Newbie help -Georgia - extremely limited recuitment - I am suffereing AOR problems?

[Karklos]

Hi

I am new to Broken Crescent, i just installed today!

I have played for a few hours as georgia, and I am a little suspicious that my recruitment options are not what they should be.

Firstly the basics:

I freshly installed Medieval II and Kingdoms today.

Installing Kingdoms has brought me up to patch 1.03 in MII.

I have installed BC 2.0 and patch 2.02

These are the issues:

I seem to have extremely limited recruitment options,

e.g I have conquered Yerevan.

Yerevan has a wooden castle, and mustering hall

I am able to recruit "Northern Axemen Militia"

That perhaps seemed reasonable to me, it only has low level buildings.

however looking through the building browser, I can see that building a stables, garrison quarters or bowyer will not increase my unit options at all! surely this is not correct?

i used process cq and the money cheat, to investigate a bit further - it seems I only get new troop options if i build the next building up from stables, garrsion and bowyer.

e.g to get a levy archer I have to build a practice range

however even if i maxed out the stables I still wont be able to recruit any cavalry.

Essentially this is a totally useless castle where I will have to spend loads, to be able to get even the most basic units.

Is this working as intended?


THe second (related) point is recruitment in my cities.

In most of my cities I cannot recruit any soldiers e.g Telari, Ganja, Sakhumi, Kutaili etc - nothing

looking through the building browser it seems I need to build a Lvl 3 barracks (town watch type building)
to be able to recruit any soldiers in these cities.

Is this working as intended?


I have one city - Dvin where I am able to recruit soldiers - the Northern Axemen, If I build a lv 3 in Dvin I am able to recruit 3 different troop types.

What is the reason for the discrepancy?

Finally - It seems I have to build an abbey to get a priest. Is that working as intended?

[Ma'ahes]

From my experience, yes Yerevan is absolutely worthless as a castle. Just turn it into a city and make more money off of it. Also, while my Georgia campaign always get a CTD, I cannot confirm your other AOR concerns...however, I would assume that, given my same recruiting from Yerevan, they are simply outside the AOR and have not been assigned units to recruit. There are many of these types of settlements that offer no units, such as in Russia (I believe Kiev has no units, period).

[Bohun]

I had a similar experience with Georgians AOR. Despite a barracks in core regions cities I can`t recriut even weakest units

[wudang_clown]

It's not an AOR problem, Bohun, it's intended to be that way.

[herozero]

I just posted something along similar lines here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=294562 Should have put it here but wasn't really sure it was a tech issue at the time. Like Karklos I'm new to the mod (which I love, btw) and began finding limited recruitment in Georgia. All of my details are the same as his but I'm not using Kingdoms. I am patched to 1.03 but do not have Kingdoms. Also, I've found that I can't even recruit cavalry past Turcoman Tribesman even in Tbilisi. I've maxed out using the cheats to test, as he mentioned. However if I go into the building browser for Castles on a brand new campaign, all it shows King's Stables providing are Turcoman Tribesman. There's also a lot infantry not listed in the Building Browser. Started a campaign as ERE and the building browser shows the same thing on Cavalry and some missing infantry. As one last test I started one up as the Rajputs and the building browser showed no buildings providing any new units and I was unable to recruit at all.

-hz