Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Blood Pact
Give your kingdom a ruthless offensive policy that prevents attacking forces from surrendering or retreating. That resolve comes at a higher recruitment cost.
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What it brings to your game
New kingdom policy
No surrender or retreat for attackers
10% higher recruitment costs
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Requirements
For Bannerlord 1.4.8 stable single-player with Native, SandBoxCore, and Sandbox on that game version. Requires Harmony 2.4.2.225 or a compatible release. No optional dependencies are listed.
Installation
- Install Harmony. Subscribe on Steam, install and deploy the Nexus download with Vortex, or place the complete WPS_BloodPact folder in Modules.
- Enable Blood Pact after Harmony and load your campaign.
Enact Blood Pact
Open Kingdom → Policies, propose Blood Pact, and enact it through the normal vote. It can be repealed through the same policy system.
The policy commits an attacking kingdom to its campaign encounters and sieges. Surrender, pre-battle leave options, and retreat through lord dialogue are blocked for the attacking side; computer-controlled attackers no longer choose campaign-map retreat. Defenders follow normal rules.
Individual soldiers’ battlefield morale is unchanged. If the player retreats from inside a battle, the game’s normal defeat and capture consequences still apply.
Policy costs and voting
Recruitment costs increase by 10% for the affected kingdom, including player, computer-controlled, and garrison recruitment. The increase appears in the cost breakdown.
Authoritarian lords favor the policy, oligarchic lords are more moderate, and egalitarian lords oppose it.
Existing campaigns and other policies
The policy can be added to an existing campaign. Removing the mod removes the policy and its effects.
Mods that alter encounter retreat, surrender, or recruitment costs can overlap. Check that Blood Pact is enacted in the attacking kingdom when testing its effects.
A closer look
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Release notes
Version 1.0.2Nexus Mods
- Updates support and listed requirements for Bannerlord 1.4.8.
- Removes outdated launcher warnings.
- Refreshes the player download and WPS artwork.
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.
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.