How can I get a faction recruiting in majority spearmen?

**romy** · November 07, 2008, 01:48 PM

Hey dudes!

I prefer to see an army with a majority of spearmen than a majority of knights , horsemen and archers...
I've changed the EDB to get the spearmen easier and faster than other units , but it seems that it doesn't really work.

Any help will be nice!

Thanks in advance

**sirfiggin** · November 07, 2008, 01:50 PM

make knights more expensive with a very small recruitment pool that won't replenish fast.

**Eothese** · November 07, 2008, 02:46 PM

If your using Kingdoms there is a recruit priority offset in each EDU entry.

**romy** · November 07, 2008, 05:21 PM

sirfiggin , it's what I did..

eothese , can you explain it please?

Thanks

**Eothese** · November 07, 2008, 05:30 PM

Code:

type             Spear Militia
dictionary       Spear_Militia      ; Spear Militia
category         infantry
class            spearmen
voice_type       Light
banner faction   main_spear
banner holy      crusade
soldier          Spear_Militia, 60, 0, 1.5
officer          merchant_cavalry_militia_ug2
attributes       sea_faring, hide_forest, can_withdraw, free_upkeep_unit
formation        1.2, 1.2, 2.4, 2.4, 5, square, schiltrom
stat_health      1, 0
stat_pri         7, 3, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, spear, 25, 0.6
;stat_pri_ex      0, 0, 0
stat_pri_attr    spear, spear_bonus_8
stat_sec         0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, melee_simple, blunt, none, 25, 1
;stat_sec_ex      0, 0, 0
stat_sec_attr    no
stat_pri_armour  0, 3, 8, flesh
;stat_armour_ex   0, 2, 3, 5, 3, 8, 6, flesh
stat_sec_armour  0, 0, flesh
stat_heat        4
stat_ground      1, -2, 3, 4
stat_mental      5, normal, trained
stat_charge_dist 20
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 320, 125, 55, 135, 320, 4, 90
armour_ug_levels 0, 1, 2, 3
armour_ug_models Spear_Militia, Spear_Militia_ug1, Spear_Militia_ug2, Spear_Militia_ug3
ownership        england, scotland, france, hre, denmark, spain, portugal, slave, normans, norway
;unit_info        7, 0, 11
recruit_priority_offset    -20

I've never really experimented with it but I think a low number like -20 means they are a low recruitment priority. Dismounted Feudal Knights are set at 22.5 there are probably higher. There will probably be more info about it somewhere if you want to do a search...
It comes down to if your using the Kingdoms.exe or not.

**alhoon** · November 08, 2008, 01:41 AM

Correct.
Also the difference between 22.5 and -20 is very large. for your purpose I would suggest making sure the spearmen have recruitment priority about 15, so the AI will pick them up.