Well, here is my experiences recruiting Fogmen. After approximately 30 days of gametime sitting and watching cages for chances to recruit, I have gotten 2. I was going for a full Fogman squad, but this 20-40% is more like 2-4%. Most boring game of Kenshi I've tried to play yet. I'm just going to mod in my own starter squad of Fogmen and dump this mod. Percentages are too low.

EDIT: So I opened up the mod and it is exactly what the author says it is. I don't know how I get that kind of RNG. Now I feel obligated to try for more. Sigh.

EDIT2: After loading the game I immediately recruited 6 in a row, then proceeded in a more comfortable ~20% success rate (although my Fog Prince has his own head in a bag). It almost seemed like the game was "stuck" and needed a save and load cycle.

Back to the original question, it's best left for you to discover I think, but once you get someone recruited, just try to repeat that sequence until you know what is happening.

Glad that got worked out for you Tarsis :-)

You put a ton of work into this, now that I've gotten out of Mongrel and started back out into the wider world I can really start to appreciate it more. Enough for me to get off my backside and rate up.

Except the broken skeleton.... except for that... j/k

Cheers Tarsis, i'm quite happy with how the skeleton turned out. was probably the most work haha. Swamp ninjas and HN troops also have quite full dialogue.

What Dialogue path do you need to follow to recruit an inquisitor. Ive been trying all for the past hourish and now its just super annoying

First thing if I remember right is the squad had to be only greenlander males.

@jewoine thanks for trying the mod. As Tarsis said, prisoners need to me unarmed. Then you need a squad of only Greenlander males. Next there are two 'chance gates' of about 40% each. I believe you should try to have a rational debate with him.

Hey there. Thanks for the mod! Can you please let me know what you need to do to recruit Fogmen, and if there's any fix for prisoners disappearing from cages when my main character goes on a long journey away from base?

Hey there, Glad you like it!,
Fogmen first option then second option, then its only a 20% chance to join. Hope that helps

Currently there is no way to stop prisoners disapearing :-( it's part of the way the base game handles memory

This is unreal. Literally the first time I tried it after your message I got it. Cracked up laughing. Thanks again for the mod and your advice!

Thanks for the help.

@nanogiraffe so would that be where you talk to him about mercy? which is along the second dialogue path or where you ask him what he thinks the world should be like, along the first dialogue. Sorry i know your supposed to figure it out but ive spent the last week with this guy in a cage

no worries @Jewoine Try 2-1-1-1-1-1-1 then it's a 10% chance
the first is something like 'why so much hate?' or 'What did skeletons etc.." then the first option until the chance gate. The chance is low so you might have to try a few times.

I personally have had varying luck with the Holy Empire troops sometimes I'll recruit two in a row on the first try, others I'll take fifteen tries. However one issue I run into is when I have prisoners in cages I'll have no option to converse with them, even when I've disarmed them and have my Greenlander male talking to them. Not sure why.

Shek warriors are giving me problems i would like to know the requirements so i can play for that instead of hitting a wall every now and then. i just captured my second one lol