General ideas

**Cyrus** · 02-12-2009, 19:18

But how did CA get the idea that during a seige you can't recruit? I mean in every single book on anchent and medieval warfare it says about levying troops from the populace.....

**Lucio Domicio Aureliano** · 02-12-2009, 19:28

Originally Posted by Cyrus

But how did CA get the idea that during a seige you can't recruit? I mean in every single book on anchent and medieval warfare it says about levying troops from the populace.....

Nobody knows

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 02-12-2009, 21:09

Well, it would be pretty annoying to be trying to starve out a town in vanilla, waiting 12 turns, and they create an entire Praetorian Legion within the city. It's reasons are tied to gameplay.

**Mediolanicus** · 02-12-2009, 21:32

And the fact that it is easier to not be able to recruit anything than only to be able to recruit levies. That would take up much coding and memory and extra difficulty for the AI to cope with.

So much extra work for something that can be solved simply by making recruitment unavailable during seiges.

Another option would be to make all recruitment possible, but then you'd get what MAA says.

**Lucio Domicio Aureliano** · 02-12-2009, 21:39

Oh sorry, you guys do know why did so.

**Cute Wolf** · 02-13-2009, 06:44

city garrison script is simply annoying.... I must use catapults against antioch, rome, carthago, or syrakusai in XGM... to kill them in the very first turn!