Improved Garrisons
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 1.4% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #2 of 678 Gameplay mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Improved Garrisons is a Mount & Blade Bannerlord mod which aims to improve the management of your
castles and settlements. With this mod a Improved Garrison will be added to each of your fiefs which allows
the usage of new advanced and highly customizable features such as recruitment, garrison training and guard parties with
a custom AI to defend your properties. Some of the main principles of the mod are compatibility, convienience and
delivering a balanced experience to your bannerlord playthrough.
Standalone UI
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[]Configure each Castle or Settlement individually. [/]
[]Activate & deactivate the mod at any time — works with ongoing or new campaigns. [/]
[]Manage your Improved Garrisons from anywhere on the map. [/]
[]Compact overview showing which settlements, castles, or villages are under attack, destroyed, or at peace. [/]
Recruitment
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[]Automatically recruit troops from nearby villages into your garrison. [/]
[]Automatically recruit prisoners over time as they gain conformity. [/]
[]Set recruitment thresholds (e.g., stop recruiting when the garrison reaches 100 units). [/]
[]Create Recruiter Parties. [/]
[]Recruiters gather troops from outside your fief’s region. [/]
[]Restrict recruiters to specific cultures. [/]
[]Specify the number of troops recruiters should collect. [/]
[]Enable “elite-only recruitment” to collect only top-tier units (e.g., Battanian Fians). [/]
Training
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[]Automatically train and upgrade all garrisoned troops. [/]
[]Use the Template Manager to create fully custom training templates. [/]
[]Garrisons automatically upgrade troops according to your templates. [/]
[]Training templates synchronize across all saves. [/]
[]Train different garrisons with different army compositions (e.g., Empire infantry vs. Khuzait horse archer templates). [/]
[]Improved Garrisons automatically recruits the troops needed for your template — just set the desired types and numbers. [/]
Custom AI
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[]Create Guard Parties directly from your garrisoned troops. [/]
[]Assign various orders to Guard Parties. [/]
[]Guard Parties defend your villages, castles, and settlements. [/]
[]Command them to follow you into war — they assist in sieges and open battles. [/]
[]Order them to defend clan parties (caravans, companion parties, etc.). [/]
[]Guard Parties capture and sell prisoners. [/]
[]Self-sustaining behavior: automatically refill troops from the garrison and heal wounded units. [/]
[]Optional: allow Guard Parties to buy horses for improved speed. [/]
[]Guard Parties loot defeated enemies and sell the loot. [/]
[]Advanced AI decisions (“Defend XY Village”, “Retreat — enemy too strong”, “Return to settlement to heal”, etc.). [/]
Management
[]View important fief stats: food stocks, gold income, prosperity, and more. [/]
[]Inspect each garrison’s troop roster from anywhere on the map. [/]
[]Transfer units between garrisons. [/]
[]Manage town projects remotely: add/remove projects from anywhere. [/]
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[]Create Guard Parties directly from your garrisoned troops. [/]
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[]Automatically train and upgrade all garrisoned troops. [/]
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[]Automatically recruit troops from nearby villages into your garrison. [/]
Improved Garrisons is a Mount & Blade Bannerlord gameplay mod that overhauls fief management with advanced recruitment, training, and guard party features. It offers a standalone UI for individual settlement configuration, works with ongoing campaigns, and has 30,400 endorsements and 2.2M downloads. Last updated May 2026.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Huge community trust with 30,400 endorsements and 2.2M downloads.
- Deep customization: individual fief settings, recruiter parties, and training templates.
- Active development—last updated May 2026, so it's likely compatible with current game versions.
⚠️ Cons
- Description cuts off mid-sentence, so some features may be undocumented.
- Requires understanding of multiple systems (recruitment, training, guard parties) which might overwhelm new players.
- No explicit install instructions or dependency list provided in the description.
For Bannerlord players who want to offload garrison management and focus on combat or diplomacy. If you're tired of manually recruiting and training troops for every castle, this mod automates it with deep control. Skip if you prefer vanilla simplicity or want a mod that changes combat directly.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Start by activating the mod on a single fief to learn the UI before enabling it everywhere.
- Use the Template Manager to set up a training template once—it syncs across all saves.
- Set recruitment thresholds to avoid over-stuffing garrisons and draining village resources.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Bannerlord Mods
- Author
- Sidies
- Version
- 4.2.0.7
- Downloads
- 2,166,998
- Endorsements
- 30,400
- Category
- Gameplay
- Created
- 4/18/2020
- Updated
- 5/24/2026
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