Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Smart Garrison
Help computer-controlled towns build garrisons they can afford to feed. Recruitment and troop numbers respond to food reserves and clan finances.
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Make it your own
What it brings to your game
Food-aware garrison growth
Clan budget safeguards
Relief for oversized garrisons
Player guide
Make the most of your mod
Requirements
For Bannerlord 1.4.8 stable single-player. Requires Harmony 2.4.2.225 and MCM 5.11.4, shown as MBOptionScreen in the mod list. The garrison changes apply to computer-controlled factions; towns in the player’s faction are excluded.
Installation
- Subscribe on Steam, install the Nexus download through a mod manager, or place the complete WPS_SmartGarrison folder inside Modules.
- Enable Harmony and MCM before Smart Garrison.
- Start or load a campaign and review the settings in Mod Options. Settings take effect during play.
Balance food, wages, and defenders
Smart Garrison weighs a town’s lasting food supply and finances when setting its garrison target. Temporary food imports do not raise the lasting target, and recruiting is not accelerated during food stress.
- Default target: 150 base defenders plus a prosperity multiplier of 0.05.
- Financial safeguards start at a 20,000-denar reserve and four weeks of wages.
- Food safeguards start at +3 food per day, 40% stored food, and 14 days of supply.
- The defender floor starts at 125. Daily emergency relief is capped at 50 and weekly transfers at 20.
- At least 60% is retained when food is safe. Recruiting is boosted to 2.5× only while the food checks pass.
Campaign behavior and other garrison mods
Relief is limited: transfers to militia stay within their cap, and emergency releases affect non-hero troops only. Emergency releases do not occur during a siege.
The published release can be added to or removed from an existing campaign. Other recruiting or transfer mods may overlap; if another mod already accelerates recruitment, set Smart Garrison’s boost to 1.0×.
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Release notes
Version 1.0.3Nexus Mods
- Bases garrison food limits on lasting local supply rather than temporary market imports.
- Adds checks for granary reserves, days of remaining food, and a minimum food surplus before accelerated recruitment.
- Keeps normal recruitment when extra troops cannot be supported, and limits weekly militia transfers by food capacity and clan finances.
- Reduces oversized garrisons according to the food deficit while respecting daily limits and a minimum defender count.
- Protects food-aware troop transfers on Bannerlord 1.4.8.
- Avoids this mod's unnecessary save-version warning when upgrading from 1.0.0–1.0.2; warnings from other mods remain.
Version 1.0.3August 26, 2026Steam Workshop
- Improved food safeguards for AI garrisons in Bannerlord 1.4.8.
- Temporary market imports no longer allow permanent garrison growth.
- Garrison growth now considers stored food, how long supplies will last and your chosen food surplus.
- Oversized garrisons can shrink in proportion to food shortages while retaining a minimum defence.
- Protected troop transfers into food-stressed settlements.
- Removed this mod's unnecessary upgrade warning for the supported 1.0.0–1.0.2 to 1.0.3 update.
Version 1.0.2August 25, 2026Steam Workshop
- Updated for Bannerlord 1.4.8 stable and removed incorrect launcher version warnings.
- Refreshed the download and WPS presentation.
UpdateJune 1, 2026Steam Workshop
- Corrected Workshop categories and game-version filters to make the mod easier to find.
UpdateMay 27, 2026Steam Workshop
- Updated the download's game and required-mod information for Bannerlord 1.4.5.
Version 1.0.0May 27, 2026Steam Workshop
- First Steam Workshop release of version 1.0.0.