Barracks Thread (The North)

[Pontifex Maximus]

SOLDIER HIRE and RECRUITMENT

Post the soldiers you hired / recruited here! Include numbers and calculations for total cost and total upkeep p.a.
For more information about soldiers, unit classes and special things like mercenary advantages, check the Rules Thread.

These men are professional soldiers who can be used to bolster your levy or offer an advantage in battle. These men can be invaluable, if you have the coin to pay for them. Make sure you update your home thread with the size of your troops and your income thread for the expenses. All troops/ships listed below take THREE DAYS to recruit.

Important Note for Sellswords: Only sellswords signed up AT GAME START get their first units without any waiting period. All units puchased by Sellswords after the game starts, even by newly signed up Sellswords, take 3 days to train. This does mean that Sellswords signed up after the game has started will spend their first three days without a sellsword company.

Unit Point Values

1 point: Light Infantry, Archers, Crossbowmen, Light Cavalry 1.5 point: Polearms 2 point: Heavy Infantry 3 point: Heavy Cavalry, Elite Infantry 3.5 point: Elite Cavalry

Standing Forces Caps

All Lords may have 5,000 Points of Professional troops, with a Tier IV building is available that can increase it to 7,000. They may also have 5,000 points of Professional Warships alongside this. All below the Lord or Merchant Prince rank (except Sellsword characters) may have 2,500 points worth of Professional Soldiers and 2,500 points worth of Professional Warships as well. Standing Forces do not have percentage caps on how many more men you can have. you can choose to have an all elite cavalry and elite infantry army (as long as you can afford it) but do realize that they will take up more points while giving you an overall lesser number of men. Please note that the caps for Land-based soldiers and Sea-based warships are separate: you may have both 5,000 points of soldiers and 5,000 points of ships. You may not exceed 5,000 points either on land or sea, however, by using one points cap for the other. For example, you cannot have 8,000 points of soldiers by hiring only 2,000 points of ships. 5,000 is the absolute maximum (or 7,000 if the correct buildings are purchased) in either individual category.

Standard Soldiers

All units are 300 men in size unless stated otherwise. Points values will vary depending on which type of soldier is in the unit, and the points values can be viewed in the first content box. Per unit points values are listed below for convenience: please refer to the "Standing Forces Caps" content box to see what your limit on points is. Mercenary Light Infantry Hire Cost: 3900 Dragons Upkeep Cost: 900 Dragons Points: 300 Mercenary Heavy Infantry Hire Cost: 7800 Dragons Upkeep Cost: 1800 Dragons Points: 600 Mercenary Polearm Infantry Hire Cost: 5850 Dragons Upkeep Cost: 1350 Dragons Points: 450 Mercenary Archers Hire Cost: 3900 Dragons Upkeep Cost: 900 Dragons Points: 300 Mercenary Crossbowmen Hire Cost: 3900 Dragons Upkeep Cost: 900 Dragons Points: 300 Mercenary Light Cavalry Hire Cost: 4800 Dragons Upkeep Cost: 1500 Dragons Points: 300

Specialist Troops

Raider Infantry (light infantry) Hire Cost: 4800 Dragons Upkeep Cost: 1500 Dragons Points: 300 Skill: More bandit than soldier, these men of the night are adept at raiding towns and villages as they sleep. A force of raiders will gain -2 on their detection rolls and +3% loot gained. These bonuses only apply if the entire attacking force is Raider units. Raider Archers (archers) Hire Cost: 4800 Dragons Upkeep Cost: 1500 Dragons Points: 300 Skill: More bandit than soldier, these men of the night are adept at raiding towns and villages as they sleep. A force of raiders will gain -2 on their detection rolls and +3% loot gained. These bonuses only apply if the entire attacking force is Raider units. Raider Cavalry (light cavalry, cannot be used to scout or screen) Hire Cost: 4800 Dragons Upkeep Cost: 1500 Dragons Points: 300 Skill: More bandit than soldier, these men of the night are adept at raiding towns and villages as they sleep. A force of raiders will gain -2 on their detection rolls and +3% loot gained. These bonuses only apply if the entire attacking force is Raider units. Outriders (light cavalry) Hire Cost: 6300 Dragons Upkeep Cost: 1800 Dragons Points: 300 Skill: The fastest riders available: young, fit horses and no armour or baggage. These horsemen get +2 scout rolls. This bonus only applies to the destination the Outriders are specifically scouting. Night Watchmen (light infantry) Cost: 4800 Dragons Upkeep: 1500 Dragons Points: 300 Skill: Skilled watchmen, these troops interdict raiders. If they are in a province that is raided and a peasant militia forms to oppose the raiders, these troops will also oppose the raiders. In addition, for every 300 watchmen (1 unit), 2.5% of the province levy can be mobilised to aid the defence. Longbowmen: Hire Cost: 4800 Dragons Upkeep Cost: 1500 Dragons Points: 450

AOR Units

These troops may only be hired by native Lords, but may be then sent into service with others. For example, only a Reachman Lord may hire Reach AOR units. The North Northern Swordsmen (elite infantry) Cost: 11,700 Dragons Upkeep: 2500 Dragons Points: 900 Skill: These troops gain +3 to battle rolls if fighting in the North. This will be divided by their ratio in the fighting forces and decimal points rounded as normal. Therefore, this unit type must compose at least 1/6th of the clashing infantry to gain a +1, 1/2 of the clashing forces to gain +2, and 5/6ths of the clashing forces to gain a full +3. Northern Heavy Cavalry (elite cavalry) Hire Cost: 13650 Dragons Upkeep Cost: 3150 Dragons Points: 1,050 Skill: These troops gain +3 to battle rolls if fighting in the North. This will be divided by their ratio in the fighting forces and decimal points rounded as normal. Therefore, this unit type must compose at least 1/6th of the clashing infantry to gain a +1, 1/2 of the clashing forces to gain +2, and 5/6ths of the clashing forces to gain a full +3. Northern Herders (light infantry) Hire Cost: 4800 Dragons Upkeep Cost: 1500 Dragons Points: 300 Skill: Skilled at moving across the harsh terrain of the North, these men are excellent at operating a baggage train. If these men constitute at least 5% of the army they are attached to, the time taken to move across normal tiles drops from 2.4 hours to 2 hours. They do not have any impact on moving across other tile types. * * * The Iron Islands: Ironborn Hearth Warriors (elite infantry) Cost: 11,700 Dragons Upkeep: 2700 Dragons Points: 900 Skill: These troops gain +3 to battle rolls if fighting in the Iron Isles. This will be divided by their ratio in the fighting forces and decimal points rounded as normal. Therefore, this unit type must compose at least 1/6th of the clashing infantry to gain a +1, 1/2 of the clashing forces to gain +2, and 5/6ths of the clashing forces to gain a full +3. Ironborn Raiders (all raider types) Hire Cost: See Raider units Upkeep Cost: See Raider units Skill: Skilled Ironborn reavers, these men of the night are adept at raiding towns and villages as they sleep. A force of raiders will gain -4 on their detection rolls and +3% loot gained. These bonuses only apply if the entire attacking force is Raider units.

Essosi Mercenaries

Myrish Crossbowmen Hire Cost: 6000 Dragons Upkeep Cost: 1800 Dragons Number of Men Points: 600 Prerequisite: Requires a trade route with Myr Skill: They grant an additional +1 to dragon death rolls due to their experience fighting dragons according to the lore. Max limit: 5 per House Elephants Hire Cost: 100,000 Dragons Upkeep Cost: 25,000 Dragons Number of Men: 50 Elephants with 300 handlers. Points: 1,500 Skill: -2 to overall enemy rolls on that flank, becomes -5 if it is facing a cavalry assault Prerequisite: Requires a trade route with Volantis. Max Limit: 2 per House

Naval Units

Dromonds and Heavy Galleys are recruited in squadrons of 10 ships. AOR Ships and Grand Warships are recruited in squadrons of 5 ships. All ships except Grand Warships can sail up rivers and can carry 100 soldiers. Grand Warships can carry 200 soldiers. Standard Ships: Dromond: 30 points Heavy Galley: 50 points AOR Ship: 80 points Grand Warship: 100 points AOR Ships: Lannister Carrack Oldtown War Galley Dornish Dromond Stormbreaker Ships Narrow Sea Galleon Riverrun Riverboat Sisterton Pirate Ships White Harbour Warship Ironborn Longship -- Ironborn Warships have a 25% movement bonus. -- Ironborn Warships can be dragged over land, but armies dragging them move at half their normal movement speed. Standard Ships: Dromonds Points Cost: 300 naval points per squadron (10 ships) Recruitment Cost: 3900 per squadron Upkeep: 900 per squadron Abilities: Can sail up rivers Heavy Galleys Points Cost: 500 naval points per squadron (10 ships) Recruitment Cost: 6500 per squadron Upkeep: 1500 per squadron AOR Ships Points Cost: 400 naval points per squadron (5 ships) Recruitment Cost: 5200 per squadron Upkeep: 1200 per squadron Grand Warships Points Cost: 500 naval points per squadron (5 ships) Recruitment Cost: 8000 per squadron Upkeep: 2500 per squadron Abilities: Cannot sail in rivers, but grants +3 naval battles if the flank is at least 10% (in points) of these vessels.

- All units are 300 men in size unless stated otherwise. Recruitment time is 3 RL days unless stated otherwise.

- RP naming is allowed, so long as the unit type is provided in brackets. For example, "Storm's End Guardians (merc heavy inf)" or "Eyrie Crossbowmen (merc crossbowmen)".

- Hired troops will train at, and become available at, your home. For Lords, this is their seat of power. For other characters, this is where ever their guild houses (or equivalent) are located. This means if your home is under siege you cannot hire troops: if you're in the middle of training them when the siege occurs the process is paused and will resume when the siege ends. If your home is conquered your hired troops will not be available until you liberate your home.

[Xion]

Harlon Magnar hires the following soldiers :
900 Archers
900 Skagosi Warriors (Mercenary Heavy Infantry)
600 Skagosi Hirdmen (Northern Swordsmen)


Total : 58,500
Upkeep : 13,100
Completed : 8/25

[The Mad Skylord]

11 Raider units - 54'200 Dragons - 3300 Points
2 Outriders - 12'600 Dragons - 600 Points

[Iron Aquilifer]

Cairn
- 938 Raider Cavalry

[Blastoise Groudon]

The House of Norrey wishes to recruit and train the following:
1 Night Watchman unit
1 Raider Cavalry unit

[Barry Goldwater]

House Glover hires the following:

1x Longbowmen (300 men, -4800 gold)

[Poach]

Greystark.

2 light cavalry, 2 archers, 4 heavy infantry.

41310 hire, 10800 upkeep, 2400 men, 3600 points.

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