A potentially controversial suggestion

[Rahwana]

Create each faction's garrison unit with different names and types, yet use the script to disband them at the end of each turn?

Just a suggestion

Regards

~Jirisys (too many Enter key pressing)

if you made each culture got each garrison units, and made eastern and western hellenes garrison unit as one unit (quite possible) then you'll need:
- hellene
- roman
- semitic
- nomad
- barbarian
- eastern
and that was 6 unit slots... while maybe we can assign roman milites for roman, citizen militia for semitic, militia archers for nomads, tribal warband for barbarian, and levies for easterners...

[WinsingtonIII]

while maybe we can assign roman milites for roman, citizen militia for semitic, militia archers for nomads, tribal warband for barbarian, and levies for easterners...

But if you're using existing, recruitable units, then if you script disband all of them after the siege is lifted, you will be deleting all units of this type for this faction, including the recruited ones. Plus, what happens if there are multiple sieges going on at once? If one ends, then you end up deleting the garrison script for the other city under siege as well....

If you want a garrison script, you're pretty much going to have to give up on trying to disband the units (no mod I know of has managed to pull it off), which may end up bankrupting the AI or giving the player lots of free units (if you give the player the garrison script too, lots of mods do not though, which I understand from a gameplay perspective but is kind of silly when one rational you give for a garrison script is historical accuracy).

[seienchin]

I also think 6 -12 new units just for garrisoning would be great, but the question is, if the modders are willing to do so. ;)
If you would make a submod for EB you would have to take alex.exe, because its the only one with more units slots.
You could just copy for example the lugoai modell and give it another name etc. and it wouldnt be too hard to mod.

[paleologos]

What is the limit in unit slots (if any)?

[Cute Wolf]

I suggest adding 2 or 3 unit per besieged settlements is not too hard to have about, but not made the AI crippled, because they will be cheap units:
- Romans : 2 rorarii
- W hellenes : 2 hoplitai haploi 1 akontistai
- E hellenes + Hay & Pontos : 3 pantodapoi
- Celts : 2 lugoae, 1 Gaesatae (just strip off your cloth and took drugs are easy enough right ... oh wait, there is no Aesterix)
- Sweboz : 1 Gaezosfulxom Fryod, 2 Jugundiz
- Lusotann : 2 Caetranann
- Getai : 2 Drapanai, 1 Komatai
- Sauro / Saka / Pahlava : 2 basic HA unit
- Sabyn : 2 bnei shevet aravim

[Fluvius Camillus]

I thougth this was already in EBII?

In some preview they told about the new way Kleurochoi Phalanghitai were going to be used. They would receive very high upkeep but fast and easy recruitment (as a last rescue). The units would take up the free upkeep slots of the city. However, this only resolves the problem for Western and Eastern Hellenes. And to get the AI to understand this.

~Fluvius

[WinsingtonIII]

I thougth this was already in EBII?

In some preview they told about the new way Kleurochoi Phalanghitai were going to be used. They would receive very high upkeep but fast and easy recruitment (as a last rescue). The units would take up the free upkeep slots of the city. However, this only resolves the problem for Western and Eastern Hellenes. And to get the AI to understand this.

~Fluvius

That wasn't actually a garrison script though I don't think. Yes, they will be meant to be used that way, but I doubt the AI will realize that. The garrison script is primarily just to give the AI cities a defense because it rarely garrisons its cities effectively.