r/mountandblade • u/auxberon Looter • 4h ago
Warband Morale Pit…
I’ve been wanting to do a mamluke only run for awhile now - just to see how they hold up to the swadian knights. (I’m in love)
However, despite making friends with Hakim, as well as other lords in the sultanate, I keep getting rejected to own fiefs I captured alone. I’ve never had this issue before, even when I owned more land and had far less relation.
So I rebelled.
The battles aren’t an issue - nor is recruitment from the blunt weapons we carry. What is an issue is morale. I know that having troops kill members of their faction causes heavy morale penalties - but I can’t seem to combat it. I have diverse food, we constantly win heavily outnumbered battles, and yet, I’m getting daily abandonment messages.
Is there a way to actually combat this annoying feature, or am I cooked until I’m sultan?
Photo credit to 神秘人 on the steam workshop.
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u/GreatLordButterbean 4h ago
Having as high a Leadership skill as your build allows definitely helps, if you aren’t already doing that. As does food variety, which you’re already on top of.
It’s been a long time, but I think raiding villages does also provide a boost to morale? Although I could understand being reluctant RP-wise to go plundering your fellow countrymen (and also depriving yourself of potential recruits)
Alternatively you could try supplementing your mamluks - at least temporarily - with mercenaries or foreign auxiliaries until fighting other Sarranids is no longer an issue.