How important is leadership?

[Dyingdignity]

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How important is leadership in Warband, considering it detracts from your combat skills? I'd say it's very important but the cost of raising it to 10 is very high...

 

[Captured Joe]

AFAIK, the skill doesn't detract points of your combat skills.
It is an important skill if you want to manage bigger parties; It gives room for more soldiers in your party, it gives a morale point, and it decreases the soldiers' salary costs.

 

[Dyingdignity]

AFAIK, the skill doesn't detract points of your combat skills.

I meant it as in during the early game, it uses up the points that you could instead put into combat skills (mostly the points going into charisma instead of strength/agility)

But okay, it seems that it is rather important to progress so I'll just have to make do with it and hope I don't get killed constantly, thanks

 

[Captured Joe]

Wait, you're at the start of your game?
I advise to focus on fighting skills first at the start, and later decide if you want to be a 'leadership-style' commander (for a larger army), to raise your leadership, or, if you want to kill more enemies yourself, focus on the fighting skills more.

 

[Dyingdignity]

Ah okay. Thank you. I'll do that

 

[Ludial]

How important is Ld? It's essential. In early game? Not particularly. Then again I manage to do damage with my commander char even though his STR and AGI are only at 9 (which means that I have most of my combat skills as high as I need them at level 1). The question is, how important are combat skills to you personally. Set yourself a limit which you found reasonable, level your combat skills up to that limit before you do anything else, then level INT and CHAR.