You may feel safer with an entourage of 20 Palatine Guards at your side, but that many Trained Archers will do just as well when ordered to skirmish (F1+F4), at a fraction of upgrade and upkeep costs.Ĭompanions best suited for making money in Bannerlord tend to be on the pricey sideħ0-80 gold is also roughly what your entire escort should cost daily, so escalating that just to have one more sword along is far from cost-effective.

Once you have about 20-30 recruits, upgrade them to archers and keep them at a low Tier. The Imperial troop tree is ideal for our purposes here, as they have a cheap and effective archer as early as Tier 2. As a rule of thumb, your early escort should never be larger than 25 units, and those units should be cheap and durable since replacing losses costs money too. The key is to assemble a small party geared towards maximum bang-per-buck. Those funds should be going towards making more money, and not recruitment costs and wages. This will improve your map movement speed and allow you to take care of Looters, Bandits, and the like from a safe distance. The essentials include a decent bow, some arrows, and a proper horse. A unique set of early Bannerlord armour known as “The Shroud of Cheapskate”

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