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    I like R:TW's system better although in my opinion I'd rather see the techtree system not being used at all for recruitment. Never have I read something like: "King Edward III did not have a Level 3 Spearmaker in Wessex. As a result his army was severly lacking Knights." I've seen this game mechanic too many times, it's time to move on, please.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Duke John
    I like R:TW's system better although in my opinion I'd rather see the techtree system not being used at all for recruitment. Never have I read something like: "King Edward III did not have a Level 3 Spearmaker in Wessex. As a result his army was severly lacking Knights." I've seen this game mechanic too many times, it's time to move on, please.
    Hehehe, agreed. Something new would be nice!

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    I agree with "The_678". The game will be much more fun, when you have to combine different buildings in order to get a unit. This way you have to consider sometimes, which buildings to build first.

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    I agree with duke John. Something similar to the feudal recruitment system would be nice. You wouldn't have a standing army except a very small group that would be your household troops. Armies could only be kept together for a certain time after wich it dissolves again. The number of men recruited would be in comparison with the inhabitants in an area calculated together with your influence, dread and the loyalty of the local lords. Maybe even involving some diplomacy: you could give some favorable conditions to cities and lords in order to gain more troops. The quality of your troops would be calculated by the riches of the land, the technology level in those parts and the recruitment ground (meaning cities give militia, castles give knights and MAA). If you wanted to bulk up your army you could also recruit some mercenaries.
    Except for the mercenaries, there wouldn't be any recruitment cost but the upkeep should be enormous.
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    I think that their is already a new recruitment system. Just knowing that their will be castles and cities gives you that thought.
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    Being able to recruit unit a + b+ c from castles and only unit a from cities is not really a new system. Heck, we already had that in the Middle Earth: Total War mod for M:TW-VI.

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    But that isn't the case as far as I know. It has been said in an interview, that improved cities can recruit better units than castles.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Duke John
    I like R:TW's system better although in my opinion I'd rather see the techtree system not being used at all for recruitment. Never have I read something like: "King Edward III did not have a Level 3 Spearmaker in Wessex. As a result his army was severly lacking Knights." I've seen this game mechanic too many times, it's time to move on, please.
    You may want to review the rise of the Republic of France and how it was then able to conquour so much of Europe. It could be put like this.

    "Napolean having access to Paris which was becoming one of the greatest arms producing cities in Europe allowed him the ability to field a well armed national force."


    Nonetheless, in the 1780s, under the artillery service's aegis, the inventor Honor& Blanc set up a machine shop in the keep of the Chateau de Vincennes where he achieved the first interchangeable parts manufacture for muskets. Meanwhile, everywhere else in France military gun production collapsed and did not revive until the crisis of 1793. The republic's desperate struggle to massproduce weapons despite a severe shortage of gunsmiths led to the huge state-run Paris Arms Manufacture. Low-skill labor and radical politics determined production practices. Quantity superseded quality
    Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815


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    His remarkable series of military triumphs were a result of his ability to apply his encyclopedic knowledge of conventional military thought to real-world situations, as demonstrated by his creative use of artillery tactics, using it as a mobile force to support his infantry. As he described it: "I have fought sixty battles and I have learned nothing which I did not know at the beginning." Contemporary paintings of his headquarters during the Italian campaign depict his use of the world's first telecommunications system, the Chappe semaphore line, first implemented in 1792. He was also a master of both intelligence and deception and had an uncanny sense of when to strike. He often won battles by concentrating his forces on an unsuspecting enemy by using spies to gather information about opposing forces and by concealing his own troop deployments.
    Upgarded tech... telecommunications, the use of spies etc
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