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    Default Insane mercenary recruitment.

    I was just fighting some Romans in my Aedui campaign, having just moved in my army to siege Api after making sure i had eneough troop strength to defeat any armies in the area. I had fog of war off so I know for sure what was there.

    After ending the turn, as expected I was attacked by a nearby roman general who before the end of the turn had a total of about 6 units in his army.

    In that one end turn, he recruited FOURTEEN units of mercs, most of whom were really good quality, including samnite heavy inf., samnite spears, lucanian inf., peltasti, pezhetaroi, mist. hoplites, and classical hoplites.

    Now when this happened I just thought 'this is absolute BS' so just ended up doing auto_win defender since i dont want to have to deal with that sort of thing. The rigged auto resolve resulted in me winning and leaving him with 600 men from his original 1600.

    The thing that really suprised me though, was that after I did this, in the same turn he actually recruited another NINE units of mercs and attacked me again!

    Please tell me this is not intended!
    Last edited by Teleklos Archelaou; 12-12-2006 at 07:47. Reason: language reported

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    Default Re: Insane mercenary recruitment.

    I guess the Roman used all his 'help the AI funds' money to recruit mercs and after your auto win battle this commander moved to a different mercenary pool - allowing him to recruit another bunch of mercs.

    It's still rather odd that he could attack you twice in the same turn...
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    yeah i know the AI has a ton on money. when i looked at the faction ranking screen for money the turn after there was a huge dip in the graph.

    i just cant work out where he got the 21 units from considering threre typically is no more than 8 avaliable in any one zone.

    ive never seen anything like it before.
    Last edited by Dram; 12-10-2006 at 17:23.

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    Default Re: Insane mercenary recruitment.

    Wow, I think that is pretty awesome actually.

    Why would you not fight the battle?

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    Default Re: Insane mercenary recruitment.

    ...which is why its a BAD idea to have an enemy general roaming through ur lands. Especially in Gaul, which filled with Mercs.

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    Default Re: Insane mercenary recruitment.

    Quote Originally Posted by fallen851
    Wow, I think that is pretty awesome actually.

    Why would you not fight the battle?

    I seek adversity. I want the AI to slap me silly, so any advantage it gets only makes my victories that much more sweet.
    im not a masochist.


    Quote Originally Posted by neospartan
    ...which is why its a BAD idea to have an enemy general roaming through ur lands. Especially in Gaul, which filled with Mercs.
    it was in southern italy.

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    Post Re: Insane mercenary recruitment.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dram
    it was in southern italy.
    That's not much better.

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    Default Re: Insane mercenary recruitment.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dram
    Please tell me this is not intended!
    Ummm, no. You are certain these were mercs? Did you check to see how many you could recruit in the area before the battle? Because if he could grab about 20+ units, you should have had the same capability. Not that I want you to, just need the info to help us triangulate in.

    Please tell us the name of the province, and if possible, before the battle march your general off to neighboring provinces to check their merc loads too (just to give us more data to work with here).
    Last edited by Kull; 12-12-2006 at 08:05.
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    Default Re: Insane mercenary recruitment.

    Heh, yeah I had a Roman army attack me on my Sweboz campaign with all mercs and one Roman family member. I found it even funnier because the quote for the battle load was about Epeiros and having more mercs than loyal soldiers.
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    Default Re: Insane mercenary recruitment.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kull
    Ummm, no. You are certain these were mercs? Did you check to see how many you could recruit in the area before the battle? Because if he could grab about 20+ units, you should have had the same capability. Not that I want you to, just need the info to help us triangulate in.

    Please tell us the name of the province, and if possible, before the battle march your general off to neighboring provinces to check their merc loads too (just to give us more data to work with here).
    The area around Taras and Arpi has a lot of mercs, but I think he's exaggerating a tad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aristophanes
    The area around Taras and Arpi has a lot of mercs, but I think he's exaggerating a tad.


    previous turn-

    mercs avaliable in apulia- 10 units



    mercs avaliable in kalabria- 16 units (moved general from roma to check)



    the garrison of taras



    the army of quintus the nearby roman general



    the turn is ended here-

    the army the general attacks me with during the end turn, he has recruited 14units



    auto_win results, he has 594 men remaining



    the garrison attacks me during the same end turn, assisted by quintus



    the roman general has recruited another 9 units in the same turn




    total merc pool for apulia and kalabria is 26 units, and im sure he would of recruited them all if he had the space.

    this is actually from the same end turn of the save game i uploaded because i was getting a CTD from the romans attacking me at meidolanium during the end turn, but only if i load the battle and play through it rather than auto-resolve, so if you wanna check it to verify this info, its uploaded on your website as DRAMCTD.rar


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    Default Re: Insane mercenary recruitment.

    WTF???!!!

    I`ve never seen something like that in my campaigns, LOL...

    Boy, you must be having an excellent campaign

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    Default Re: Insane mercenary recruitment.

    YEP that sounds about right.... southern Italy is FILLED with mercs. I am playing as the Romani and I "COULD" buy myself a full stack of mercs on my to Syracuse (sp). But I didn't..... still half of the army was merc.


    Anyways.... I think the mercs thing are a little too much. Just tone it down a bit on the number of mercs....

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