Hiring your own CaravanДЄ new feature introduced in Bannerlord is the ability to hire your own merchant caravan. With the caravan escort having the biggest payout. These are the easiest most profitable quests weвЂ™ve done so far. Occasionally, the caravan may also get attacked by large roaming looter/bandit groups. The caravan guard will be joining you though so youвЂ™re not alone. They have the same firepower as mountain, forest, and steppe bandits so be ready for a fight. These are typically large groups of bandits with 40-50 members.

The attack will happen the moment the caravan steps out of the settlement. A fair warning though, it wonвЂ™t be smooth sailing all the time as there will be a bandit spawn in one of the settlements youвЂ™re going to visit. So, it does take a bit of time and its mostly just travel. However, this took as from one end of the map to the other. The highest weвЂ™ve ever gotten was 9k denars. Now, the payout will depend on the number of days youвЂ™ve been escorting the caravan. The other good-paying quest from merchants are the escort caravan ones.ДЄs the name suggests, youвЂ™ll be escorting a merchant caravan until it visits two settlements. These reward around 600-700 denars per turn in, which is not bad for early players. Since these groups are everywhere you can easily chase after them just outside a settlement. ItвЂ™s a basic quest requiring you to defeat one or two looter/bandit parties (increases depending on renown). Most merchant NPCs give out these quests to lessen the threat to their caravans, and for safer trade routes. Some of the most basic quests you can take while starting out is defeating looter and bandit groups.

Yep, we have gangs all over the world now and they hold great influence over settlements. This time around nobles arenвЂ™t your main source of quests but rather our merchants and gang leaders. So, no need to run back to the giver to reap your rewards. They are now automatically turned-in too, after your deeds. Replacing those meager quests are proper rewarding tasks. Gone are your tax collecting, letter delivering, and hands-on training shenanigans. QuestingД«annerlordвЂ™s quest system are way more diverse compared to Warband. After all, they are everywhere and are easy to defeat. Looters and Bandits are your easy source of money whenever you need some, even at the later stages. You can also choose to raid their hideouts to grab the loots theyвЂ™ve stolen through their rampage. Take em all when youвЂ™re still starting out, the looters may not be much but money is money right? After a battle, you can grab the wounded as prisoners of war. During combat there is a chance that instead of killing an opponent youвЂ™re going to wound them. In the mainland, you have the mountain and forest bandits and in the desert, you have the steppe bandits.ДЄpart from selling the loot you get from them, you can also sell them as prisoners. Depending on the region youвЂ™re at, these bandits change form. However, they are still relatively easy to overcome, with numbers or proper tactics. So, be wary when engaging large groups of them as you might lose a man or two if youвЂ™re not careful. Now, these guys have proper equipment, with some even on horseback. After youвЂ™ve formed a better party and get tired of our rogue peasants, you can then move on to the stronger bandit groups. The loot you get are also not that bad when starting out. Even in large groups, these thieves are easy to handle and destroy.

Your basic looters are practically peasants wearing only rag-tag shirts and wielding stones. This is probably your easiest and most direct way of earning dough in the early stages of your playthrough.

ThatвЂ™s it! ThereвЂ™s money in Looters and Bandits

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