Mount&Blade: With Fire and Sword

[Osterbaum]

You can recruite rescued prisoners and mercenaries from taverns and mercenary camps. I guess this is meant to go along with the idea that you are infact a mercenary and have no right to recruit the subjects of lords and kings.

One thing I've noticed is that the mercenaries I hired didn't seem to level up.

[Sage Harpuia]

Originally Posted by Osterbaum

You can recruite rescued prisoners and mercenaries from taverns and mercenary camps. I guess this is meant to go along with the idea that you are infact a mercenary and have no right to recruit the subjects of lords and kings.

One thing I've noticed is that the mercenaries I hired didn't seem to level up.

I believe it's either a bug or requires some sort of NPC to upgrade mercenaries. Most likely the former due to the nature of Mount and Blade games. Also, I believe a forum user on the Taleworlds forums has made a temporary patch for the "troops.txt" which might be the source of the bug.

Hm.. I might be picking this game up once I reach adequate affluence.

Edit: The patch is simply a quick fix from a player, so a update by the dev team would most likely take place some time later. Also, keep in mind the fix might not be a complete one and effects certain merc units from what I read.