Question about future versions of BC.

[scannerfish]

I've heard that you guys are going to implement an auxiliary system of some sorts. I have a couple of questions.

1. Will anyone be able to recruit the units, or will some be limited to only a certain faction or factions?
2. Will all of the units be about the same in strength, or will some be the type that you'd be will to conquer half of the map to get to?
3.Also, will the aux units follow a certain pattern for a region, like one meh, one ok and one good, or will it truly be mixed up (Areas that historically provided good soldiers to a conqueror will be good, while meh areas you'll get stuck with some peasant who sleeps in poop who has a shank and a couple of javelins?)

[Ahiga]

I've heard that you guys are going to implement an auxiliary system of some sorts. I have a couple of questions.

1. Will anyone be able to recruit the units, or will some be limited to only a certain faction or factions?
2. Will all of the units be about the same in strength, or will some be the type that you'd be will to conquer half of the map to get to?
3.Also, will the aux units follow a certain pattern for a region, like one meh, one ok and one good, or will it truly be mixed up (Areas that historically provided good soldiers to a conqueror will be good, while meh areas you'll get stuck with some peasant who sleeps in poop who has a shank and a couple of javelins?)

1) Most regions will allow for shared recruitment, as in everyone gets it. Some areas are dualistic, where Muslims/Hindus get 1 roster and Christians/Pagans get another. Probably not in 1.5, but in later releases certain areas might present special opportunities for certain factions (Like Abbasids get more troop types in Khorasan, and such)

2) In general auxiliary units are either A) Low level troops used by a native faction, without any tweaks (Like ere archers or khorasani light spearmen) or B) Mid to mid-high level units which suffer from penalties in comparison to their native counterparts.

3) Sort of. Certain regions do offer better troops than you'd find elsewhere, but except for maybe Daylam (Daylami Tribesmen), or the Deccan (Elephants), there's no area that has unbelievably powerful troops.

But that does kind of exist. You have a region like Khorasan, with decent armored archers and armoed ha then a region like Christian Iraq, which just has levy spearmen & archers and crossbowmen.