Auxiliary Recruitments

**Gilad** · November 05, 2015, 01:48 AM

I remember this being discussed before a very long time ago, but what is the stance on enabling aux units to be recruited outside of their home regions in exchange for longer recruitment times or increased costs? Biggest issue I could see would be possibly very significant increased loading speeds since this would likely result in quite a bit more calculations taking place. One potential work around for that would be to have aux units use the merc system - aux units are available as cheaper mercs if recruited outside of their home region or same price but extra turns to recruit based off of distance.

**♔Greek Strategos♔** · November 05, 2015, 06:23 AM

Interesting point...

**Kjertesvein** · November 05, 2015, 07:19 AM

To give people who are not familiar with the backstory, Aux units were recruited in one province and had to be stationed in other provinces to prevent those aux units from being a danger to the empire.

~Wille

**Gilad** · November 05, 2015, 08:38 AM

Not necessarily. That was more of how the Romans dealed with migrating tribes. After the empire was established, legions really just used nearby aux units for border duty. However when going on campaign against the Parthians or Sassanids they would pool different aux units together. An exampled would be Caesar sending Crassus some Gallic cavalry for his Parthian expedition.

**Linke** · November 05, 2015, 09:54 AM

All that only matters for the first 25 or so years, after that units would (with exceptions like Syrians and Batavians) recruit locally so any old ties would be erased.

**FlashHeart07** · November 05, 2015, 10:06 AM

But it is not possible to increase recruitment time. Well it is, but the AI cannot handle it and it would mean that the Roman AI wouldnt build these troops.

**Don_Diego** · November 05, 2015, 01:01 PM

Also bear in mind in current set up you have to conquer the region first before you can recruit the local auxiliaries. Taking over Britain and gaining access to Syrian archers for example does not make sense. I think different local auxiliaries makes things more interesting rather than having them all available at once in any place.

**Gilad** · November 05, 2015, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by Don_Diego

Also bear in mind in current set up you have to conquer the region first before you can recruit the local auxiliaries. Taking over Britain and gaining access to Syrian archers for example does not make sense. I think different local auxiliaries makes things more interesting rather than having them all available at once in any place.

Thinking my point got missed -

Basically - If you own the region to produce aux Syrian archers and are able to recruit them in that region, then when you're raising an army in Britain you're able to recruit Syrian archers that cost X and take Y to simulate the travelling required to reach that new army.

That said, Flash answered the question on why this was dropped :p