Auto Garrison feature replacing Militia units.

Hypersion · May 25th 2015, 3:20am

Militia units don't seem very useful compared to infantry. What about having them removed and replace with an auto garrison feature like in Rome Total War. When attacked a city's militia units would auto spawn based upon the city value/development. This would be more realistic historically since usually militia units where just local units that would not leave their immediate area. It would also make it more difficult to just blitzkrieg though a country with only armored units.

Pablo22510 · May 25th 2015, 8:30pm

Militia's main use is leaving it behind to prevent city from rebelling and joning another country. Other than that, I cannot think of more uses.

Wilhelm von Roos · May 25th 2015, 9:43pm

Pablo22510 wrote:

Militia's main use is leaving it behind to prevent city from rebelling and joning another country. Other than that, I cannot think of more uses.

If I did that I would use Infantry: faster, cheaper and stronger.

Kalantigos · May 25th 2015, 9:45pm

Militia aren't supposed to be a useful alternative to a trained infantry unit, they are a stop gap measure to fill in the numbers when you don't have the infrastructure to equip an army, or you need soldiers quickly.

Militia have half the recruitment time of infantry, and serve as the equivalent of conscripts, meatshields or cannon fodder. And keeping a large levy of untrained, inexperienced troops is not a good idea.

If I had any alterations to make, it would be to reduce either/or the manpower or grain costs to match the cost for normal infantry

V1nd1cat0r · May 26th 2015, 6:30am

the militia is weaker, and its resource cost compare to the infantry is lower but with the current cost it makes no difference, if you ask me the cost for a militia and infantry make no difference the militia cost should me greatly reduce.

and i tried using militias to take undefended territory in north Africa, you know the worthless large mass lands north of the map i use 2 militia units to take 5-7 of Africa at 80% effectiveness and guess what happen. it works but they rebel in the end, at least i got rid of them.

Walterchang · May 30th 2015, 2:08pm

Kalantigos wrote:

Militia aren't supposed to be a useful alternative to a trained infantry unit, they are a stop gap measure to fill in the numbers when you don't have the infrastructure to equip an army, or you need soldiers quickly.

Militia have half the recruitment time of infantry, and serve as the equivalent of conscripts, meatshields or cannon fodder. And keeping a large levy of untrained, inexperienced troops is not a good idea.

If I had any alterations to make, it would be to reduce either/or the manpower or grain costs to match the cost for normal infantry

That being the case, it would be really useful if you were able to disband units.

That way, you could quickly recruit militia to fend off a surprise attack, and then stand them down once the threat is over without having to maintain them for ever afterwards or deliberately send them to their deaths to get rid of them.

V1nd1cat0r · May 31st 2015, 7:28am

Disbanding them is a good idea but if implemented the only units affected are militias and the devs hard work implementing it a waste, I would suggest to significantly reduce their overall cost and training time, as well as to increase their defensive value on "core territory" only, least we can make them boys useful for a while.

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