Replacing mercenarys with 'normal' units?

[Che Roriniho]

Hey there, a thought recently crossed my mind (It didn't take it long [it didn't have far to go]): why do we have 2 seperate units for, among others, Peltastae, Toxotoi Kretikoi, and others (1 as a mercenary, one, well, not)
Would it be simple to simply erase the mercenary version and replace it with the standard version? because no new units are being created or anything, I'm guessing it would just be editing various text files.
I cannot see why, historically, a Mercenary Cretan Archer couldn't be retrained in Crete back to it's full potential.
This would make mercenaries a much more useful option, especially if you're playing as someione like epieros, who historically fielded very large mercenary armies. Plus, retraining would be able to be utilized.

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Only mercenary units can be recruited as mercenaries.

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[Che Roriniho]

but for instance, Noricum Spearmen and Tekastos can be recruited as Noricum Spearmen and Tekastos, whereas Peltastai are suddenly 'Mercenary Peltasts'. there is no difference in stats, so why is it like this in some cases, and not in others?

[MerlinusCDXX]

*I'm not a team member, so I may not be 100% correct,* but I think it has something to do with getting around the unit limit for RTW. Yeah, some mercs are retrainable, barracks-recruitable, and don't have the merc designation (ex. Samnites, Persian Heavy Archers, Kamboja Lt. Cav.), even though they have been hired as mercs. Some merc units have the merc designation (misthophoroi-Greek, mizdaghan-Persian , cur----{Gallic}), but they are recruitable for some factions from a barracks. (ex. Misthophoroi Thraikioi Prodromoi, Misthophoroi Thraikioi Peltastai)








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[Che Roriniho]

*I'm not a team member, so I may not be 100% correct,* but I think it has something to do with getting around the unit limit for RTW. Yeah, some mercs are retrainable, barracks-recruitable, and don't have the merc designation (ex. Samnites, Persian Heavy Archers, Kamboja Lt. Cav.), even though they have been hired as mercs. Some merc units have the merc designation (misthophoroi-Greek, mizdaghan-Persian , cur----{Gallic}), but they are recruitable for some factions from a barracks. (ex. Misthophoroi Thraikioi Prodromoi, Misthophoroi Thraikioi Peltastai)








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I'm not quite surw I understand you. Surely any new units would only ADD to the total number of units. also, you cannot recruit misthoporoi Thaikioi peltastae, only Thrakioi peltastae.

[MerlinusCDXX]

umm, as Arkhe Seleukeia and as Ptolemaioi, when I build a level 4 regional barracks in Nikaia, I can recruit Misthophoroi Thraikioi Prodromoi and Misthophoroi Thraikioi Peltastai, and the units have the "merc" designation in the recruit window (they are named the full name that I typed out). I don't know exactly why they did it like that, though it could be that there are hardcoded separate slots for "factional" units and "merc" units (I think I did read this in an old post here).