Spontaneous unit replenishment

**Barbarossa82** · 04-06-2006, 11:46

I've been playing RTW since it came out and I've never seen anything like this before. Hardly massive in game terms but nevertheless interesting.

Playing as Spain, I've used my initial unit of Scutarii in many battles, and eventually they were down to just 1 man with three gold chevrons. After the unit's last battle outside Narbo Martius, I decided to send the lonely Scutarius down to Corduba so he could be retrained into a full unit. He had just crossed the Pyrenees when I saved the game and exited.
Reloading the campaign the next day, the Scutarii unit is 2 strong. That's right, 2 men instead of the 1 it had when I left it. I put this down to my faulty memory, thinking maybe it had 2 all along.
However, a couple of turns later as the unit approached Corduba, I checked them once more and they had FOUR men! Where were they coming from?? I never got to see if the unit would regenerate further as they were attacked and annihilated by rebels before reaching the safety of the city.
Anyone else noticed units spontaneously gaining men, or know why it happens?

**Craterus** · 04-06-2006, 11:48

Maybe this guy was gaining followers, since he was such an awesome warrior and all...

**Watchman** · 04-06-2006, 13:13

I once read somewhere modding-related that the minimum number of men you could initially give an unit was 6. Could it be that the game over time "respawns" reinforcements to massively depleted units to put them at at least that mark ?

'Course, Craterus' theory isn't without its merits either.

**Viking** · 04-06-2006, 16:07

I don`t even know how a one-man-unit managed to survive in the first place.

**Ciaran** · 04-06-2006, 17:51

They don´t survive a battle, if a unit goes under a certain number of men (eight, I think) it is automatically disbanded after the battle. However, if you merge units of thhe strategic map it can very well happen that you´ve got units with one man in them. But then again, I´ve never seen a self-replenishing with those.

**Barbarossa82** · 04-06-2006, 18:09

Originally Posted by Ciaran

They don´t survive a battle, if a unit goes under a certain number of men (eight, I think) it is automatically disbanded after the battle. However, if you merge units of thhe strategic map it can very well happen that you´ve got units with one man in them. But then again, I´ve never seen a self-replenishing with those.

I had not merged the unit since I only had one Scutarii unit at that time - it had been there at the beginning and I didn't have a ability to train more until after the unit had been depleted to 1 man. I think the auto-disbandment you're talking about only happens if there is more than one unit of a given type in a stack, and it merges them if there is less than 8 (or whatever the actual threshhold number is) men in one or both of the units.