Q about mercenaries

**windsupernova** · May 16, 2012, 07:09 PM

Hi, I was just playing a Julii campaign(Vainilla, with Vainilla essentials mod)

Well, one thing I wanted to do was compliment my armies with mercenaries from all around the world to add some flavour. Dissapointingly I have found out mercs kinda take too long to respawn and I can´t really have a good contingent of mercs for my armies.

So I was planning on modifying the descr_mercenaries.txt and wanted to be sure of some things before I changed stuff:

1.- Does the AI hires mercenaries? I don´t really plan to abuse them but I don´t really want to face endless merc stacks from the Ai either....

2.- Which would be a good balanced number of turns for each merc to replenish? As it is the ones that replenish kinda fast replenish 1 each 8 turns. I was planning on making the common mercs respawn one each 4 turns while the elite mercs 1 each 8 turns. That way I feel I will be able to include more mercs while still not being able to make armies out of them.

3.- As for the modding itself. From the .txt file I can see this:

pool Libya
regions Tripolitania Libya
unit merc libyan infantry, exp 2 cost 350 replenish 0.125 - 0.25 max 4 initial 1
unit merc numidian cavalry, exp 0 cost 750 replenish 0.06 - 0.125 max 2 initial 1

I guess the .125-.25 number is the replenishment rate what I don´t get is the 2nd number. Does the game randomly decides if it wants to add up one of those numbers? I mean If I get lucky can I get libyan infantry in 4 turns?

I guess thats it.

Thanks in advance

**Alexanderos** · May 17, 2012, 07:18 AM

I don't know much modding , but I believe that on hard and very hard campaign the AI actually recruits mercenaries.

**anycolourfloyd** · May 17, 2012, 07:59 AM

in XGM at least, mercenaries are crack cocaine to the AI.

what you might wanna do instead is have mercenaries recruitable from the settlements in those areas.

**windsupernova** · May 17, 2012, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by anycolourfloyd

in XGM at least, mercenaries are crack cocaine to the AI.

what you might wanna do instead is have mercenaries recruitable from the settlements in those areas.

Hmmm, figures. Ugh I didn´t really want to mod to that extent..... Does a mod like this exists? One that adds AOR units(as in XGM) but doesn´t change the game too much?