This past weekend I attempted to do the Wandering Knight quest. I put the quest marker for the bandit camp on my map, set up my troops just outside the camp and made a save called “bandit raid gone bad”. I lost the battle completely, several times. I never had time to do an incremental save during the battle as they killed us too fast.
On the final reload I noticed that the quest marker was no longer on the camp. On closer inspection I saw that the entire camp was empty. The flag inside the camp showed “already cleared”. There were no loot bags on the ground to indicate that anyone had been killed.
I returned to the Wandering Knight on the beach further south and had credit for quest complete. He gave me the kite shield.
I’m not complaining mind you. I don’t think I could have cleared this camp otherwise and the shield is very nice. I doubt this quest was intended to be a freebie though. Just letting you know.