Stronghold hirelings + Fampyrs.

[Absolum]

Hi,

Regarding stronghold hirelings, anyway to keep them alive during Caed Nua defenses (not talking about the Yenwood fight) ?

They keep diying every single encounter, i try to withdraw them to save the weakest but most of the time i haven't finished casting they are dead, i'm hired only special guest hirelings so it's quite annoying to lose them, no way to take them out of fights and let me handle them by myself ?

 

Regarding Fampyrs, their charms keep running after i've defeated them, is it intentional or bug related ? Liberating/suppress affliction don't remove the charm completely.

[Chaospread]

Hi, no, you have to defeat enemies before they knocked down your allies.
But maybe you can engage other hirelings for the battle and pick the special guests just after the encounter.
Or you can manage the encouter as an automatic one.

Yes, I think fampyr charme last for entire duration even if the caster has died, but liberating/suppress affliction could be a bug indeed.

 

[Absolum]

18 minutes ago, Chaospread said:

Hi, no, you have to defeat enemies before they knocked down your allies.
But maybe you can engage other hirelings for the battle and pick the special guests just after the encounter.
Or you can manage the encouter as an automatic one.

Yes, I think fampyr charme last for entire duration even if the caster has died, but liberating/suppress affliction could be a bug indeed.

 

Well hirelings litteraly die when the fight begins, i haven't the time to cast anything they are already dead (for some of them, like the Glanfathan Soul Hunter and Dunryd Psion), i have Caed Nua defenses encounter everytime, so i can't hire them after, because there will be other encounters just later.

 

Regarding Fampyr's charms, yeah i keep casting liberating/suppress but the charm stay on the character's portrait and come back a few seconds after (the caster is already dead but the charm keeps running despite removing it), i have to run away and wait the charm wears off, it's really annoying.

[Chaospread]

About hirelings I guess you face too strong enemies for your level, I suggest you having automatic battle resolution if you wanna keep custom hirelings, at least with very tough foes. If a guest hireling of yours die, you have to enhance prestige and security score to encrease the odds you can re-hire them next random events and to avoid attack encounters, but early game it is almost impossible 
Apart from this, custom hirelings costs too much for their own bonus, hiring them early game is too expensive in my opinion. Take normal hirelings early game, then middle-late game you'll have good stronghold score (which means no more caed nua attacks) and more incomes and you'll can hire custome hirelings

For liberating/suppress affliction, I think it is bugged about charme, you can don anything about that, sorry The only chance can be Aegis of Loyalty (paladin ability). I usually play SOLO, so I can say nothing more about that (maybe I can try with may paladin and charmed figurines...).