Regional Recruiting Centers

[Hummer]

Question for some of the EB experts out there.

What are the best cities/provinces to build regional recruitment?

For example. In Ancyra in Asia Minor, if I build a Type 4 government and a Level 5 MIC, I can recruit Celtic-Hellenic Infantry, Gallic Heavy Spearmen, Gallic Heavy Cavalry, and the Getsae (naked guys, how do you spell that?).

What other cities have either a large variety or high quality troops in the Regional MIC system?

Are there any cities in particular that stand out as better than the rest?

[Ryoga84]

The right question is "wich faction are you playin'?

[Entropy Judge]

As Ryoga84 said, the most important question you need to answer is what faction you're playing as, since that dictates what troops you want, and therefore which regions are going to be important. It's a good idea to check the Recruitment viewer, since it can answer this sort of question for you. Also, are you just looking for places where you *can* recruit great units regardless of location, or just the ones that have neat units you might not think to look at?

For example. In Ancyra in Asia Minor, if I build a Type 4 government and a Level 5 MIC, I can recruit Celtic-Hellenic Infantry, Gallic Heavy Spearmen, Gallic Heavy Cavalry, and the Getsae (naked guys, how do you spell that?).

Gaesatae ... which means you're either the Aedui or Arverni. Scratch that, you're Carthage. Derp on my part.

Are there any cities in particular that stand out as better than the rest?

Hm ... Cantabria (Spain) is a good one, since it has Asturian Axemen. The Alpine regions are good, as well, with Tekastos and the Appea Gaedotos (and the Helvetii Phalanx? That might be factional ...). Odrysai in the Thracian lands is another good one, with Elite Thracians and Gallo-Thracian Infantry. Kalabria and Brettia in the foot of Italy have good selections of Greek and Italian units, although you're going to have to deal with Rome at some point to get there. Mikra Skythia might be worth it, as well, since you can recruit some decent infantry as well as Horse Archers. And ... well, I'm too lazy to go through and check stuff for Carthage, because I have basically no knowledge on what they already have access to, although I suspect that poking around in the regions I noted above will still yield some good results, since there's usually good stuff there for everyone.

[yuezhi]

Question for some of the EB experts out there.

What are the best cities/provinces to build regional recruitment?

The starting homeland of every faction. duh.

What other cities have either a large variety or high quality troops in the Regional MIC system?

Whatever provinces are the outermost of your victory conditions[?]

[athanaric]

If Carthage, every province. Otherwise it depends on what you need. Generally speaking, Iran has good missile troops and light infantry (archers, slingers, axemen, spearmen), Greece has good heavy infantry (hoplites and peltasts; also slingers unless you're playing Rome), Thrace has heavy hitters (lancers and heavy AP units), Iberia has excellent light units (skirmishers and swordsmen mostly), Numidia has missile units, Skythia has archers and HAs, and so on.

Scratch that, you're Carthage. Derp on my part.

I'm confused. Where does it say he's playing Carthage?

[Entropy Judge]

I'm confused. Where does it say he's playing Carthage?

If he's getting Gaesatae as Regionals, wouldn't he have to be playing Carthage? According to the Recruitment Viewer, neither the Aedui nor the Arverni can recruit Gaesatae in Galatia anyway, so ....

[Hummer]

Sorry guys. I didn't realize that question was so confusing. I also didn't realize that it was so different for each faction. I assumed regional recruitment was more generic and was quite similar for each faction.

The example I stated above was for Pontus.
So I checked the recruitment viewer and

as Carthage you can recruit the naked guys but none of the other listed troops as Pontus for Ancyra.
as Rome you can recruit the Galatian Heavy Spearmen but none of the other listed troops as Pontus for Ancyra.

See, I assumed that the listed regional's for Pontus would be the same for other factions. Guess I was wrong.

One thing I did notice.

It appears most Factions can recruit Kretan archers with a Level 4 MIC on Crete. This unit appears quite generic. I checked Rome, Carthage, Ptolemai, Selekuids, Makedonia, Koinon Hellenon, Epeirus, Pontus, Hayasdan, Pahlava, Baktria, Aedui, Arverni, Getai
So, perhaps a better question is...

Are there any other regional units like Kretan Archers that are common to many factions like this unit is?

Thanks for all the prompt responses.
Cheers

[Entropy Judge]

The example I stated above was for Pontus.

Ah, then the naked warriors you were referring to were the Galatikoi Tindanotae, not the Gaesatae.

[Ryoga84]

The alpine units are somewhat common (from Helvetis, Rhetia and Noricum)
likewise the basic greek and hellenic units (levy hoplites, pantodapoi, classical hoplites) in every hellenized province
and are common a great deal of the local tribes-related units (the baltic troops, oksywie swordmen, cappadocian hillmen, hyrkanian hillmen and karian warbands)

[athanaric]

Kretan archers are available to everyone. As stated above, this also applies to all Baltic units; Oskywie swordsmen; all of the "eastern axemen" units (the Iranian, not the Arabic ones); all Scythian units except the Noble Cavalry; basic Persian archers/slingers/javelineers, Parthian spearmen; all Ethiopians except for the cavalry; Sabaean archers, Arab slingers, skirmishers, and cavalry; Machimoi swordsmen; Greek Toxotai, Akontistai, Peltastai; three of the five Thracian units; none of the Dacian ones - which sucks -; most of the Eastern mounted skirmishers; Alpine and Helveti Phalanx, Noricene spearmen; Iaosatae and Gaeroas; Balroas, Batacorii; Iberi Milites, Velites, and Caetrati; Asturian axemen and skirmishers, Cantabrian cavalry; all Numidian units except for the nobles; Maure infantry; Rorarii, Camillan Hastati and Equites; Ligurian units, and a couple more I guess.

Basically, all or most basic to mid tier units from any given region. There are only a few elite units that are available to all factions though; I can only recall Thracian Rhomphaiaphoroi, Scordisci Elites, and Helveti phalanx.

[Hummer]

Kretan archers are available to everyone. As stated above, this also applies to all Baltic units; Oskywie swordsmen; all of the "eastern axemen" units (the Iranian, not the Arabic ones); all Scythian units except the Noble Cavalry; basic Persian archers/slingers/javelineers, Parthian spearmen; all Ethiopians except for the cavalry; Sabaean archers, Arab slingers, skirmishers, and cavalry; Machimoi swordsmen; Greek Toxotai, Akontistai, Peltastai; three of the five Thracian units; none of the Dacian ones - which sucks -; most of the Eastern mounted skirmishers; Alpine and Helveti Phalanx, Noricene spearmen; Iaosatae and Gaeroas; Balroas, Batacorii; Iberi Milites, Velites, and Caetrati; Asturian axemen and skirmishers, Cantabrian cavalry; all Numidian units except for the nobles; Maure infantry; Rorarii, Camillan Hastati and Equites; Ligurian units, and a couple more I guess.

Basically, all or most basic to mid tier units from any given region. There are only a few elite units that are available to all factions though; I can only recall Thracian Rhomphaiaphoroi, Scordisci Elites, and Helveti phalanx.

This.

Thanks, I was hoping someone could sum it up for me. That pretty much did it.

[Boriak]

Getting the Recruitment Viewer would solve most of your problems. I'm saying this because there's been a lot of new threads lately, asking about how and where to train units. All these answers are in the Recruitment Viewer.

[Frtigern]

Here is a list of units interesting available to Pontos that I found useful. You could go north and become a quasi-Steppe faction, utilizing horse archers and pike phalanxes together. You could also be a barbarian/faction troop army with lots of Celtic and Thracian melee troops or you could go skirmisher type with lots of archers, slingers, peltasts and light cavalry. You are centrally located between a few different cultures.

Bosphoran Heavy Archers
Heavy Persian Archers
Indian Longbowmen
Thracian Medium Cavalry
Galatian Heavy Cavalry
Scythian Noble Cavalry
Sarmatian Noble Horse-Archers
Alan Nobles
Nomadic Noble Mercenary
Scythian Horse-Archers
Parthian Horse-Archers
Yuezhi Horse Archers
Roxolani Riders
Aorsi Riders
Dahae Riders
Scythian Riders