Recruitment pools (again)

[Bob the Insane]

Can you make an army of just top noch units or do you have a limit of how many units can be produced by that given settlement, i.e. you can only have 3 living units of scot guards?

The assumption at the moment is that the recruitment pool is not linked to existing numbers of troops (though I think that could be a pretty cool mechanisim).

So to get this straight, we have two sets of controls to the number of units.

One is a recuitment pool for each unit type available which once increases over time based on the unit type and possibly the level of the settlement/buildings (in the example image we see 2 turns left until a 4th militia unit is available to recruit, but no mention on how long we have already waited).

Two is the limited number of recruitment slots available at a settlement, which refreshes every turn, based once again on settlement size and type perhaps.

So in the image above, you could recruit 2 militia units this turn leaving only 1 in the pool. So the following turn you could recruit only one,plus one of a different type. This would leave the militia recuit pool at zero, but the following turn that would be incrimented by 1 and you could once again hire one.

Additionally there is also an assuption at the moment that retraining works as before and is not linked to the new recruitment machanisim. Though interestingly that may have a self balancing effect. Assuming that decent sized settlements will have significantly more recruitment slots per turn then you will have to choose between new units and mass retaining (no 8 free slots every turn). There are more free slots for retaining in the smaller settlements, but by there nature this activity will quickly depopulate them. And given that you will be able to pull entirely new armies out of thin air in a single turn, the differential between recruitment and mass retraining is reduced.

Sorry if this is obvious, I was just trying to get it straight, plus it is 0545hrs and I have been at work since 0400hrs!