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    In one of the events recently, it was mentioned that you could rebuild a lost Legion if you recaptured the standard. But everyone else seems to say you don't need to capture the standard to rebuild a named legion?

    What's the truth here? I think it would be amazing to have to recapture a standard.

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    I heard that once too, but apparently you can re-recruit that destroyed army in a city (which means you don't have to re-capture an eagle).
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    Default Re: Recapture the Eagle

    you have to re capture the standard to rebuild that Legion that lost in battle
    but you can raise a completely new Legion if you can't capture the standard of course a new legion don't have any tradition
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    Quote Originally Posted by vietanh797 View Post
    you have to re capture the standard to rebuild that Legion that lost in battle
    but you can raise a completely new Legion if you can't capture the standard of course a new legion don't have any tradition
    Right, that's ONE thing I heard, but other devs are saying other stuff, and I wish we could get confirmation. And yes I wonder what happens with other factions if they lose their standard.

    Maybe this is a feature that was cut

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    But they MUST!!!! make event that will happen when you lost eagle, like recapture the eagle...

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    Make and example like this
    Your Rome have 4 Legion(let's say you limit is 4 armies max)
    Name Legion I, Legion II, Legion III, Legion IV
    You sent a Legion III to suicide(just an example) And lost the eagle
    Now you want to raise a new army you have 2 choice, sent one of others army Legion I, II or IV to defeat the enemies that murder those idiots in Legion III and recapture the eagle so you can re raise Legion III

    Or you can raise Legion V, let Legion III sleep with history until you have a chance to capture the Legion and extend your armies limit
    Last edited by vietanh797; August 01, 2013 at 02:47 PM.
    Empire II and Medieval III pls

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    are standards losable and recapture-able for all factions?
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    As far as I remember, the eagle thing was an optional goal on the Teutoburg historical battle. I don't think that will be included on the campaign map.

    Although, it should. I don't quite like the "rebuild your legion" if it was defeated, I would like some penalization or prerequisites.

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    The question I would like to ask first is, are the Eagles 'allowed' to be lost at all?

    Because in RTW, one could lose Eagles (by being completely annihilated with a First Cohort in your army) and it would be carried to the nearest enemy city, where it would remain until it was recovered. And until it was recovered, the period was a hugely shameful, great drop of prestige with Senate and the People. I think leaders even got bad traits because of it.

    But if the Eagles cannot be lost, how can they be recovered?
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    All that happened in RTW? I don't think I ever lost any battles after I started putting out post-Marian Legionaries.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gelston View Post
    All that happened in RTW? I don't think I ever lost any battles after I started putting out post-Marian Legionaries.
    Yep, it did happen. I have seen it only twice though - in the first time my nearly decimated army with a First Cohort of only 15 men was crushed in auto-resolve; second time when my First Cohort was marching alone to join the main army but was caught on the way by a huge Seleucid army (damned armored elephants ), and it was killed to the last man. I retook the eagle both of the times though.

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    Reminds me a movie...
    Last edited by PlPs; August 01, 2013 at 05:57 PM.

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    Um must've been a long time cause I don't ever remember this being a feature in Rome....can someone confirm if this is true or?
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    I never liked the re-recruiting of legions.. They better lose alot of experience and even a good chunk of their tradition points or whatever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidtheDuke View Post
    I never liked the re-recruiting of legions.. They better lose alot of experience and even a good chunk of their tradition points or whatever.
    Presumably even with all the traditions and so on intact, one still has to use completely fresh units without veterancy, that could be quite a blow if you've used a certain army for 40 turns or so.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidtheDuke View Post
    I never liked the re-recruiting of legions.. They better lose alot of experience and even a good chunk of their tradition points or whatever.
    I agree. It would be interesting if they lost tradition skills the longer they weren't rebuilt.

    And recapture the eagle (or battle standard for non roman armies) would be really fun. And if they get beat some other army would have their standard and the standards that were previously captured. So if you were Rome and lost an army standard to Macedonians and then the Macedonians went all the way to Bactria and lost your Roman standard would be all the way in Bactria.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skizbot View Post
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