Recruiting elites in EB2.

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And who is going to "armor him up"?

He himself is going to have to do that. And before he can do that, he must be able to afford to do so.
To be able to afford this, he must be of a certain rich social class which has loads of money and the time to train with the bought equipment; some kind of elite of the society.

Now, as you hopefully know, not everyone swims in the money and has all the time of the world on their hands; not now and not in ancient times. Thus elites were rare, and it is EB's goal to represent this fact in the game.

HHHHMMMMM I seem to recall their being a lot of rich empires back then, I guess Rome was the only empire to armor their troops. So show up for battle but bring you own stuff, um ok. A professional army was not unheard of then, not all empires were composed of rabble, several empires could pay wages and for equipment. If you can afford armor for a regular unit, then you can for your elites. So I guess every time an elite is recruited from the normal rank and file, he had to keep his old gear? I think not, the government/empire issued it too him. No one would join the ranks of the elites if they had crappy gear.

If it was that way, then very few would come to fight, no one could afford armor. The leaders must have been oozing charisma to get poor people owning nothing to come and fight for them.



Lots of soldiers took armor from the vanquished.


First off let me say I dont want to run around with all elites, if the recruitable number was limited I have no prob with it, but if I can afford 5 stacks of elites right now then I should be able to recruit them. Not recruit one stack, wait 3 seasons, recruit another, etc, etc. Sometimes it takes elites to beat the Romans. That way the Romans will overrun or weaken you to the extent of where you cant fight back. But if there is 300 elites available I should be able to recruit them.

According to your own concept, there should be no non-elite units. I mean, it's easy to ask 1 guy to train 10 other dudes, who each train 10 other dudes. And anyway, training is useless, it's all about guns and stuff.

LOL ok. In ancient warfare yes, it was more so that way. But you cant apply that to todays armies, where its probably 80% soldier 20% equipment, armies of today are pretty much uniform worldwide.