Cost of Retaining units (not reTRAIN)

[SlackerXS]

How do AI calculate these?... does it make a dif if I put units in castle or not?...

Is having a border fort cheaper than leaving a shinobi in a province?

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SlackER ~ Extreme

[Zone]

Shinobi can't be captured but BF's can. If the enemy take your province, having shinobi will help a rebellion back to you but BF's are either captured or demolished.

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Fight first, then scream 'Doh, why did I forget my Kensi!'

[Moriboy]

Retraining cost is a simple ratio proportion math problem. If 60 Ashis cost 100 koku to produce a unit, and you retrain a depleted unit of 50, the cost is 10 koku. Thats 10 men to fill out the unit. Retraining can be free as when one re-trains a band of (say 60 when the unit high is 60) high honor what-have-you's for a weapons & armor upgrade. This is a good thing to do when the koku's low and you want better quality troops.

As to the shinobi question, I decide on a case by case basis. I always try to keep 3 shinobis with my good generals at all times.

[Vanya]

Each individual samurai costs 1 koku per year to maintain, but Ashigaru cost only 1/2 koku per year. Shinobis, ninjas and geishas all count as 1 samurai.

Sooo... a 60 man unit of YS costs 60 koku per year to maintain. A 60 man unit of Ashigaru only costs 30.

A depleted unit of Naginata then, at 10 men, would then cost 10 koku per year.

It says this in the manual somewhere...

Make sense?

[SlackerXS]

Quote Originally posted by Moriboy:
Retraining cost is a simple ratio proportion math problem. If 60 Ashis cost 100 koku to produce a unit, and you retrain a depleted unit of 50, the cost is 10 koku. Thats 10 men to fill out the unit. Retraining can be free as when one re-trains a band of (say 60 when the unit high is 60) high honor what-have-you's for a weapons & armor upgrade. This is a good thing to do when the koku's low and you want better quality troops.

As to the shinobi question, I decide on a case by case basis. I always try to keep 3 shinobis with my good generals at all times. [/QUOTE]

Thanks for the info... but I was asking about reTAINing instead of retraining units... :P

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SlackER ~ Extreme

[Sandy-San]

do you mean not getting them bribed to turn against you by enemy emissaries?

('cause I'd be interested in how that works)

[Moriboy]

Whoops, sorry dude... So used to seeing the
other question.