reward battles and unit merging

**thebestant** · July 30, 2012, 10:10 AM

whenever i played rome 1 i found it kind of funny i didn't get any money for winning battles. i think you should earn some money and armor upgrades when you win a battle as a result of scavenging the enemy bodies and such.also let this be visible in later in later battles like seeing legionaries with slightly different clothing depending on which faction their fighting (like roman armor patched up with pieces of greek armor, or desert rags under their armor)

also another feature i would like to see is the ability to merge different units into one during battle. because it gets pretty annoying when you have 2 or 3 units of cavalry depleted to like 10 troops. this can apply to same class of soldier like light merge with light troops archer to archer phalanx units merge with phalanx units even if their not the same unit card like early legionaries and late legionaries. and it should only last for the duration of the battle not the whole campaign.

please give me your opinion on this and i apologize if there has already been a thread about this i haven't been on the forums to much

**Humble Warrior** · July 30, 2012, 10:21 AM

You don`t earn money from winning battles. Soldiers and scavengers tend to take whatever`s left on the battlefield for themselves. Generals never ask them to hand over what they`ve got for a rather good reason....
Taking cities is a different story.

I suppose merging units on the battle is possible (although you should have done it before the battle started), but merging different units is not possible. It just doesn`t work that way. Soldiers trained and bought up in different military disciplines even ones like late and early Legionnaires simply wouldn`t `mesh`. Some units have a very strong tradition and won`t appreciate being `mixed and matched` especially with `lesser` troops. They don`t do this in real life just because it often upsets soldiers..

Look at it this way: Soldiers are humans and you can`t mess with them any which way before they start rebelling. They are not supposed to be robots. Some leaders in real life forgot this to their detriment.

**thebestant** · July 30, 2012, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by Humble Warrior

You don`t earn money from winning battles. Soldiers and scavengers tend to take whatever`s left on the battlefield for themselves. Generals never ask them to hand over what they`ve got for a rather good reason....
Taking cities is a different story.

I suppose merging units on the battle is possible (although you should have done it before the battle started), but merging different units is not possible. It just doesn`t work that way. Soldiers trained and bought up in different military disciplines even ones like late and early Legionnaires simply wouldn`t `mesh`. Some units have a very strong tradition and won`t appreciate being `mixed and matched` especially with `lesser` troops. They don`t do this in real life just because it often upsets soldiers..

Look at it this way: Soldiers are humans and you can`t mess with them any which way before they start rebelling. They are not supposed to be robots. Some leaders in real life forgot this to their detriment.

i guess your right about that but i still think you should still be able to see the different clothing and armor upgrades on the soldiers. also you should still be able to merge the 2 of the same unit cards in battle as they they depleted.

**Lord Baal** · July 30, 2012, 10:47 AM

Armor upgrades, yes, money, not so much. Unless you hit a check pot and the enemy army had huge cash piles lying around it will be hard to ask each soldier to hand over the loot they collected, at least not for long before they also stab you in the back.