legions or cohorts ?

[Dicer]

My question is CA is talking about entire legions being recruited but legions were made up of 4-5 cohorts and in each cohort was anywhere from 200-500 men witch would makes legions at approximately 2000 strong so will will be recruiting legions or cohorts

[Petroniu]

You should have checked your numbers before posting here man. Let the avalanche of historical accuracy dudes come. Let me give you a head's up on that: a cohort had 480 men and a legion more cohorts than you think, or at least than you wrote.

[Lord Dakier]

I believe its 10 Cohorts per Legion which is pretty standard to what infantry I put in a full stack anyhow.

Now what I'm saying is we have a Legion/Army builder which allows us to effectively plan the units we build giving us all sorts of useful figures such as total upkeep cost, recruitment cost and other details. Ofcourse keep the old method of just bring in some units but most will switch to the new improved method.

[Dicer]

apologizes but i did not post this question to start a pissing contest of who now more i simply looking for a answer thank you for correcting me though

[Lord Alexander Stark]

Legions are made up of 10 cohorts and each cohort of 6 century's of 80 men each exept the first cohort that consisted of 12 century's. So a legion counts 5500 legionary's and was more often as not reinforced by auxilaries to provide the horse and missile power! It is not going to be easy to recruit that in one move... but i would love it!!

[Lord Dakier]

What I'm saying is you have Rome which allows 3 recruitment slots per turn.

Then you have legionnaires and missiles both take 1 turn and 2 turns for cavalry for example this is.

Now when you go into the Legion builder you select the units you want in order of recruitment. Once selected press confrim after seeing the statistics of the legion. Then it begins the process of recruitment. Obviously in our statistics it gives the total time for development in turns.

Should the city contain too many garrison the recruited army is moved outside the city 1 tile till the player decides otherwise.

[Lord Baal]

Maybe you don't train singles unit as Rome, but instead order the Rise of a legion, that will take several turns depending on your infrastructure, man power, resources and other assorted stuff. Then you get the chance to train/get reinforcements in a more piecemeal style, but always having the "legion unit" (read, army) as the center of your attention. Perhaps even single units fight and/or move far without being integrated to a Legion.

Or even better, Legions will be automatically (or manually when you choose to), replenished automatically as you go about in your conquers be it by the local (and inexperienced) youth if sympathy (or fear) for you is high enough or trained reinforcements from Rome or other civilized city of your republic/empire. The first would be a good way to cheaply restore manpower at the expenses of experience, while the second would be a more expensive and slow way, but will ensure your legion don't loose much quality.

Anyway, as your borders expand and you civilize territories and develop the necessary infrastructure and production means the supply lines will get shorter, so the manpower would be at relative short hand... but I digress.