I am 10+ hours into a playthrough and yet to see a single companion ever level. Sure, they still gain skills but not levels (and stats/focus points). This makes gear as the only path to upgrading your companions. Also, I have not encountered any merchant or stewardship companions. I expect assigning stewardship-focused companion to govern should increase bonuses to holdings. Likewise with
Trainer and CKO trainer companions (optimised so that your custom knighthood order will eventually get 10s across the board): Sigismund (Strength) - Iron Flesh, Power Strike, and eventually Power Draw to 10. Ediz (Agility) - Riding, horse archery to 10. Sir Rayne (Agility) athletics, shield, weapon master to 10.
For the heroes featured in Mount&Blade: With Fire & Sword, see Heroes (With Fire & Sword). Heroes or companions are unique troops with individual names, stories, skills, attributes and equipment (all of which can be chosen by you). Like the player character, heroes never die and are only knocked unconscious. You can never station them in garrisons. Even at level 18, Alayen is outpacing Katrin in trade if comparing level to level, 8 to 6. In fact, Alayen equals Katrin in trade at level 7 with 3 trade while Katrin starts at level 8 with 3 trade. I realize that Katrin would start out higher and have a level headstart over Alayen but once you get into the high teens or low 20's, leveling is The Best Medieval RPG Games Like Mount & Blade Announced in 2012 and highly anticipated by its fidgeting fan-base, Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is a medieval action-RPG and set to take place 200+ years before the events of the previous titles Mount & Blade and Mount & Blade:
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