Armies

Parties belonging to a kingdom's nobles and any hired mercenaries can be assembled together to form armies. Armies have an advantage over parties traveling separately, as their members will stick together and reinforce each other in battle. Most sieges in the game will need to be conducted by armies, as parties on their own are rarely large enough to take a major fortress.The leader of an army summons other nobles by spending . Each army has a cohesion statistic, which represents how motivated your commanders are and how well they work together. An army will be disbanded automatically if its cohesion drops too low. Armies start with average cohesion, and normally it drops a little bit each day the army stays in the field.