Befriending mercenary bands

[bigbabybowser]

So I've started in Pictland a few times at the Charlemagne bookmark. Inevitably the Scottish Band who's titular capital is located in my territory has an event that pops up asking me if I want to invite him to banquet. If you succeed he becomes your friend and the button you click says "A new friend, perhaps I should give him some land..." But there appears no way to do this. Is this a bug? Is there a way to do it?

Additionally, I see very little benefit of the friendship. When he does join my wars, he has no troops to contribute. When he gives me gold, he has no gold to give. You can't marry him, and it doesn't appear he can command your armies. Scottish Band doesn't even show up in the Army>Mercenary list, so it's not like I can hire his band for cheap or anything. This is especially frustrating because the first Scottish band captain is one of my ancestors and I really want to land him! (The story goes that the name was a Scottish group that held a castle in scottland, which eventually fell. They became glasglow mercenaries until they eventually settled in Ireland.) Can someone help put this to rest?

 

[DPS]

Can you invite him to your court? If you can and he accepts, then you should be able to land him.

 

[bigbabybowser]

Can you invite him to your court? If you can and he accepts, then you should be able to land him.

It doesn't look like it. All I can do is invite him to the banquet :/ Weirdly enough, occassionally an event will fire saying my daughter and he eloped, but that just seems to make him my rival and he doesn't end up married on his character screen

 

[Arsonik]

I never thought about it until this thread, but since the mercenaries in this game ignore diplomatic range limits you could technically carouse with any of the mercenaries in the game from any spot on the map. I don't know what benefit that would be to you but, hey, learn something every day.

 

[Lucian667]

I think its a bug. The devs clearly intended to allow you to land him or they wouldn't have written the "A new friend, perhaps I should give him some land..." line but they dont seem to be aware that the game offers no way at all to do it. Maybe submit it as a bug and if we're lucky the powers that be might actually give it some thought.

 

[kmh42]

I was under the impression that only nomadic merc bands (adventurer sons and brothers from Kahn's) can be landed.
In my current Axum game, I also befriended some predefined mercs and couldn't do nothing woth them except hire them for the usual fee. I my last Zoroastrian game I had plenty merc available but non nomadic ones, even those realms was just next to me. Slowly I get the impression that the mercs mechanics are a little bit bugged or I missing information.