Now that you have your Mercenary Guards (20+ is ideal, and this can take on groups of looters over five times their size) it’s just a matter of grinding more battles. Repeat the process with your Watchmen and upgrade them to Mercenary Guards, this is what we want. So don’t upgrade any until all are ready. Because of how troop XP, the entire unit class shares an XP pool. As a tip, try to upgrade all your troops at once. Your peasants will level up to Watchmen quite fast, Watchmen have no ranged attack, so they’re slightly more dangerous to level up against looters, so expect more fatalities. If things start turning against you, you can always kill tons of looters yourself. As long as you aren’t grossly outnumbered (Try to go 1:1 or less to be safe) it should be pretty easy. Fortunately, this isn’t very dangerous for the peasants or the looters, as they will mostly just huck rocks at one another, with a few going in with pitchforks. So train those peasants! Pick only looters, and make sure (If you’re not doing auto resolves) to have only the peasants get the kills to speed up XP (Yes this works). One of these is what we need to get your Roguery training going.

You see, the Humble Peasant upgrades into the poor T1 troop “Watchman”, but he in turn upgrades into one of two options. So now you’ve got your peasants? What next? Well, now it’s time to grind XP.

Try to get around 20-40 Peasants, to absorb losses. Once you rescue them, we can move onto stage 2, the hardest. Peasant works, from Kuzhait to Vlandian, but ideally you want them all the be the same culture because of how troop XP works. Once you find a party you can engage with prisoners, confirm they are a Peasant class prisoner, (or, one of the upgrades, Watchman or Mercenary Guard for example, though that would be extraordinarily rare). So find yourself some looters with prisoners (Hold the Alt key on the map to see who’s got Wounded (+W#) and Prisoners (+P#) On top of that, you’ll also have to rescue them from a bandit group ideally looters, around ten of which you should be able to solo right out the gate, holy rock to the head notwithstanding.

Well, you see in some twist of Irony, you’re not attacking peasants, but Rescuing them. How the hell are Peasants going to help me level up the Roguery skill?The Game Help Text says raiding caravans, but nothing about peasants! How to Level Up Roguvery? Peasants, the Secret Key to Leveling Roguery

This guide on how to actually level the Roguery skill in the Early Access version of the game, to get those delicious looting+perks will show you, peasants, secret key, lobbing, mercenary squad, etc.

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