Merc Availability

**Redmeth** · 05-18-2007, 21:13

Mercenary availability could use some restraining as they are far too many especially in N Macedonia and around the Hellespont you can recruit quite a few stacks in those provinces with enough money.
The mercenary phalangites are also way too common in my opinion.
And those predominantly or only led by a general armies composed of gauls that the Romans use because the AI is unable to keep bringing troops from the homeland are very annoying.
Could you lower the refresh rate of mercenaries, what is the team's POV on this?
Are you satisfied with the way things are, from a historical POV or/and a gameplay POV?

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 05-18-2007, 21:18

Merc availability will probably be reduced. I just saw something about it recently. It seems that new mercs keep being added and that throws off the balance of numbers...

**Redmeth** · 05-18-2007, 21:23

Diversity is great but they should spawn less often I love my Galatians but they pop up in great numbers especially the Kluddollon (sp?). And the Thracians are also very fertile people it seems and eager to earn money by making war.
In my Sauromatae campaign I found the Steppe areas and the Armenian area pretty okay in terms of mercs some provinces lacked mercs or at least mercs I could recruit but overall it was balanced I was glad to get some archers from the Parthia provinces or a few phalangites near Baktra. But the area around the Hellespont is really too populated.

**pansoiatr** · 05-18-2007, 22:25

I find that historically mercenaries availability was never a problem in ancient times.Finding the money to finance them was the major problem.So i dont really think that there is an issue about being able to hire too many mercs if you have the money

**pezhetairoi** · 05-19-2007, 00:56

That's the problem. Too often the AI has the money, and you don't. I have had it up to here with the AS suddenly summoning magic fullstacks of merc troops to hurl at me just as my Baktrian armies have cleared the region of troops and are just about thinking they have the city practically in their hands as it is. I do not think anyone can hire the equivalent of 70000 mercenaries at one go within a season, however much money they may have.