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edyzmedieval 19:38 07-18-2005
Hey guyz....

I was playing with Egypt. I was preparing for an attack against Numidia. I sent a 13 unit army to the nearest Numidian city. It took me 3 turns to get there. On my way, I pressed the mercenaries button and guess what I found:

Mercenary Hoplites

Has anyone experienced this?!

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caesar44 20:03 07-18-2005
I have one - you pressed the mercenaries button when your army was still in Egypt , Egypt was ruled by the Macedonians and they had mercenaries Greek hoplites

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Krauser 21:27 07-18-2005
Yeah, I found this too. I read a guide recently and it said if you have just destroyed an army a lot of times you can hire mercenaries who were former units in that army that routed.

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pezhetairoi 01:29 07-19-2005
I never knew that...

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Divine Wind 02:19 07-19-2005
Happens to me all the time!

I hired quite a few in my recent egypt campaign.

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Oaty 06:19 07-20-2005
Originally Posted by Krauser:
Yeah, I found this too. I read a guide recently and it said if you have just destroyed an army a lot of times you can hire mercenaries who were former units in that army that routed.
That must have been an MTW guide. As this feature is not in RTW

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eastsidehighrise 10:26 07-20-2005
Originally Posted by oaty:
That must have been an MTW guide. As this feature is not in RTW
well then in retrospect CA must really be questioned on why it left out that game feature when it had previously already been implemented...

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The Stranger 13:10 07-22-2005
Originally Posted by edyzmedieval:
Hey guyz....

I was playing with Egypt. I was preparing for an attack against Numidia. I sent a 13 unit army to the nearest Numidian city. It took me 3 turns to get there. On my way, I pressed the mercenaries button and guess what I found:

Mercenary Hoplites

Has anyone experienced this?!
i had it worse. i had eles in italy barb mercs in the desert and at last i could hire all ships and inhabitants of cities in a pack of 400 a time. RTR isnt it.

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Flavius Clemens 00:12 07-23-2005
Originally Posted by Emperor Umeu 1:
i had it worse. i had eles in italy barb mercs in the desert .
Could it be they'd been recruited elsewhere by the AI and then released from service in those areas and were looking for new employment to save them a long unpaid walk home?

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