Do the different regiments vary in quality?

[Destraex]

I should look, but its easier to ask.

Do the pikemen for instance have different stats from county to county?
So you have to be carefull more of the professional london regiments than ones recruited from say the militia that turn out twice a year to play from a country town?

[Sevachenko]

Most of them are the same I'm pretty sure. The Differences would be the ones you can recruit in London (Tower Hamlets or whatever) have more armor than all the others. I'm pretty sure the militias have less D/armor than the others but that's not confirmed.

[AlphaDelta]

Hopton's - Experienced
Essex's - Well trained
King's lifeguard - High morale/dedicated
Stamford's - Low morale. Unlucky buggers having that man commanding them.
Manchester's - His regiment was busted up at Edgehill, but went onto be one of the most succesful.
Rupert's - Impetious with good morale (as he was).
Brooke's - Nothing very amazing about this man or regiment.
Northampton's - Again nothing very amazing about them
Fairfax's - Well trained
Robarte's - Average
Rawdon's - Average
Newcastle's - Excellent morale (based on their stand at marston moor).
Trayned bands - Well armoured (wearing buff coats)
New model army - Good morale, well trained

[leonn]

also dont forget trayned bands usually wouldnt fight outside the county they were raised in,london being one of the exeptions.

[AlphaDelta]

also dont forget trayned bands usually wouldnt fight outside the county they were raised in,london being one of the exeptions.

This would be very difficult to simulate. It would also be hugely frustrating for the player.

The regiment system I implemented seems to be a good compromise.

Cheers

[Tharros]

Yes I hope to add this kind of information to the website in future.

[leonn]

yes, i agree.how about to add some more variety put in more regiments that had the same coat colour?all it would need is a changing of the names.if you wanted to be ultra authentic about it you could change the coat linings,which were really the only difference,and the flags.this would then prevent you ending up with an entire army of essex"s or robards like i did!

[AlphaDelta]

It would be possible to do that. But you'd have a nightmare on your hands. If I remember rightly, Essex had about 20 different regiments in his army at Edgehill. If i was to simulate this then you'd have to retrain 20 different units straight after the battle. You'd have to send them back to their home counties. I've already read that people are confused by the current area of recruitment/regiment system, it would be exponentially worse if regiments wearing the same colour coats were duplicated and renamed.

Cheers

[leonn]

It would be possible to do that. But you'd have a nightmare on your hands. If I remember rightly, Essex had about 20 different regiments in his army at Edgehill. If i was to simulate this then you'd have to retrain 20 different units straight after the battle. You'd have to send them back to their home counties. I've already read that people are confused by the current area of recruitment/regiment system, it would be exponentially worse if regiments wearing the same colour coats were duplicated and renamed.

Cheers

mm,i see what you mean.the real regts replenished recruits as they went about the country,training them on the march.shame!i just fancyied a little more variety regts wise.

[JaM]

best way how to differentiate those regiments would be applying Point Blank RR/RC system - so there will be difference in attack/defence/morale and accuracy bettween elite,regular or militia regiments - Right now militia units have same accuracy as elite ones, similar melee attack values etc...only difference is in few points of morale which is not enough - Properly trained musketeers would be more effective than rapidly trained militia - one experienced soldier with sword would do more casaulties than rookie militia soldier equipped with same weapon... etc...

Whole problem why King lost Civil war was that he lost most of his experienced soldeirs in some clashes with lower importance and he was not able to replace them, where parliament was able to bring more and more decently trained Model Army regiments so at the end they had qualitative advantage over Royalists.

You could also go with longer recruit times for elite regiments, and instant training for Militias and lower quality units.

[Legionary Titus Pullo]

Jam had a good idea with the longer recruitment for elite regiments, it would then encourage you to send them back home to retrain and repair rather than have to start them from scratch again. or to support them with cheaper faster militia units.

[AlphaDelta]

I'm hoping to see a more advanced recruitment system implemented that links the draft system, the population and the AOR together. Such a system as this one:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=165287

Cheers

[Legionary Titus Pullo]

looks interesting