Help:Orders

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The Orders screen contains almost everything (except travel) that you can do with your unit. Not all orders are available all the time, but if they are not, they usually tell you why.

Rally/Gather your men

When you have been defeated in a battle, your men have retreated or fled the battlefield and you must rally or gather them before you can do anything else.

Looting

In enemy regions you can instruct your men to go out and take gold and other valuables from the peasants, or even rob the tax collector's office. Looting will reduce tax income and production in the region, and will make the people hate your realm.

Takeover

Taking control of an enemy region is called a takeover. It will require considerable military presence for it to be successful. You will get a rough estimate when you click the Takeover link.
Takeovers are run at the turn, and it may take several days for a region to finally convert. All the while your realm must keep a military presence in the region.

Raze Fortifications

This option allows you to damage fortifications, ultimately destroying them or reducing their level. It is very useful when you were able to take control of an enemy city or stronghold, but a relief force is closing in and you want to pull back - razing the fortifications will easen your next assault or force the enemy to spend considerable resources in rebuilding it.

Repair

If your equipment is damaged, you can repair it in cities, strongholds or townslands of your own or allied realms.

Pay your men

While Autopayment (in the paperwork section) can take care of this, you sometimes want to pay your men right now. It can also sometimes raise morale to pay your men right away.

Entertainment

Again available only in friendly cities, strongholds and townslands, spending some time and gold on entertainment allows you to raise morale of your troops.

Rest Troops

If you have no gold for entertainment, simple rest can bring a few points of morale back as well, especially when you have lots of time to spend on it.

Training

This option allows you to raise the experience of your troops, though it is much less effective than actual combat. Unexperienced troops gain more from training than experienced units.

Scouting

You can send out scouts (if you have any) or one of your regular soldiers to neighbouring regions to find out if there are any enemies there and what the situation is.

Civil Work

You can command your soldiers to help the peasants repair damages to their infrastructure, rebuilding mills and bridges or similiar work. This will raise the region's production, but lower your unit's morale.

Police Work

Only available for units with the police designation, this allows you to support the local police. It has a small, but constant and reliable effect on morale, loyalty and realm control.

Hang Rebels

If the independence of a region is high, you can simply hang those pesky rebels and be done with them. This will crush morale in the region, so beware. It is, however, the only efficient tool you as a normal troop leader have when it comes to rebel peasants.

Dig In

Building a simple fortification, a palisade wall and a moat, around your camp can greatly enhance your defensive in the open field. It also makes your soldiers feel safer.

Hunt Enemies

If there are still defeated enemies around from the last battle, you can send your men out in small parties to find and round them up. Not without danger, but very useful to get rid of them. And who knows, you may even capture their leaders.

Forage Battlefield

After a battle, there are often many not so badly damaged pieces of equipment on the battlegrounds. You can instruct your men to search the fields of battle for those items useful to them. This will lower your equipment damage as the men replace damaged items with less damaged ones.

Recruit

If you are in the capital of your realm, you can recruit troops there. Clicking on this link will bring you to the recruitment screen. If you already have a unit, you can add men to it this way. If you want a new unit, you have to disband your old one first.

Rename Unit

It is possible to give your existing unit a new name, for example to reflect their maturity or the army they're now in. To do so you must be in a city, townsland, or stronghold region, so that you can find craftsmen to write the new name on your insignia.

Buy Paraphernalia

This brings you to the paraphernalia screen where you can buy extra items or recruit special troops such as scouts or healers.

Abandon Paraphernalia

If you have too many extras costing too much gold, you can drop or disband them on this screen.

Leave Wounded

Your wounded men can be left behind in the care of local healers. This allows you to get rid of them, but also means you lose them - when they are healed, they will go home, not return to your unit.

Abandon your unit

This screen allows you to abandon your men in part or whole, or set up some or all of them as a local militia force.