

#Mount and blade warband best archers upgrade
Both original Disciplinarian, and replacing it Veteran's Respect perk, make grinding Leadership worth it solely for Fian spam it unlocks, allowing to upgrade pretty common bandits into very uncommon elite units. Any party that has more than 50 of either of those guys can with minimal effort face an army of 400-500 units in it, assuming it doesn't come with their own cluster of Fians/Bandits. Their more "accessible" version, the Forest Bandit, is no slouch either since it already can out-perform archers of almost all factions.

On top of that, they are one of the best melee units in the game, armed with BFS allowing a One-Hit Kill of whatever troop that will finally getting close to engage Fians. Battanian Fian Champions are hard to come by, but even a group of 10 of those can wipe out few dozens of other units - before anyone else can even get within their range to start shooting back.And because the acquisition of new smithing parts happens at random, and there are no hard restrictions on inexperienced smiths using high-tier parts (other than a few points off the final item's stats) it's possible to acquire an Infinity +1 Sword and a small kingdom's treasury within the first half hour of the game. It's possible to craft javelins worth more than the entire liquid assets of a major city. Unlocking a few high-tier parts will allow the player to make weapons that vastly outperform most stock armaments, cost a few hundred denars in materials while selling for tens of thousands, and level up the player's smithing skill by 10-20 points per item. Even militia archers deployed by Battania have extra 30 archery more than counterparts and use better bows, making Storming the Castle painful, since there will be 120-200 archers that every other faction would qualify as "veteran". Be ready see a constant stream of red on the right side of your screen as you face an archer-heavy Battanian party.

It's discovered that while the best archers of other factions have only 130 in archery, Fians have 260.
