Warband Management

The Warband Management screen allows you to hire new warriors, change the formation of your warband.

Your warband will start with a single warrior - a Leader warrior. This warrior will be visible in the center of the screen as well as represented by the unit icon in the 'Leader' slot, at the bottom of the screen. Using the D-Pad Left and D-Pad Right (for Gamepads) or moving the mouse over the icons will change the left hand panel to show a summary of your warband (for the warband icon), the warrior (for any hired warrior) or the warriors available for purchase in slots with a '+' icon. The padlocks represent locked slots that will be unlocked as your warband gains Ranks. You will have 1 Hero slot and 3 Henchman slots available at the start of the game.

Down the right hand side you can see your available reserve warriors. These are warriors who will not be fighting in the next battle, but are still members of your warband. Reserves are useful for filling gaps in your warband when your active warriors suffer injuries or are learning skills or spells. You can hire up to 3 reserves at the start of the game.

At the bottom right, you can view any available Hired Swords who may be hireable for your warband. Hired Swords will become available 2 in-game days after you create your warband.

Warband Summary
You can access the warband summary from the warband icon, on the row of icons across the base of the screen. This screen provides information about the the current state of your warband. In the top left, you will see your warband rank, the required experience to reach the next rank and the name of your warband. Pressing the X button (for Gamepads) or the Y key allows you to choose a new name for your warband.

You can also see your warband rating, how much upkeep is currently owed to your warriors and how many active, reserve and inactive warriors currently in your warband and the maximum you can have.

Further information is arranged in sections:
 * Current Bonuses: Here you can see your current allowances for the different warriors you can hire, as well as the buff that praying at your Warband Idol will provide.
 * Next Rank Bonus: This will show you what will be unlocked when your warband gains a new rank.
 * Warband Status: This panel shows you the status of the warriors in your warband.
 * Active: These warriors are fit and healthy and ready to fight.
 * Unpaid: All warriors require paying after a mission and will not fight again until they receive their wages.
 * In training: Training skills and spells takes time and any warrior who is currently training will be unavailable for battle until training is complete.
 * In treatment: Injured warriors need treatment to recover from their injuries, making them unavailable until their treatment in finished.
 * Awaiting treatment: If you have injured warriors not receiving treatment, they will be shown here.
 * Leaders available: Your warband needs a Leader to fight in battles. The number of Leaders available to your warband (who are not injured or training) will be shown here.
 * Description: The description tab details the background of your warband.
 * History: This tab gives you a breakdown of when significant events occurred in your warband, such as new hires or gaining ranks.
 * Stats: This tab gives you an overview of warband stats, such as number of victories, the total damage your warband has dealt and the total Wyrdstone ever collected.

Should you have injured warriors or warriors awaiting wages, you can pay treatment or upkeep costs for the whole warband. You will also have the option to disband the warband, which will fire all your warriors but leave your warband rank, equipment, gold and Wyrdstone in tact.

Leaders, Heroes and Henchmen
To partake in missions you must have at least 4 warriors including your Leader. Selecting any of the '+' icons for Hero or Henchmen allows you to hire a warrior in that slot.

You can only ever bring one Leader into battle, who must occupy the Leader slot. Leaders are powerful warriors who command your warband. They have access to skills, unavailable to other warriors, which inspire and grant courage to allies. Each warband has a specific Leader (such as the Magister for the Cult of the Possessed warband), however there are skills that allow specific Heroes to become Leaders.

Heroes are special warriors, stronger than the regular warriors available to warbands. There are a total of 3 different Hero warriors available to each warband, with varied stats, strengths and weaknesses. Leaders and Heroes may learn advanced, more powerful forms of skills known as 'Masteries' which are unavailable to Henchmen. Hero slots can take either Heroes, Hired Swords or Henchmen.

Henchmen are your regular warriors and each warband has 2 different types, each with a different focus. Henchmen start with fewer Strategy and Offense Points than Leaders or Heroes and will receive fewer SP, OP and Skill Points in total. Henchman Slots can only accommodate Henchmen.

Impressive Warriors
As your warband gains ranks, you will gain access to powerful, warband specific warriors known as Impressive Warriors. You may have one active Impressive Warrior in the Impressive Warrior slot, situated above the two Hero slots furthest right. Taking an Impressive Warrior into battle prevents you from taking two Heroes or Henchmen in these slots.

Impressive Warriors are extremely powerful, but also have some restrictions. They will never retreat from a fight and cannot Disengage or Flee. Some are very large and cannot enter buildings, scavenge Search Points or gather Wyrdstone. However, these champions have exceptional starting and maximum statistics, gain a greater number of skill points in total as well as some having access to unique skills or spells.

Be warned - if you take an Impressive Warrior into battle, your enemy will do the same!

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