Farmer

Farmer
Troop Information
Culture	Mercenaries
Wages	1 denar
Acquired from...	Prisoners
Upgrades to...	Watchman
Upgrade Cost	10 denars
XP for Kill	? xp
Ransom Value	32 denars

Farmers may be found in groups traveling between towns and villages. They may be captured from these groups or found and recruited from prisoners of a defeated enemy.

Farmers can spawn randomly in taverns across Calradia. The player can speak to them about a quest to Save the Village in their home village, and they will ask the player to assist in removing said bandits.

A mob of farmers and peasant women will attack the player's forces if they attempt to loot and burn a village with only a few men. This can also happen if a particularly small player party tries to force villagers to give them supplies.

Tactics / Usage

While farmers may come to your aid when defending a village, or can be recruited when rescued, they rarely serve any meaningful purpose beyond acting as cannon fodder. They're neither resilient, fast, or strong enough to make any significant impact on a battle. In fact, they can prove to be more of an annoyance when trying to help a village, as the group of farmers spawned are often large enough to slow down you down.

Cannon fodder

They could be used as fodder, taking fire from enemy marksmen for you and your party. The best way to do this would be to assign your farmers to a separate group and then order all but that one group to hold position, allowing the farmers to charge ahead to their doom. A more sensible tactic would be too ask them to hold position in front of your other troops, which will delay the enemy troops while you assemble your melee units and use archers to pepper the enemy with projectiles.

Garrison

Late game, instead of charging them to their doom, you could place as many peasants or low level cheap troops as possible as garrison, as the number of troops alone can act as deterrent against sieges (quality does impress AI when it comes to sieging a town/castle).

Other considerations

If attempting to raise mercenaries, it is advised that you keep your farmers out of the conflict until they have leveled up through shared experience, your training skill, or through sparring in a training field.

Stats and equipment

Note: Troops have a set of default stats; at the beginning of a new game, these stats are randomly adjusted for each type of troop. The following is the default set for this troop as seen within the game code and may not reflect the specific stats you will see during actual gameplay. For more information, see Troop stats.

Farmer - Default Stats and Equipment

Attributes Stat Points Level 4 Strength 7 Agility 5 Intelligence 4 Charisma 4 Health 42 Armor Head (Possible): Leather Cap, Felt Hat Body Linen Tunic, Tunic with vest Hand ? Foot (Possible): Nomad Boots, Wrapping Boots Skills Skill Points Ironflesh ? Power Strike ? Power Throw ? Power Draw ? Weapon Master ? Shield ? Athletics ? Riding 1 Horse Archery ? Looting ? Trainer ? Tracking ? Tactics ? Path-finding ? Spotting ? Inventory Management 2 Wound Treatment ? Surgery ? First Aid ? Engineer ? Persuasion ? Prisoner Management 1 Leadership 1 Trade 2 Proficiencies Weapon Type Points One Handed Weapons 60 Two Handed Weapons 60 Polearms 60 Archery 60 Crossbows 60 Throwing 60 Weapons Melee Cleaver, Knife, Pitch Fork, Sickle, Club Ranged (Possible): Stones Shield ? Mount ?

Mercenary Troops
Sellswords						Sword Sisters
	Farmer	Townsman	Caravan Master			Peasant Woman	Refugee
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	Mercenary Crossbowman	Caravan Guard		Bandit		Camp Defender
		Mercenary Horseman	Mercenary Swordsman		Brigand	Huntress
		Mercenary Cavalry	Hired Blade			Sword Sister