Chingis KHAN!!!

[Fringe]

Travelling through the step in small numbers is known to be dangerous. Even in large numbers you can easily get swarmed...

But the people of the steppe have yet to see what atrocity's roam the land. An army of brigands, if not rebels, stalk the grassland. At the head of the army stands the man known only by Chingis, and behind him stands an army, a swarm of hornets ready to sting.

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Chingis himself...
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After a hard chase (and several thousand denars later) I had finally made it to the nearest city, and situated myself safely inside it's walls.

The armies I had seen were hardly bandits. These were rebels, and their presence in the steppe either meant a revolt...or a revolution. Sanjar Khan had a new pretender practically on his doorstep, and as long as he allowed this to happen the longer the terror would ensue within the inner steppe.

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But really wtf  I've spent a lot of time in Brytenwalda...I've had my city attacked thousands of times by 2000 man armies just over religious disputes. I've dealt with large numbers of bandits grouped together, and even previously in Floris mod (I'm using: Floris Expanded Mod Pack 2.54,) but never have I ever come up on a force of bandits which exceeded 500 troops. There were  more here but they were out of sight by the time I took the pictures. Even so, there are 700-800 troops here, with over 1000 prisoners. I paid about 1000 denars to every party, leaving me broke.

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Sucked dick -.-

The steppe was a bitch to go through before, now I'm keeping my ass clear of it...for now.

[Ronin]

This is Floris mod right?

I liked how bandits were a proper organised force and was a real problem. Once, I even have to forget about capturing a rhodok castle in my siege campaign just because some bandit leader was blocking the passageway. I must say I was a Swadian Marshall and had 5-6 lords following me, and I was commanding more than 100 men as well. I tried battling with them and even beaten them, but in the end there wasn't enough men left to conquer a rhodok castle.

[Fringe]

This is Floris mod right?

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Floris mod (I'm using: Floris Expanded Mod Pack 2.54,)

I liked how bandits were a proper organised force and was a real problem. Once, I even have to forget about capturing a rhodok castle in my siege campaign just because some bandit leader was blocking the passageway. I must say I was a Swadian Marshall and had 5-6 lords following me, and I was commanding more than 100 men as well. I tried battling with them and even beaten them, but in the end there wasn't enough men left to conquer a rhodok castle.

Yeah it was really cool. They came down in  force, the army of 300 was all alone, but just out of sight was the party led by Chingis. I've also come across the mountain bandit party before, but there were enough Rhodok lords around to help me deal with them.

Even so it was a cool occurrence, I'll return back to the Kingdom of Rhodoks depleted of money. Luckily I had some goods with me to sell in the Ichamur. I've also got some iron for my iron works in Jelkala. I went to find a companion, which led to the reason of my detour. I now have enough common sense the stay the fuck away from the Steppe, and possibly the desert too.

Even so, one day I'll return, with reason to conquer. There will be no such bandits in my territory...(also I really want to cash in on those 1000 troops.)

[Ronin]

Those bandits can also be a pain in the ass with ruining your trading economy as well. In my game I had to enlist patrol armies composed of 100 medium tier men to stop them. Anything lower than will simply get fucked up within a week. If I don't enlist any patrols, they will simply raid every caravan on their way. I had many problems with those forest bandits as the lord of Uxkhal.

[Kafein]

With 100 to 200 heavy cavalry units (swadian or sarranid is best), you can dispatch those 800 bandit armies very easily. Maybe not in floris mod though.

Also, bonus because with all those prisoners you can replace your losses without paying anything, and they make them move very slow, which means you can select your fights.

[Ronin]

Actually the good thing about floris mod is, it is much harder to get high tier troops
Of course no one can stop you since it's still a sandbox-like game, but much longer to get full elite troops compared to native.

[Fringe]

With 100 to 200 heavy cavalry units (swadian or sarranid is best), you can dispatch those 800 bandit armies very easily. Maybe not in floris mod though.

Also, bonus because with all those prisoners you can replace your losses without paying anything, and they make them move very slow, which means you can select your fights.

Yeah, I had just taken some heavy losses and was recruiting. Didn't have all my high tier soldiers. I had plenty of pikes, but they would have been injured and would die after 800 different troops...who happened to be mobile archers, something my pike men couldn't deal with.

Of course the reward was 1000 troops in the end. Even so, they would be of different nationality's and replacing them with native or preferred troops would be difficult.

(Ronin,) I totally agree with you. I never had the problem in Brytenwalda because once I finally secured my kingdom it was on a peninsula, far from any bandits. Also my 1000 man personal army would absolutely rape any bandit force if it were to engage in my territory. I'm used to Brytenwalda, so the time it takes to build an elite army is nothing to me. A couple of quick battles and the get around medium tier...or the lvl 3-4 stage. After that I would always just crutch masses of them into better lvls...survival of the fittest