Can the amount of soldiers in a unit be randomized?

[Semper_Fidelis]

So what kinda made me wonder is how for town watch they always had the same number of troops, it should be randomized , say 70 to 200 troops, and for militia it would be 100 to 200. But for the more conventional style troops it would be the normal amount.

[The Great Montrose]

yeah pretty good idea, maybe depending on the population of the town/city decides how big your town watch unit is ?

[AngryTitusPullo]

yeah pretty good idea, maybe depending on the population of the town/city decides how big your town watch unit is ?

It's already somewhat already in game since ETW. Bigger cities have more units than smaller cities.

[Holger Danske]

no

[Chris Death]

^^ this

~S~ CD

[Outlawed]

Just seems like an easy way to imbalance a balanced product.

[Condottiere 40K]

Depends on how it impacts on recruitment costs; an organized society, though, probably has an organized army with standard number of personnel per unit.

[♔The Black Knight♔]

The only thing I could see that happening is with a peasant/mob unit. All the rest should have a set number.


Aslo would like to see mobs and peasants to be less organized.

[Lord Baal]

Technically it can be done. It's a matter of assigning a randomizer in the unit recruitment that have a min and max in consideration. For some factions it could fit perfectly and add more flavor, perhaps the European barbarians would use this. Perhaps as you gain battles and reputation more people start following you and your unit gets to a maximum. Attention I'm not suggesting they where unwashed savages, just that they don't coordinated their numbers in units as franticly as the romans did.

Imagine this: A war band is recruited and the amount of mens stats says something like 100-250. At first is sits around 125 because the chieftain is not so notorious. As you gain battles with this chieftain, or it gain positive traits towards this the unit strength increases up to 250. In the guy ends up death and is not replaced/succeed by someone with his same prestige then the unit start to gradually lose it's maximum unit strength back to 100.

[The Great Montrose]

Technically it can be done. It's a matter of assigning a randomizer in the unit recruitment that have a min and max in consideration. For some factions it could fit perfectly and add more flavor, perhaps the European barbarians would use this. Perhaps as you gain battles and reputation more people start following you and your unit gets to a maximum. Attention I'm not suggesting they where unwashed savages, just that they don't coordinated their numbers in units as franticly as the romans did.

Imagine this: A war band is recruited and the amount of mens stats says something like 100-250. At first is sits around 125 because the chieftain is not so notorious. As you gain battles with this chieftain, or it gain positive traits towards this the unit strength increases up to 250. In the guy ends up death and is not replaced/succeed by someone with his same prestige then the unit start to gradually lose it's maximum unit strength back to 100.

[Bobz]

No, I don't see that working well within the game. Just gives you a unnecessary problem when you end up with a stack of understrength units, and the AI gets something else to cheat at.

[Condottiere 40K]

One interesting variant is that the number changes season to season, perhaps randomly, perhaps in a pattern, while upkeep remains the same.