First thing you NEED to know: companions are randomized every game. It is entirely possible that you simply do not have any of these guys in your save file. Secondly, this is not the optimum way to find people. Instead, open your encyclopedia and go to the heroes tab. Filter by wanderer occupation. Enjoy.
The only way to prevent them from dying is to hide them out of combat. Or assign them to a special group 5-8 retreat them immediately once battle starts. I've even had easy fights against bandits, where only 1 guy on my side died from a random javelin and it happens to be a companion, GG. #5. In the worst case, just a hard limit on number of companions turned in to vassals. At least over a period of time. Currently you can go around in each town, recruit any companion and turn them all in to nobles. 5 means 15 new nobles, and 10 of them have good stats as they are not generated as companions, and like that the faction is so much One of the best features about medieval party sim Mount and Blade: Bannerlord is the ability to recruit randomly generated companions. These companions differ from regular troop as they are unique single companions with names. They have other utilities outside of battle as well with the ability to promote them and allow them to form their own So crossbows do have that going for them, especially if you position your soldiers behind a chest high wall. They are easier to equip, and they do more damage for untrained companions. Bows are a long term investment, in terms of player time, because you need combat time for your companions to get gud. 2yXf6M.