Hello! The Slavs, currently, are only available as minor factions and therefore they're not able to be used as a standard faction nor you can select the slavic culture at start.

However, you can and are able to interact with them, trade with their merchants and/or fight them. With good relations (or by conquering them) you'll be able to recruit their soldiers or force their kings to follow you in battle.

The current early slavonic minor factions in game are the Sporoi, ancestors to Antes/Sklavenoi, and the Vistula Veneti.

Cheers

Originally posted by Wlodowiec:

Hello! The Slavs, currently, are only available as minor factions and therefore they're not able to be used as a standard faction nor you can select the slavic culture at start.

However, you can and are able to interact with them, trade with their merchants and/or fight them. With good relations (or by conquering them) you'll be able to recruit their soldiers or force their kings to follow you in battle.

The current early slavonic minor factions in game are the Sporoi, ancestors to Antes/Sklavenoi, and the Vistula Veneti.

Cheers

Okay thank you. Will they be updated and made into fully fledged factions eventually?

Originally posted by Leonard1475:

Originally posted by Wlodowiec:

Hello! The Slavs, currently, are only available as minor factions and therefore they're not able to be used as a standard faction nor you can select the slavic culture at start.

However, you can and are able to interact with them, trade with their merchants and/or fight them. With good relations (or by conquering them) you'll be able to recruit their soldiers or force their kings to follow you in battle.

The current early slavonic minor factions in game are the Sporoi, ancestors to Antes/Sklavenoi, and the Vistula Veneti.

Cheers

Okay thank you. Will they be updated and made into fully fledged factions eventually?

Our biggest issue is Warband's old engine: the game can bear only a certain amount of factions before it starts lagging because the game has hard times managing all the factions simultaneously. For this reason we had to limit ourselves to the most important factions of the time and many are still not in game and will be added in the next updates (Axum, Ghassanids, Lakhmids, Himyar, Hephthalites, Kidarites, etc)... Sooo... To shortly answer you, we will transform the slavic minor factions into proper factions if we find a way to bypass the engine limitations without causing lag that will make the game unplayable.

How can I get good relation with their leader? Is it by bringing gifts? Which and how many gifts?

Originally posted by josipjaksic.jak5:

How can I get good relation with their leader? Is it by bringing gifts? Which and how many gifts?

Yes you should bring gifts to him or to the wandering parties roaming around their town. Iirc, it should be 40 to be able to recruit their soldiers.