Baktrian recruitment of "pure" hellenic units.

[russia almighty]

Indian pikemen . I can imagine the flavor text if they were a M:TG card.



"When you get past the pikes they pull out a buster sword on you."

[Kongeslask]

On a related note, I remember that in 0.8x, the Seleukids could recruit elephants and indian regionals if they seized Sind. According to the recruitment viewer, they can still do that, but the indo-hellenic units are NOT available to them. Is this intentional? At the same time they CAN recruit indo-iranian light and heavy cavalry.

[CirdanDharix]

Alot of unit AOR are messed up. For instance, there are a number of provinces where KH cannot recruit Iphikratous Hoplitai but can recruit Thorakitai Hoplitai, which are the heavier/richer version of the Iphikrateans. Also, KH cannot Massillian Hoplites in their factional MIC, which seems odd to me as they are a Hellenic unit. IIRC, the Indian Spearmen aren't recruitable at all for any faction, and certainly both Ethiopian Swordsmen and Agema (the two-handed axemen) are never recruitable. Red Sea Hoplties are only recruitable in Arabia, and not by the Ptolemaioi.

So I'd say it's just the result of oversight by the EB coders. Having taken a look at how their recruitment system is coded, it is quite daunting, requires alot of copy-paste-edit work to write (or modify) and so it's extremely easy to forget a province when you want to change an AOR.

[Basileus Seleukeia]

, and certainly both Ethiopian Swordsmen and Agema (the two-handed axemen) are never recruitable.

Ethiopean Agema have been completely erased from the game. I read somewhere on the board that there has been an archeological text that totally destroyed the realism of the unit.

[Tellos Athenaios]

@Kongelask:
AFAIK, yes. For one thing the Peltastai Indo-Hellenikoi simply can't be recruited by the Seleukides lest they would've looked exactly the same as the Iudaioi Taxeis (both units share a model...).

[Pharnakes]

But you can have two skins per faction per model?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

No, you just place one on the merc skin, but that only works for one faction.

[Pharnakes]

Ahh, ok, that explains it.

[Kongeslask]

@Kongelask:
AFAIK, yes. For one thing the Peltastai Indo-Hellenikoi simply can't be recruited by the Seleukides lest they would've looked exactly the same as the Iudaioi Taxeis (both units share a model...).

Does this go for the Indo-hellenic hoplites and noble hoplites too?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Does this go for the Indo-hellenic hoplites and noble hoplites too?

Nope.