Limiting Elite Units

**The Stranger** · 03-25-2005, 14:11

yeah and when you upgrade your bare-chested swordsmen armour and they are experienced you get a chosen swordsmen unit, but i don't that is possible, just have to wait for a few years.

**The Stranger** · 03-25-2005, 14:11

btw experience isn't the only factor, money is too

**khelvan** · 03-25-2005, 21:46

You can't retrain units to be something else. This isn't MTW in that respect, unfortunately.

**Steppe Merc** · 03-26-2005, 00:46

that's true, but i think it's up to the player to decide if he wants to play historical or just for fun. a computer can't really decide and will never field a army of elites only, a human can so if he plays historical he won't too, but if he wants to play for fun i just might.

Dude, the point of the mod is history.

**Southern Hunter** · 03-26-2005, 06:18

Turin,

I think that you have made a good suggestion. There needs to be some way to limit elite troops, and cost alone is not enough to do it in the current system. Since we can't have hastati becoming principe (game mechanics don't allow it), then making elite troops take longer to train would be a good mechanism.

No matter how expensive and long it takes to train elite troops, you know that there will always be a temptation to use them, at least a unit here and there :-)

Hunter

**jerby** · 03-26-2005, 15:39

well, you could balance it in such a way. that (example) a unit of phalanx pikemen with 5 experience is just as powerfull as silver shields.

**Khan48** · 04-07-2005, 05:57

I think it should be left alone how it is. I personally would not want to have realism shoved down my throat. A little self control is all that is needed to maintain realistic armies. It may be a mod of realism but no one will play it if they can't have a little fun. At teh least offer some kind of option to turn it on and off.