Hey guys, Im just wondering if anyone knows how this will work in M2. Will it be the same system as in RTW/BI or will it be more like the system from M1 where the mercs moved without being seen from province to province. ??
Mercenary recruitment
Hey guys, Im just wondering if anyone knows how this will work in M2. Will it be the same system as in RTW/BI or will it be more like the system from M1 where the mercs moved without being seen from province to province. ??
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Re: Mercenary recruitment
From what i've seen it looks like mercenary crusade armies can be recruited by your crusading army, and the rest of the mercenaries are recruited from cities themselves as shown by this screenie:
http://www.g4mers.com/images/previews/shot_22_499.jpg
Re: Mercenary recruitment
Originally Posted by Ano2
no no no, that is a screen of the new recrutment pools in action thats all mercs are most likely gonna be hired like they always are
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Ah true my bad.
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Being a junior member is annoying since I can't start a topic for this and I really don't want to hijack this one.
But I wonder if it will be worth buying MTW 2 immediately. Knowing the difference that the patches made to Rome Total War, I wonder if it would be wise to wait a few months.
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The demo comes out soon which will be a good indicator of what the game will be like. If you're still unsure, I would give it a few days to see what the vets have to say on the game. I doubt it will be as buggy/flawed as RTW as this is built on the same engine so hopefully a lot of the quirks will have been ironed out. Of course it will need patching, all games do, but I'm hopeful it will be playable OOB, as MTW was.
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The Entrance Hall is for junior members to start topics like this. There was one similar one recently (wait for M2TW or buy RTW).
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Yeah except that hardly anyone goes to the Entrance Hall.
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Patience, young padawan, you will be a member soon enough
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i would just buy the game right away im already camped out of eb games
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I liked the system from RTW hope it is the same or very similier
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I think it is very similar if not the same
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I think this is the answer:
http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/arti...0035943672.jpg
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I think that screenie is actually for Crusader recruitment, not mercenaries. It looks like a screen-shot taken from the video on crusades & religion.
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Re: Mercenary recruitment
Mercenary recruitment is similar to the crusader units recruitment. You can see: "Mercenary units available for hire" and also "Selected Mercearies". Nowhere is pointed the word "crusader" (or similar)... This is my opinion anyway...
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You are right I think and it is probably the same thing... Rather than having a different recruitment method crusaders just get to recruit some unique (for the crusading army that is) mercenaries on the cheap; in the picture one wagon thing and one unit of cav are 40 (florins?)...
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cool, cheers BaldwinIV.
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May be this is crusader bonus or just something which will be fixed...
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I wouldnt worry to much about that pic as the english are in the holy land with no 'map trail' to show how they got there.
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I think the crusader "mercenaries" will be pretty cheap to hire and of course until the crusade is over they have no upkeep cost.
Regular mercenaries will most likely be priced normally...
Underdog687 is correct to of course, it is from a development screeny and we will not know for sure until we get the release version...
Last edited by Bob the Insane; 09-20-2006 at 18:54.
Re: Mercenary recruitment
i liked the fact that any units you disbanded in M1 would become merc units. I also liked the fact that you could pick different merc units in each province every turn, kinda representing the mercs moving about towards warzones etc. to make money.
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"Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical"
Sun Tzu the Art of War
Blue eyes for our samurai
Red blood for his sword
Your ronin days are over
For your home is now the Org
By Gregoshi
Re: Mercenary recruitment
I believe that it is a good thing that you can recruit unique crusade units, however is there a way of telling if the "mercenaries" are local mercenaries or crusader units?
Perhaps you can get mercenaries only for a certain faction, and the amount of those unique 1 faction units become more vast as you conquer more lands?
sounds kind of silly but that could be the situation
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can someone tell me exactly when the demo will come out?
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This or next month
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Well I'll be, i had no idea we were going to have even a taste of it near this date.
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what do you think underdog?
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I think Crusades will be able to recruit very cheap merc units, including unique crusader units - which is a very nice touch because one can now choose which unique units show up at your crusade. Furthermore, this system allows a crusade to march along its way while recruiting more people.
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i agree, on gamespot (.com) the M2:TW preview's on there are great, it has 3 official trailer that give you a basic insight into battle,settlements and religion
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