Do Event-Obtained Troops Cost Upkeep?

[DonCorazon]

Argh thats what I thought...these bums are draining my treasury. I plan to ship them off to a particularly dangerous province. Mwahahaha!

[jaif]

I tend to toss a commander onto them, couple them with a few decent troops, and use them to take indies on a secondary front. Later in the game, I use them to make a nuisance for someone else.

If your army is big enough, then they make good cannon fodder.

-Jeff

[NTJedi]

DonCorazon said:
Argh thats what I thought...these bums are draining my treasury. I plan to ship them off to a particularly dangerous province. Mwahahaha!

Yes the milita event has been previously discussed on the forums and the vast majority agree it's a bad event.
What's really bad is when they land in a province where there's also another army and the end result can be starvation/disease.

The milita can land in deep secure provinces as well where killing them might take 8+ turns of marching. The milita event means you pay more gold upkeep, you need to feed more units and you have a ton of low morale weak units.

[Rathar]

Drowning them is also fun.

Equip item which allows largish army underwater, march underwater, put all the militia in the leaderless box.

Poof!

[Meglobob]

I would like to see the militia event deleted from the game, its unnecessary micro, as it becomes a case of how can I kill those militia as fast as possible.

If its meant to be a 'lucky' event replace them with heavy infantry or archers or something more useful.

I have had 500+ of the little cowardly chaff draining my treasury before now...

[Sir_Dr_D]

There is a number of times when the militia events are good, particualiry at the beginning of the game. You can use them for:
patrolling
defenders in castle
sieging
decorations for enemy knights lance tips

It is when you get a large number of thos eevents that they become a problem.

[Edratman]

Rathar said:
Drowning them is also fun.

Equip item which allows largish army underwater, march underwater, put all the militia in the leaderless box.

Poof!

That's brillant.