Faction Reforms

[B-Wing]

Err..have you played EB1?

Doesn't sound like it.

Ichon, in EB each faction has two unique lines of building trees which only they (and possibly one or two other similar factions) can recruit from. So, a level 5 Roman barracks won't provide any units to Carthaginians if they take over the city, for instance.

[Ichon]

Doesn't sound like it.

Ichon, in EB each faction has two unique lines of building trees which only they (and possibly one or two other similar factions) can recruit from. So, a level 5 Roman barracks won't provide any units to Carthaginians if they take over the city, for instance.

I remember that in RTW several different mods not just EB made use of those unique building tree lines but I haven't seen that done in MTW2. I guess the capability is still there just most mods don't use it instead prefering to phase in units over time or restrict to AOR.

[B-Wing]

That may very well be the case. The only M2TW mods I've played are Stainless Steel and Third Age. To go a little more in depth, EB1 actually uses both "area of recruitment" and faction-specific recruitment buildings, in conjunction. So what units a faction can recruit depend both on what provinces they control and what infrastructure they have built there. Generally speaking, a faction's most elite troops are only available in it's Homeland regions with top-tier barracks. In their more far-flung holdings, they can only recruit relatively lower quality regional troops. It's different for every faction, and quite complicated, which is why there's a program called Recruitment Viewer which can be downloaded from the official EB website.

Evidently there's going to be some changes to the system for EB2, hopefully making things a little less confusing.