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Bandits Protect (Create your own army)

Everybody loves Error Code 0xFFFFFF! (If you don't know what I am talking about, you should visit the Deadlands more often.)
For all those who recruit mercenaries and skeletons to do their job or if you simply wished to lead your own bandit gang, this is a mod for you.

Recruitable Characters:
Hungry Bandits/Hungry Bandit Leaders
Starving Vagrants
Lost Drones
Holy Nation Outlaws

Features:
0) Recruit them with treats or by force!
1) They can bodyguard you.
2) They can guard your base.
3) You can order them to loot downed enemies.
4) You can order them to attack everything in sight. (Enemy and neutral)
5) After joining you they won't ask you or others for anything.
6) They will get stronger through fighting and you can change their equipment by picking them up and accessing their inventory.
7) If you give them a medkit they will heal you and their allies.
8) If you give them bolts they will use equipped crossbows.
9) You don't need to feed them like your own characters.
10) New dialogue.
11) They will distract BEAK THINGS for you! BEAK THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To do;
1) More dialogue
2) Make more bandit factions recruitable./Add a new "player" bandit faction into the game.
3) I want to make them use stuff around the base. If you have any idea, please tell me. The AI package for using mines and farms does not work on player buildings for now.

Attention:
They are still members of their faction. Therefore they will still attack some NPCs (Hungry Bandits will attack Holy Nation Outlaws for example) and they won't attack other members of their faction.
Try to leave the bandits at home, when you are visiting a city. Guards will recognize them as such if they attack someone and this will trigger uncontrollable slaughter. Unless you want exactly that of course.
They will despawn if you are in a different zone than them. In order to prevent that, get a character that stays at your outpost when you want your bandits to guard it. (Get a skeleton and set it on sneak in a corner of a building. Nobody will notice it and nobody despawns.) If you save the game, make sure that you have all your recruited squads in the current zone in which you are. Otherwise they will be gone if you load that save.
Vagrants will still try to attack you, so you have to be fast to be able to talk to them. If you have manged to get them but some are attacking you, you can stop them by ordering them to protect you. They won't be able to hurt you, but you can still damage them.

Tips:
Pick them up and give a few of them a medkit as soon as possible. It will increase their survivabilty a lot.
If you pick them up, they won't care that you are stealing all their stuff. You can change their gear too when they are unconscious, but they will attack you if they wake up while being robbed. This will lock them in an infinite loop of hitting you while not doing any damage.
The leader will change as soon as he is incapable of conversation. (dead, getting picked up, etc.) A different bandit will become the new squad leader. Since I have given the dialogue for ordering stuff to the leader, you will need to find him/her to give orders. (Just hover the mouse over them and you will see the speech bubble pop up over the new leader.) Usually the leader is the green dot on the map.

Since this is my first mod, I am already sorry for all ocurring bugs.

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Have fun with your new army!