Military administration?

[Trithemius]

Hi everyone!

I've noticed that one of my Foreign Advisors has a particularly high "military administration" score and I've been trying to work out exactly what this means.

"Supervising recruitment" appears to (significantly! e.g. Imperial Guard Infantry are now 260 to raise!) reduce my recruitment costs; "training troops" appears to steadily increase XP of units stacked with the Foreign Advisor; I can't determine what "military administration" does though.

Anyone got any intel?

[Lemur]

I believe "military administration" reduces the upkeep of troops in which the advisor is embedded. But I could be wrong.

[Trithemius]

Sounds plausible Lemur!

*dashes off to check a save game*
Hmm, I moved an advisor I had stacked with a garrison out of the settlement and then ended turn - a comparison of the Army Upkeep seems to suggest no change sadly. :(
Perhaps it does something else, or doesn't count with garrisons, or...?

[Grin]

Military administration reduces the recruitment cost in any province the vet is in when he's not enbedded into an army or town, I believe.

[Lemur]

Well, that's a not-terribly-helpful stat, then. The purchase price isn't the problem with units; it's the upkeep. You can almost always scrape together enough cash to buy a unit.

[quadalpha]

Military administration reduces the recruitment cost in any province the vet is in when he's not enbedded into an army or town, I believe.

Wait, so that means you can move him from province to province on the same turn and have cheaper recruitment, since costs are deducted when you order the recruitment and not at end of turn?

[Grin]

hmm I suppose that might work.

Geisha have a similar stat called Perform.
I think the point is to make them passively useful when your moving them around or using them against enemies in or near your territory.