I might change my mind on this when I get around to playing Khergits. Horses are separately counted and limit the availability of mounted troops, but in practice there are usually way more horses than you could ever want. Generally, T5 and/or Level 20 and above are considered veteran, but this is only a rule of thumb and the current troop trees contravene this frequently. There are 3 kinds of recruits: peasant, veteran and mercenary. Villages are much less important as recruitment centers than in vanilla. The types of troops available from villages is influenced directly by the kingdom slavery policy. Units come in tiers, from 1 to 9 (though generally T3-T4 is the lowest kind of battle-worthy troop type you will see). In v0.26, troops are recruited directly from towns and castles, and to a much lesser extent from villages.

This is based upon my own gameplay experience and information gathering.

Since it can be repeated ad infinitum (and despite what that wiki page says there does not appear to be any cooldown period), this represents a great way for your character to be a paladin riding around, helping people, earning authentic Right to Rule.I've decided to just put this information here in case anyone needs or wants it. The rewards for this quest are extremely useful: the Silverstag emblems, decent experience given not just to you but also to your entire party, improved village relationship (not so important in Silverstag as vanilla, though, due to the revamped recruitment system), Honour, and Right to Rule (+1 each time you finish this quest). Only 1 instance of this quest can be active at any given time, it seems. This means that this quest is best done in the early game.Дў) Aiding villages this way is tricky when the war is active and you are in the middle of the main war zone, because the village that is the source of the aid may well get raided itself, forcing you to cool your heels while it recovers on its own. what a certain orange dickhead ought to be focussing on, but one cannot expect fundamentally evil people to do good things, after all)ДЄ couple of tips for completing this quest smoothly:ДЎ) It is best not to be affiliated to any faction, even as a mercenary, because no actual bandits will spawn to attack the recovering village during phase #2, but enemy lords will come and bother you. So if you have a positive reputation (Honour is not negative), occasionally you can do this quest: However, the villages help each other as much as they can, because as the elders tell you, trade is the lifeblood of the people. One of those improvements is a very neat quest type introduced by the mod, that allows you to increase Right to Rule in an organic and RP-friendly way that obviates the need to 1) recruit as many companions as you can and 2) send them out 1 by 1 to shamelessly promote you, according to the order suggested by the wiki so that you can avoid short-term inconveniences that arise due to their bickering. Despite some bugs here and there, 0.26 is quite polished and very much playable. Just to plug Silverstag again - it's great for anyone who likes vanilla Warband but just wishes there could be some more quality-of-life types of improvements.

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