how to recruit special units

I'm specifically trying to figure out where or how to be able to recruit swiss foot and polish legion in my french campaign.

Use a mod

...?? what? They are in the game. i can use them during pick up games. why should i have to use a mod for something already there?

You can only recruit them in certain regions, in your case Switzerland and Poland.

Hence the mod. The Swiss troops should be recruitable from the start by France, even if no occupying Switzerland.

With the default game, you can't.

Oh. Well thats an idiotic oversight.

Originally Posted by Lord marcus

Oh. Well thats an idiotic oversight.

There are a number of them in the vanilla game that mods correct.

Another that comes to mind is French National Guard being set to be recruitable only in region_id france... except there is no region_id called france and therefore they are unrecruitable altogether.

And Brunswickers, and KGL, and...