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How to raise armies in Manor LordsHow to recruit your own army to defend your Manor Lords town
How to recruit your own army to defend your Manor Lords town
Image credit:Hooded Horse
Image credit:Hooded Horse
Looking to raise your first army in Manor Lords?Manor Lordsisn’t just any old city-building game: it also has a surprisingly robust and in-depth combat system which calls to mind the Total War series - albeit at a less grand scale. Depending on yourstarting scenario, armies are a must-have inManor Lordsto help defend againstbandits- or even worse,raiders.
In this quick guide, we’ll walk you throughhow to raise armies in Manor Lords, including how to make sure you have all the equipment you need to arm them ready for battle against your enemies.
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How to raise an army in Manor Lords
Recruits
You need two things for an army: recruits, and equipment. Your available recruits are all of the healthy adult male members of yourPopulation.
Here you can check how much of each equipment type (and how many available recruits) there are in your settlement for raising armies. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse
Equipment
Soldiers aren’t worth much without weapons and armour. Even if you have enough recruits, they can’t become soldiers in your army unless they have enough equipment of the correct type.
The different types of militia have different equipment requirements:
All of these items can be built in Backyard Extensions for Level 2 Burgage Plots. The Blacksmith makes Sidearms, Spears, and Polearms; The Bowyer makes Warbows; and the Joiner makes Large and Small Shields. They’re all made out of Planks and/or Iron Slabs, so you’ll need a Logging Camp and Sawpit for the Planks, and a Mining Pit and Bloomery for the Iron Slabs.
Of course, you can also import any of these resources at a Trading Post. For more information, check out our dedicatedManor Lords tradeguide!
Mercenaries are a good (but expensive) way to temporarily bolster your army in Manor Lords. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse
How to hire Mercenaries in Manor Lords
You can also hire Mercenaries to boost your army’s ranks beyond what your recruits and equipment can offer. To do this, open the Army menu from the bottom hotbar, click on the plus (+) to create a new unit, and then click the button on the very end to “Hire mercenaries”.
Mercenaries are a great way to quickly add to your military might when fightingRaidersorBandits, but they take an awful lot from your Treasury, so make sure to only hire them for however long you need them.
Now that you know how to recruit an army and defend yourself against threats such as raiders and bandits, why not check out our guides on how to get some of the more specialised resources in the game, such asAle,Sheep,Herbs, andClothes? For all other aspects of the game that don’t involve warring, ourManor Lords beginner’s guidewill serve as a pivotal resource!
