Horde Question

[Kickius Buttius]

50% of your horde will disband and settle in the first city that you occupy

25% (or half of the remainder) in the next city

25% (the rest) in the third city

As mentioned, it is best to try to time your sieges/attacks so that you take three cities on the same turn. If you don't have many non-horde units, then hire mercs and put some in the stacks outside each city. When you take the city, these mercs can serve as garrisons until you are able to recruit replacements.

[professorspatula]

Actually it's 33% of your horde that disbands on the capture of the first city (if the horde contains peasant units they tend to all disband first), then 50% of your remaining horde disbands the next time you settle, finally the rest of the horde on the third settlement. That is according to the descr_sm_factions.txt file that controls the hordes as well as other things. The manual is wrong. In theory you can edit how much of the horde disbands each time, so that you can settle in several cities before the horde disappears entirely.