Ridiculous bandit party sizes

[hadesknorr]

Now, I'm not sure if this problem affects only this mod or if it is a general problem. I'm level 38 and a happened to cross a sea raider party which had more than 1500 men.
Is this normal? How about a limit to the size bandit parties can have, they could crush a small kingdom if they wanted to 

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Part of a screenshot I took.

 

[Alavaria]

Yeah bandit groups can join up and that sort of thing happens.

They're probably not as dangerous as you think they are, though.

 

[LibSpit]

Yeah that can also sometimes happen if you use a level up cheat.

That size force is only really dangerous if you have huge battle sizes, a small force of elite troops can just take them apart if they are only 100 or so strong each round

 

[hadesknorr]

Yeah, I read about that guy who cheated to level 2000 something, but I'm no cheater... I modified battle size to 1000, I loved the huge battles in VC, that's probably a solution, but it would take ages to kill them.

 

[LibSpit]

nice, I need to see what size my computer can handle these days, I used to only get to about 400.

 

[hadesknorr]

And I've been thinking, even if they are no problem for me, what about the lords, the caravans, the peasants and the patrols, woulnd't they all get slaughtered?

 

[Alavaria]

Yeah it's possible for bandits to basically end up camping in the AI lords, it actually happened in my game in particular as my kingdom was friendly with them, so my territories ended up being protected by MASSIVE swarms of bandits.

 

[hadesknorr]

How did you get the bandits to be friendly with you? 

 

[Alavaria]

When you start off (before you get your relations too low by killing them) help them fight lords etc when they get caught.

It's very fast to get to the point where they aren't worth fighting, but the lord attacking them is 

 

[hadesknorr]

Well,  I'm going to try that ahah