Putting warriors and archers in one formation).īefore researching this idea, it should be not possible to mix units, but still possible to have 'homogeneous' formations (warrior formation and archer formation separately). The first, basic 'lochagos' idea might become available as early as in Stone age allowing formations to be composed of different units (e.g. The specialisation should not be permanent - a formation might earn experience from different operations and be subject to corresponding specialisation options that are always available, but any re-specialisation should come at a hefty cost. large barbarian raiding armies), although it should be a challenge to achieve a high level of survivability for formations, that would allow the military experience property to be gathered, which would enable formation to evolve.Ī budget and satisfied needs** should also be vital, but a formation that has never encountered a battle must not evolve (reconnaissance formations being an exception and generally being unsuitable for any battle engagement).

This property should directly affect the displayed military strength and allow smaller highly-experienced and highly-organised formations to defeat larger formations that are poorly organised (e.g. Having a military governor in a non-capital city might provide bonuses to loyalty and administrative power.Īnd finally, one could come to an idea of military governors’ council, that would lower the AP required for certain operations as well as provide administrative power (see Ancient Greece for combined military-political examples). Having enough experienced formations led by their leaders might lead to an idea of having a military governor, that would allow coordinated cross-unit actions (when multiple formations attack or defend an object and are acting as a large super-formation), or allow merging existing formations with different specialisations without losing the leaders, yet requiring lower budget to operate effectively, or temporarily attaching one (or more) formation to another. Any formation without a commander might suffer a penalty. reconnaissance battalion, that would flag the resources when they explore the tiles* and have an increased overall observation radius), allow the formations to elect their own leaders (the most experienced trooper in formation), who would have their own stats, needs, etc. This property might trigger then some military idea, that would lead to specialisation of formations based on their operational history (e.g. I would suggest formations having a military experience property, that would be acquirable when performing professional duties and would depend on how many operations the formation has taken part in, type of the operations, their outcome, formation survivability and budget. Suggestion will be available on Trello as a comment to the Army Traditions card.

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