The Robber Baron
"Smuggling, extortion, mercenary work… no business is deemed beneath consideration in his world."
The Robber Baron is a new agent which is heavily reliant on the Banditry modifier.
You can play The Robber Baron as an Intrigue-focused character who farms gold and spreads shadow, or, my preferred way, which is maxing out on Command, spamming Establish Banditry in a remote area, then use Assemble Mercenary Company 1-2 times to get a big ball of destruction rolling.
Three agent-specific starter traits:
– Underworld Ties
– Racketeer
– Ex-Mercenary
Four agent-specific challenges ("rituals", "actions")
– Smuggle
– Corrupt Ruler
– Establish Banditry
– Assemble Mercenary Company
A big part of what makes this agent so fun is his ability to convert banditry into autonomous mercenary companies. These will:
– Seek out non-enshadowed locations to raze
– Consume local banditry to grow in size
– Split into two smaller companies when the size exceeds 120 men
– Return home and recruit when low on men
They build up a lot of menace, and also do not coordinate with one another (meaning, they won’t fight alongside each other during battles, which leaves them exposed to larger armies/kingdoms). Mercenary companies use a simple name generator and pick a random picture out of 20, giving each company its own unique flavour.
– ilikegoodfood, Doopliss, and the modding community for coding aid
– Katrina’s Courtesan mod, which I used as a template for learning
– Artwork was generated by me using Midjourney (v6.1)
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
