Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord is a complex game with many deep mechanics to explore and master. Having success in the open world sandbox of Calradia requires that players master many of these mechanics, but they are not always explained very well. One of these mechanics is understanding and assigning your clan roles. Clan roles are available from very early in the game and they can make your rise to the top a bit easier if you know how to use them effectively. In this Mount And Blade 2 Bannerlord clan roles guide, we will help you understand how the clan roles work, how to use them and how to effectively recruit to maximize their effectiveness.

How to set clan roles?

Before we can assign clan roles, we need to know where and how to do this. This is not explained very well to players, and I accidentally stumbled upon it while I was exploring the different menus in the game.

To set your clan roles, you need to access your clan menu by pressing the “L” key (or whatever you set it to). Once you have opened your clan menu, you will find the option to set your clan roles in the right-hand panel of the screen as illustrated in the picture below:

Using this menu you can choose between the four unique clan roles which we will discuss in more detail below. It is important to note that each character or companion can only have one clan role assigned to them, so you will need to choose the best companion for the job. You can change them as you see fit, so assigning one is by no means a permanent decision.

What are the unique clan roles and what do they do?

There are four different clan roles you can choose from and each one is unique in the bonuses it provides. Some of them are more suited to your own character while others are better on an NPC companion and we will discuss why we say this as we go through the different clan roles.

Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord is unfortunately very vague when it comes to what the actual roles do, but after exploring the different menus in detail we found the information we were looking for. To find more information on the different roles, you need to access your character sheet (by pressing “C” or whatever you set it to) and click on the skill that relates to the role. To see the influence a skill has on your clan role, click on the information icon as illustrated below:

These skills connected to the clan roles are:

Steward – Quartermaster

Medicine – Surgeon

Engineer – Engineer

Scouting – Scout

Take note that the member you assign the clan role to needs to be in your party for you to benefit from the specific bonus.

Let’s look at each role in more detail.

Quartermaster

Primary metric: 4 points in Steward = 1 extra unit in your army

This is probably the most useful role for your own character as it has a direct influence on the number of soldiers you can recruit into your party. The number of extra soldiers is based on your Steward skill and translates to one extra party member for every four points in the Steward skill.

This is extremely useful as the game progresses and you will not regret having a bigger personal army at your command. If you manage to focus on leveling your Steward skill, you can have more than 50 extra soldiers at your command. This is a huge bonus and means that you will be able to engage larger armies and lay siege to towns with larger garrisons without needing to assemble an army to help you out.

Scout

Primary metric: 20 points in Scouting = 1% longer spotting distance

We would suggest you give this role to one of your companions as having it on your own character doesn’t benefit you very much. The bonuses you receive are directly related to the Scouting skill of the character the role is assigned to. Being a Scout has an influence on four different aspects, all relating to exploring and tracking:

Track detection radius – you will have an increased range to detect tracks leading to hideouts and armies.

Max track difficulty – this is directly equal to your Scouting skill value and determines what elements you can track and which you can’t.

Spotting distance – this is mainly related to spotting armies and other groups of enemies on the map.

Track information level – determines the information you get from tracking. Mildly useful, but not worth salivating about.

Engineer

Primary metric: 10 points in Engineering = 1% faster siege engine production

This is another clan role that you can assign to your own character, although we would still suggest you go with Quartermaster. Laying siege to a variety of castles and cities is a core part of the Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord experience and therefore the Engineer role is quite important. As with many of the other roles, the Engineer is directly related to the Engineering skill.

The Engineer clan role determines two important factors:

Faster siege engine production – this is extremely important because the longer you take to build your siege equipment the more time enemy armies have to stop your siege and attack you from the side;

Max difficulty of siege engines that can be built – this is less important but enables you to have more effective sieges as you can build better siege engines to pummel the enemy fortifications with.

Surgeon

Primary metric: 10 points in Medicine = 1% increased rate of healing

The clan role of the Surgeon is the least important of the four, in our opinion. It is directly related to the Medicine skill and is best assigned to a companion with a high Medicine skill value. It takes very long to level up your own Medicine skill and therefore it’s more effective to recruit a companion with 100 or more points already invested into the skill.

The Surgeon clan role determines two factors:

Casualty survival chance – when your units fall in battle they have a chance to survive the encounter and only receive an injury. The Surgeon buffs the survival chance and therefore you lose fewer units per engagement;

Healing rate increase – your own character, your companions and your soldiers sustain wounds in battle and cannot participate in upcoming battles if they are injured. Your own character and companions can, but they are vulnerable due to having a low life total. The Surgeon increases the rate at which you and your troops heal, getting you back on your feet in a shorter time.

Time to take your clan to the top

With our Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord clan roles guide, you should have all the information you need to assign the right people to the right role and start domination Calradia. Good luck leveling up all those skills!

You can check out some of our other guides on Mount and Blade 2 Bannerlord such as how to make money with trading or check out our beginner guide. If you like mods we also have a roundup of our favourite mods currently available.

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