General ideas

You cannot recruit when under siege. This is hardcoded and cannot be changed.

For EBI, there was discussion of a "garrison script" that will spawn weak units when a town is under siege to represent the fact that the towns folk are being armed. The script however would require a huge increase to the already bulky script and was decided against. There is also the problem of the fact you can't disband those units to make those towns folk go back to their old jobs if they manage to lift the siege.

But how did CA get the idea that during a seige you can't recruit? I mean in every single book on anchent and medieval warfare it says about levying troops from the populace.....

Originally Posted by Cyrus

But how did CA get the idea that during a seige you can't recruit? I mean in every single book on anchent and medieval warfare it says about levying troops from the populace.....

Nobody knows

Well, it would be pretty annoying to be trying to starve out a town in vanilla, waiting 12 turns, and they create an entire Praetorian Legion within the city. It's reasons are tied to gameplay.

And the fact that it is easier to not be able to recruit anything than only to be able to recruit levies. That would take up much coding and memory and extra difficulty for the AI to cope with.

So much extra work for something that can be solved simply by making recruitment unavailable during seiges.


Another option would be to make all recruitment possible, but then you'd get what MAA says.

Oh sorry, you guys do know why did so.

city garrison script is simply annoying.... I must use catapults against antioch, rome, carthago, or syrakusai in XGM... to kill them in the very first turn!