Recruitable Governors/Generals

**Balikedes** · April 20, 2009, 12:22 PM

All,
Was playing The Fourth Age: Total War recently and noticed they have recruit-able general units and family members that are both mounted and foot unit types.

i.e. you can have a foot general and cavalry general in the same army, is kind of fun for the RP aspect of it.

anyways, for those that are interested, here is a link to the tutorial.

Thanks to Aradan and Master of None for the tutorial.

**Scutarii** · April 20, 2009, 08:25 PM

Roma Surrectum does this as well, I think (foot governor-generals, and mounted regular generals). Good link.

**GoldShield Guard** · April 21, 2009, 12:43 PM

Is it possible and easy to have this (recruitable general) in XGM? I know nothing about moding.

**Scutarii** · April 21, 2009, 09:00 PM

XGM has a recruitable general already, from the 5th level government building. The foot-general idea is implementable with Bal's link.

**silentsam74** · April 21, 2009, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by Scutarii

XGM has a recruitable general already, from the 5th level government building. The foot-general idea is implementable with Bal's link.

Wouldn't be a bad thing to have then. I think the AAR guys would definitely like it, as they could have a cavalry commander, infantry commander, and main general. Plenty of other scenarios with that too.

**Spartan198** · April 21, 2009, 11:37 PM

Yeah, I wouldn't mind having infantry bodyguards, especially for Spartan FMs.

**Jacob Debroedere** · April 22, 2009, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by Spartan198

Yeah, I wouldn't mind having infantry bodyguards, especially for Spartan FMs.

The Carthaginians once hired a Spartan mercenary general. Maybe you should be able to recruit certain generals as mercenaries in certain regions, like a general with a hoplite bodyguard in Greece, a horse archer general in steppe lands and so on? Just make sure they come for a hefty price and a slow replenish rate to avoid spamming.

**Spartan198** · April 22, 2009, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by Jacob Debroedere

The Carthaginians once hired a Spartan mercenary general. Maybe you should be able to recruit certain generals as mercenaries in certain regions, like a general with a hoplite bodyguard in Greece, a horse archer general in steppe lands and so on? Just make sure they come for a hefty price and a slow replenish rate to avoid spamming.

Yeah, come to think of it, EB has mercenary generals.