Mercenary System

[Obskiuras]

I had an idea that you might like: If you capture an enemy militar building, you can recruit units of that civilization as mercenary units paying with metal and you can recruit only mitilar units that your faction don´t have as mercenaries. For example, if you are using Spartans faction and you capture a iberian barrack from your enemy, you can recruit iberian swordmen from that barrack for maybe... 100 metal. . If you capture a enemy workshop from Romans, then you can recruit a balista as mercenary units for maybe... 300 metal.

[real_tabasco_sauce]

This is kind of already the case with certain civs/buildings, like the carth mercs. However, I think it should be made consistent unless there's some huge balance issue (like multiple discounts leading to 10 metal mercs).

[Deicide4u]

18 hours ago, Obskiuras said:

you can recruit units of that civilization as mercenary units paying with metal and you can recruit only mitilar units that your faction don´t have as mercenaries

I agree with this, but Spartans already have infantry swordsmen (Skiritae) and...

18 hours ago, Obskiuras said:

If you capture a enemy workshop from Romans, then you can recruit a balista as mercenary units

Siege ballistae aren't Mercenaries, they're machines that don't have ranks.

I don't think you should be able to recruit anything other than Rams from captured Arsenals.

[Obskiuras]

On 02/09/2025 at 1:57 PM, Deicide4u said:

I agree with this, but Spartans already have infantry swordsmen (Skiritae) and...

Siege ballistae aren't Mercenaries, they're machines that don't have ranks.

I don't think you should be able to recruit anything other than Rams from captured Arsenals.

There were civs in ancient time that like Mongols , who kidnapped engineers to build siege engines.

[Obskiuras]

In this way, certain buildings become more valuable and players will be forced to protect them even more, adopting the strategy of destroying them themselves to prevent their enemy from capturing them.

[Classic-Burger]

The capture system needs to be improved first, as it hasn't received many changes since A16.

There should be a cooldown and an assimilation process.

 

2 hours ago, Obskiuras said:

There were civs in ancient time that like Mongols , who kidnapped engineers to build siege engines.

The Dacians learned a little about making siege machinery from the Romans.