Mercenary contracts NEVER expire and breaking them incurs all the same penalties as breaking vassalage. On top of that they pay virtually nothing. Your options are: 1) Break the contract and have that entire faction hate you probably forever. 2) Become a vassal since there is no benefit to being a mercenary. 3) Wait for the devs to fix this Lesbosisles said: There's a bug in the game, when you succesfully convince any mercenary leader to join your kingdom, they join not like mercs, but like any other lord, e.g. they become a part of the kingdom. I did this a few times, the King started giving them fiefs, but they began deflecting very often - today they are part of the Empire and UPDATE VIDEO HERE: By raiding enough of their villages and attacking their caravans, the opposing faction will declare war on you, which works great if you’re already ready for it to happen. It’s not a Two specific quests that can earn you money fast are Family Feud and a Deliver the Herd quest. These two will put out the most money for little effort. Family Feud is a quest that easily yields between 1000 and 2000 denars. The quest has you tracking down an NPC and taking them to another. There are several ways to acquire high-rank soldiers for your squad: Recruitment and training of recruits, Hiring mercenaries at the tavern, Recruiting prisoners, Recruiting freed prisoners from another squad. In this guide to leveling up troops quickly in Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord, we will go over each of these methods. Same here, releasing them doesn't really suit my playstyle of a Mercenary/Bandit and ransoming them isn't really a option, considering they escape after a short while and getting only 1.5k to 2k for the hassle isn't worth it. You can only hire them by talking to the leader. On Nexus I saw a mod with the name like ESP which allows you to talk to anyone on the map. In Warband the hire mercenary system was better I think. Meanwhile, AI Rulers can easily recruit mercenaries, while being captured and sitting in the dungeon. Immersion at best. Of course, there are other options, too. If you already own a settlement, you can try to be an independent faction. Or you can increase your Clan Tier and ask to become a vassal, which leads to bigger rewards depending on your influence. From there, the world is yours for the taking in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. You can declare yourself the All you need to do is to talk to one lord (watch out if they want to attack you, you might be captured if failed to make peace and have to fight them) and tell them "I have something to talk to you about" and then "we should make peace". When you get barter screen, offer them money and click handshake (auto offer). 1. true. jjUdFNq.