{DIK} TIW Standardized Unit Pricing System

**Aneirin** · December 14, 2016, 01:11 AM

Please excuse my late response!

You have a point there. 'Better Management' was certainly a huge factor. I only fear that it will be quite difficult to represent it ingame. You see, I can only tweak global settlements income. What I can meddle with are the following:
- Kings Purse
- A Building's Attribute (Taxing, Trading income)
- A Character's Attribute

I absolutely agree with you, that would make it perfect. I'll will look into ETW once more and analyse what might of interest for our mod.

Many thank's for your efforts, mate

No worries, the Kingdom of France was the first to introduce a kind of standing armies with their cavalry companies. They also tried to set up such companies for infantry, but that went not very well.
I'll have a look myself to figure out some more military cultures during the Italian Wars.

We do for sure

**k/t** · January 01, 2017, 02:06 PM

Great, another guy who changed his name. Let's make things more confusing for everyone.

My system has price modifiers for each type of unit. Look under UPKEEP COSTS.

Quality:
peasant militia, militia - x 0.5
average, superior - x 0.75
elite, exceptional - x 1

There are also modifiers for recruitment costs of units.

Now, when you say "4 turns to recruit Condottieri", you mean 4 turns for a new unit to become available, right?

Thanks for the praise, Geoffrey and Jean

. I do get the occasional Rep point for my work, but written out praise (and the comments on Rep points) is so much better.

**Aneirin** · January 01, 2017, 04:34 PM

Sure, where would be the fun

Glad to see you back

Well, yes. You see, the problem is that it has a too minor effect on the unit price. Also it is not effecting the recruitment costs, which is in our point of view a huge problem.

**k/t** · January 02, 2017, 04:20 PM

There are modifiers for each quality level for recruitment costs too. You can change those too, if you want.

The reason why I didn't make Militia and Levy units too cheap was that removing a lot of workers from their jobs causes economic activity to decrease, costing the ruler money indirectly. I wanted to show the opportunity cost of diverting workers into the army. This helps ensure Militia and Levy units are kept around more for emergencies and defense, since they have free_upkeep.

I am not back yet, haha. I am still about two and a half months away from returning home. I look forward to playing HURB, TA and TLK again.

**Aneirin** · January 03, 2017, 01:40 PM

I see. I'll have a look once more. In any case we will test the settings

Well, then have a good time!

**jurcek1987** · January 15, 2017, 11:36 AM

k/t, as much as I love your pricing system, I believe it is based too much on realism and not enough on balance. In my opinion early pro units are too cheap, cavalry especially.

**k/t** · January 20, 2017, 07:38 PM

I thought it worked fine in my BC submod. You can check the EDU of that to see the costs of different units. Early Professional units have lower replenishment rates, so you wouldn't get that many anyway. You can always change the system to suit your mod.