No peasants in EB?

[Good Ship Chuckle]

This is a minor question, but one I still want to ask.
Is there a peasant equivalent in EB. I see under the govenor buildings that it says "enables training of freed slaves". Are these the peasant equivalent? If that's the case, I can't seem to recruit them. They don't appear under the recruitment tab. I installed the game today and like it, but I need to have peasants for a cost effective garrison. Is my problem an error, or do peasants not exist in EB?
Thanx!

[Admetos]

No peasants. The unit you see is only there when a city rebels to prevent a CTD.

[anubis88]

Peasants don't exist in EB. You do have a lot of cheap units for garrison.
The freed slaves appear only when a settlement revolts

[Good Ship Chuckle]

Thank you for the quick response time!
How odd?? I've gotten so used to peasants to keep the peace, at a good price in RTW. Then how do you keep the peace with out spending tons on units that never see action???(I would acually like an answer/your opinion to this question, if ya don't mind.)

[overweightninja]

Thank you for the quick response time!
How odd?? I've gotten so used to peasants to keep the peace, at a good price in RTW. Then how do you keep the peace with out spending tons on units that never see action???(I would acually like an answer/your opinion to this question, if ya don't mind.)

As far as simply keeping order goes, the best unit for garrison will be the one thats cheapest. Remember some units have more men than others and go on an upkeep cost per man basis, you can't really go wrong.
Obviously you may want to "splash out" a little on your border provinces though.
Hope that helps (in time this time! )
Cheers

EDIT
Oh and remember you don't have to garrison your cities at all if they have a good enough governor or are happy enough alone if you feel they're safe.

[Hellenic_Hoplite]

slingers and toxotai are always cost effective garrison troops along with skirmishers like rorii/velites/akontistai

[Hax]

This is a minor question, but one I still want to ask.
Is there a peasant equivalent in EB. I see under the govenor buildings that it says "enables training of freed slaves". Are these the peasant equivalent? If that's the case, I can't seem to recruit them. They don't appear under the recruitment tab. I installed the game today and like it, but I need to have peasants for a cost effective garrison. Is my problem an error, or do peasants not exist in EB?

Historically, peasants weren't used for mass warfare.

Besides, the Freed Slaves, Apeleutheroi, are there because of a bug, I believe. IIRC, the team had to solve this weird CTD that has to do with cities revolting, and the Apeleutheroi make sure this CTD will not happen.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Iovamann
Akontistai

My favourite peasants in the Lusotannan campaign.
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