And they're usually crappier than recruits before being upgraded into proper troops. Doing so, however, tanks your army morale as your regular troops don't like working with the same people that used to extort, kill or rob them when they were peasants (unless you invest some points in Roguery).

Army of Thieves and Whores: Difficult to do so but possible, if you hire captured Looters and Bandits as troops.

And shields are far more reliable damage buffers anyway. Unless things are changed during development, there is nearly zero benefit to wear armour.

Armor Is Useless: If the damage isn't slash one, you might just as well be running butt-naked.

'Arabian Nights' Days: The Aserai, like their Warband counterparts Sarranid Sultanate, are based on the Arabs and play this trope straight.

Wind up a captive of someone you've pissed off and you might find yourself on the executioner's block, and if you don't have anyone in your clan to take over, it's game over. Especially given that (depending on settings) the player's OWN immortality card has been revoked. Doing so has been indicated by the devs to be a bad idea, with how angry people will get depending on the lord in question fewer people will weep if you kill a dishonorable piece of crap, but he was still part of the aristocracy and therefore supposed to be above such things.

Anyone Can Die: Unlike in Warband the player may freely execute enemy lords.

That said, because arrows remain embedded in their targets regardless of the damage they do, warriors who survived a few grazing hits can fight at full strength with a half-dozen arrows sticking out of their chest.

Bows are the scariest weapons in the game to be staring down, and every elite archer enemy is considered a formidable opponent.

Anti-Cavalry: Units specialized in polearms are much better at their job than in Warband, with even a Looter or a Peasant with a pitchfork being able to stop dead in its tracks all but the heaviest cavalry troops.

With Bannerlord featuring dynastic elements (if your character dies, you take over as someone else in your clan), these weapons your character crafted can pass down the generations.

Ancestral Weapon: The game features a robust crafting system, allowing players to design all sorts of weird and unique weapons, give them a name, and use them in battle.

These also include place names for nearby terrain features that are all unlabeled on the main map.

All There in the Manual: The seemingly-generic towns and villages each have a few lines of flavor text in the encyclopedia, discussing their history and the people who live there.

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