Some questions on LA Ermor

ese-aSH · #1 January 15th, 2009, 06:29 AM

thanks Jim, I guess I'll have to train for a while just on the first 2 years to improve that.

I had a serious issue in my test game : the indep mages always costed 3 up to 5 resources each (the game is to be played with CBM, I dont know if it changes something there), and I did not have that many resources in the provinces they were found. Therefore I was unable to recruit any of them :'(

In my test game I'm now around the end of year 4, I've cast burden of times quite early (I had a magic site that gives +20 to enchantments, so I decided to use this strong bonus) and it seems it was worth the cost. I've launch a serious assault on one of the AI, but this had terrible consequences on my research (I did take 1/3 of my mages to support the army, and since i'm very limited in researchers...).
Theres a skull that boost research (+9 ?) for 10 gems, I should use it more (by far the best gems/rp turn ratio I can get). Does it have any drawbacks ? (in a nother game with marignon I use to build lots of fire research boost +6 but it horror marked all my mages)

Endoperez · #2 January 15th, 2009, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by ese-aSH

thanks Jim, I guess I'll have to train for a while just on the first 2 years to improve that.

I had a serious issue in my test game : the indep mages always costed 3 up to 5 resources each (the game is to be played with CBM, I dont know if it changes something there), and I did not have that many resources in the provinces they were found. Therefore I was unable to recruit any of them :'(

If you have even 1 resource, the mage will be recruited eventually. Resources are collected over time if units in queue demand more than the province can provide.
Provinces with 0 resources, from total pop-death or from being surrounded by castles with very high total admin rate, can't recruit anything, but even 1 resource is enough to recruit one mage every few turns.

ese-aSH · #3 January 15th, 2009, 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Endoperez

... Resources are collected over time ...

I'm pretty sure this is innacurate. Are you certain of that ?

edit : my memory from the manual "number of forges blabla number of forgerons blabla"

SlipperyJim · #4 January 15th, 2009, 07:00 AM

Endo is right. Any province with non-zero resources will eventually produce everything in its queue. It may take months to recruit a single Mage with only 1 resource, but it will happen.

Unless ... the province drops to 0 resources before recruitment is complete.

Or ... the unrest in the province rises over 100. If that happens, recruitment will stop until the unrest is handled.

JimMorrison · #5 January 15th, 2009, 07:29 AM

If you don't believe it, make a game with 3Sloth, and the first province you find with indie commanders that cost more resource than the province gets, buy one. You should get him quite shortly.