Factions

A faction is a record with a name, a type, a leader, members ranked from recruit to crown, a color, and a hand-drawn flag. Everything in Medieval Armies — territory, war, recruitment, the gods' favor — flows through who belongs to whom.

Founding and running a faction

Players found a faction through the in-game menus, then build it out from there: recruit NPCs once you've earned their trust, kick members, promote and demote, and disband if it comes to that. Every member holds one of four ranks:

• Leader — full authority; the one who founded or inherited the crown.
• Officer — trusted with promotions and demotions.
• Member — a sworn part of the roster.
• Recruit — newly brought in, not yet fully trusted.

Disbanding releases everything the faction held — its territory and its army are dissolved with it.

The twenty rival factions

Twenty factions already hold the continent when you arrive. Each leans toward a trade — and that character shapes the land it lives on, tilting the riches in its soil and the beasts in its biomes. Where a faction lives changes what its land is worth.

A representative sample of the twenty, spanning the Mining, Agrarian, Foresters, Smiths, Merchants, Scholars and Martial trades across the map.

Relations

Every faction holds a stance toward every other — and toward you, the moment you raise your own banner.

You can inspect and edit these standings from the in-game Faction Information screen.

Grudges

Standings aren't only set by decree. Spill enough of a faction's blood and resentment builds on its own — a grudge that festers, then fades if the violence stops.