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Siegebreaker
27-10-2003, 16:24
How are we going to fill up our ranks?
Recruited, like in Lords of the Realm 2, or "built", like in Age of Empires?

In Lords 2 the armies had to drafted from the actual peasant population, forcing you to chose between "swords or bread". A very nice twist.

It would be awesome to have that in KoH, and it would make population a very important resource, just like it was in real life.
The Preacher
27-10-2003, 19:29
From what i know the main problem with creating and maintaining an army was the cost of it, not that it would create a shortage of men, as over 90% of the population during the dark ages were made up of peasants. So I would rather go for the "build"-approach ...
Frujin
27-10-2003, 19:33
In KoH it is actually combined. :)
Thaisho
27-10-2003, 22:41
nice
fireball21
27-10-2003, 23:45
i would rather build them.
vyanvotts
28-10-2003, 00:20
i would rather take them from the population, adds more realisim, and it might actually make u value your serfs a bit more.
fireball21
28-10-2003, 00:35
if alot of your pop. dies off you have no one to recruit. no one to recruit then no one to fight. no one to fight then no way to protect:(
vyanvotts
28-10-2003, 00:39
exactly, thats the way it should be. this would make one look after the needs of there population which i think would make it more detalied....like when playing stronghold for example, i had a peasant population of about 80 and then an army of about 700, how this population could realisstiacly sustain them i dont know. i know stronghold wasn't trying to be realistic, but still:D
fireball21
28-10-2003, 00:47
good point. never thought of it that way
vyanvotts
28-10-2003, 00:50
im glad i convinced you:cheers:
fireball21
28-10-2003, 00:52
yep. you sure did. nice convicing:cheers:
vyanvotts
28-10-2003, 00:59
Originally posted by Frujin
In KoH it is actually combined. :)

i still dont understand how it will be combined.....maybe you could give us a few details there frujin :D
fireball21
28-10-2003, 01:55
you may be able to turn the feature to one or the other at the start. just a guess. it would be a nice thing to be able to do that:)
Pikeman
28-10-2003, 09:01
I think that they should be recruited from the population, as well as needing food (and payment for the elite troops and mercenaries). That would be realistic.:cool:
Siegebreaker
28-10-2003, 21:42
Originally posted by Pikeman
I think that they should be recruited from the population, as well as needing food (and payment for the elite troops and mercenaries). That would be realistic.:cool:


I agree.

I think they said somewhere around here that there is an upkeep in gold for the troops, right?

And they should eat too. :D
Frujin
29-10-2003, 10:15
There is no upkeep in gold yet. There is upkeep in food.
Jerome
29-10-2003, 19:54
that makes sense...

great stuff!

:)
vyanvotts
30-10-2003, 00:51
Originally posted by Frujin
There is no upkeep in gold yet. There is upkeep in food.

is upkeep in gold going to be added?
Spudster
30-10-2003, 03:43
or upkeep in rank maybe??
just a thought
vyanvotts
30-10-2003, 03:46
that will probably be true, as peasant soldiers will definitley cost less the other soldiers to up-keep.