Re: Empire 2 Total War, suggestions and ideas
I'm enjoying reading the ideas on this thread. I like the idea of each regiment being valuable, unique and connected to the city or area where it was recruited.
This might sound odd, but I wonder if elite units should be recruitable from barracks. I'm not saying that Guards and other elite units didn't exist, of course they did. I'm suggesting that elite regiments benefit from military traditions gained through military campaigns as well as training - in other words, elite units could be formed by experience, not simply recruited.
Maybe ordinary regiments could gradually become elite regiments through something simiar to the heroic victory mechanic in some older games, where a captain commanding an army could become a general through heroic leadership, or the military traditions in Rome II where a veteran army acquires bonuses? I can imagine this being implemented in either of two ways:
1. If elite regiments recruit the best soldiers from ordinary regiments (I could be wrong and I imagine they would have trained raw recruits at times), then maybe, as an extension of the 'merge units' option, the player could merge two (or more) very experienced regiments to form an elite regiment?
2. Maybe an experienced regiment which is especially successful on the battlefield (for example by not breaking under severe pressure and by killing unusually large numbers of enemies) could sometimes qualify as an elite unit (similar to gaining experience chevrons), so that elite units are formed through experience rather than simply recruited?