Templar militias

[jgte]

Is it me or do the Templars only have crossbow and merchant cavalry militias, the only units that can have free upkeep in towns/cities?

In the online unit database, most units have the free_upkeep_unit flag but only the above two have actually free upkeep. I also see that motte/castle/fortresses/citadels have free_upkeep bonus but I never manage to get units in there for free.

What am I missing?

[Kaidonni]

Any City/Castle you wish to garrison the unit in has to be able to recruit that unit first before it allows free upkeep for it.

[PerXX]

What submods are you using? In the latest RR, all professionel units don't have free upkeep. Only militias in towns, and Feudal/Religious units in castles. And seeing as most of the templar units are professionel / mercenaries, that would explain your issue.

[jgte]

Kaidonni: I get that.

PerXX: I have the RR that is bundled with SS 6.1.

So your point is that in towns I'm stuck with crossbow and merchant cavalry at most, since towns only give you templar spearmen, an early professional, if I recall properly (anyway, it's certainly not a militia).

In castles, as you suggest, I would expect that religious units (such as templar squires) would have free upkeep. Well, they don't.

As I said, the only free upkeep units i have seen in any situation (towns or castles) are x-bow mil and merch cav mil and only in towns/cities.

Can someone please point me towards which files to tweak so that I can set it up like it was originally intended? Maybe add templar squires to towns, so that towns get a decent garrison. Much appreciated.

[PerXX]

Making a unit a free upkeep unit is luckily fairly easy.

find your export_descr_unit.txt, and search for your unit of choice.

For instance, the Templar Squires:

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type Templar Squires
dictionary Templar_Squires ; Templar Squires, o
category infantry ;Normal mace
class heavy
voice_type Heavy
accent French
banner faction main_infantry
banner holy crusade
soldier Dismounted_Huscarls, 48, 0, 1.1
officer Dismounted_Knights_Templar_ug1
officer northern_captain_early_flag
officer northern_captain_early_flag
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, hardy, can_withdraw
formation 1.2, 0, 2.4, 2.4, 4, square
stat_health 1, 0
stat_pri 4, 3, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, blunt, mace, 45, 1
stat_pri_attr ap
stat_sec 0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, melee_simple, blunt, none, 0, 1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 4, 6, 5, metal ;mail: armor -1 defense +1 stat_heat -1
stat_sec_armour 0, 0, flesh
stat_heat 4
stat_ground 0, -2, 2, -1
stat_mental 14, normal, trained
stat_charge_dist 6
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 1, 505, 120, 75, 55, 505, 4, 140
armour_ug_levels 6, 10, 14, 22
armour_ug_models templar_squires, templar_squires_ug1, templar_squires_ug1, templar_squires_ug1
ownership jerusalem
recruit_priority_offset 0

Under the attributes line, simply add "free_upkeep_unit". Remember to seperate each attribute by a comma. Again, with the Templar Squires, edit it to look like this:

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type Templar Squires
dictionary Templar_Squires ; Templar Squires, o
category infantry ;Normal mace
class heavy
voice_type Heavy
accent French
banner faction main_infantry
banner holy crusade
soldier Dismounted_Huscarls, 48, 0, 1.1
officer Dismounted_Knights_Templar_ug1
officer northern_captain_early_flag
officer northern_captain_early_flag
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, hardy, can_withdraw, free_upkeep_unit
formation 1.2, 0, 2.4, 2.4, 4, square
stat_health 1, 0
stat_pri 4, 3, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, blunt, mace, 45, 1
stat_pri_attr ap
stat_sec 0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, melee_simple, blunt, none, 0, 1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 4, 6, 5, metal ;mail: armor -1 defense +1 stat_heat -1
stat_sec_armour 0, 0, flesh
stat_heat 4
stat_ground 0, -2, 2, -1
stat_mental 14, normal, trained
stat_charge_dist 6
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 1, 505, 120, 75, 55, 505, 4, 140
armour_ug_levels 6, 10, 14, 22
armour_ug_models templar_squires, templar_squires_ug1, templar_squires_ug1, templar_squires_ug1
ownership jerusalem
recruit_priority_offset 0

[SoulBlade]

SS/data/export_descr_unit.txt
Ctrl+F to find the unit
and to the line with "attributes" add this:
, free_upkeep_unit

Example:

 attributes       sea_faring, hide_forest, can_withdraw, free_upkeep_unit

[SoulBlade]

Yo.

[jgte]

Thank you.

[jgte]

So I can conclude that the online unit database was generated from a set of files which have the free_upkeep_unit set to all units, not only to those originally intended by the mod creators.