Play as a real Soldier/mercenary

[Jarl Ballin']

Hey guys,

am I the only one who wants to play as a real mercenary? Nothing read about it yet. I mean to have the possibility to offer your service as a sellword to a lord and join his group (not army). You got rank, food, equipment and payment based on your level/skills. After one month the contract ends and can be renewed if you want. Or via dialogue option you can ask (perhaps barter if lord is not honourable or smth. like that) to retire.

Also the possibility to join every faction. The minor factions, too. Join one of the mercenary bands as a mercenary character would we pretty nice. It also adds a new way to get started in-game. Beside farming looters and trade, you got everything while you are a simple soldier/mercenary. Not that much, but you can survive and dont have to maintain an own group.

After collecting some coin to get started you can leave or got promoted by the groupleader/lord to a higher rank. This means more money, better equipment and so on.
If you leave you have to give back the equipment.

I know this mechanic from the ASOIAF Mod (Game of Thrones) for Warband. Was pretty nice to play.

So what do you guys think?

 

[SmattlePattle]

That system was a little thing every single mod included for a reason. I wish TW would notice that if a feature is included in like every mod, from high-fantasy to historical realism, it might just be a good base feature.

 

[mr_nifty]

Yea this would be great.

 

[Owen Wulfson]

My only problem with this system when it was in Warband was that, when wounded, the player had no recourse but to recover his or her own health while the lord continued campaigning. This negated the desire to charge into combat which, though realistically sensible, was not fun. The player could recruit a companion doctor while staying at a town, but this detracted from the whole "I'm a soldier in an army" vibe.

 

[Dean Beecham]

yes would like to see this in the game with out having to mod it when they are ready.and yes played many mods in WB with this loved it.

 

[Artiom]

This would be nice and i think it would be nice if you stayed some time with the lord and respects you, that you get control over the archers or infantry for example( like when you are in an army).