in all, you do not have full controll over your allied lords. This might be hard to fix too, it could be a mayor issue. And the developers might work on it and try to fix it for Warband (Warband will be singleplayer too, right...? I might be very wrong).

 

[Bacchus451]

It was the relationships that was the problem here. It seemed as though that as long as they weren't negative they would join in battle with me, so I found a few guys that didn't hate me and finally finished off the Rhodoks entirely. Took me a long time though, as it is my first play through - Day 450ish.

Thanks everyone

 

[Mabons]

(Warband will be singleplayer too, right...? I might be very wrong).

Yes.

 

[Stubb]

In sieges, I find that if you first make sure they stand very close to the castle/town, then tell them to follow you again, then immediately start building siege, there's a slightly bigger chance they'll stick around.
Also, check that everyone joins you in battle when you first start building siege. If not, they'll just disappear.

When I'm waiting for siege works to be finished, I often lose fellows, but then only to enemy lord parties. So I either raid around and capture as many enemy lords I can or bother to before starting siege campains, or I start at the outskirt castles and work my way in. When they run out of places to seek refuge, they tend to stick around in castles more.