Free Upkeep in Cities/Castles

**Chimera** · January 22, 2011, 09:37 AM

Which is weird because when I disband a spear militia unit in one of my cities, the projected total profits go up.

So how does this work? Does it simply mean that only those units can get one of the free upkeep slots?

**newt** · January 22, 2011, 09:56 AM

What's the question?

**Chimera** · January 22, 2011, 10:04 AM

I have full stacks of militia in all of my cities since i thought they wouldn't cost me anything in upkeep (it says so on their unit card).
However, when I disband one of those units i see a decrease in army upkeep. So what exactly does the 'free upkeep in cities' trait mean?

**newt** · January 22, 2011, 10:06 AM

You only get a certain amount free. It's the darker colored cards, the units on the bottom right

**Roman Ocean** · January 22, 2011, 10:06 AM

only a certain mount of units get it depending on how big the city/castle they are in is

**Chimera** · January 22, 2011, 10:17 AM

So these upkeep slots only count for those units that have the trait 'free upkeep in cities/castles'.

Now if you'll excuse, I'm going to fire half of my army.

Thx

**newt** · January 22, 2011, 10:19 AM

Yup. Also right click the picture of your wall and it tells you how many you can have.
If you ever get a notification that your leader is "protector of the people" or something then you can have more free units until he dies.

**RabidSheepLegion** · January 22, 2011, 03:00 PM

well you can edit the building descr files to make it say 20 free upkeep allowed in cities and castles and all units with free upkeep trait in unit descr file, however, that is abusing the system pretty bad, sure you'll make ALOT of money, but so will the AI :O

**guyverlance** · January 22, 2011, 08:39 PM

better not play at all if u abuse the system, eh?

**RabidSheepLegion** · January 22, 2011, 09:09 PM

I've tried it before, AI starts spamming stacks quickly, and it gets extremely hard awfully fast

**guyverlance** · January 22, 2011, 09:29 PM

and if it didnt spam units then the player could easily steamroll, right? then he would say "ss is so boring il try BC instead bcoz of the garrison script, etc"