Help, how do i Recruit more units in Crusade mode.

[henri]

i'm in act 3 , but cant figure it out how to gain more units in crusade , i'm limit with 4 with the general. have trouble to beat level 5- 7 demon army's.

[henri]

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[The Hat]

In act three, in army mode, there is a button on the bottom panel to recruit mercenaries or your trained troops. You need to build buildings to increase the rate at which they come and how many mercenaries are available. Build buildings both in your capital but also in forts that you capture, hospitals to lower the losses and eventually use kingdom cards to expand nearby forts so you can add more than 4 buildings to them also.

its all about lowering losses through healing magic, and fighting the easiest armies first, master of maneuver traits are also critical as you will eventually be making decisions with your companions at your council to gain more troops, come across locations that offer different troop types, or get events and cards which offer additional troops and recruitment options.

I left the level 7 armies for a while and hunted down all the 4's 5's and 6's first.

[henri]

what are the best order placements for the buildigns wich ones you go for?

[Naughty Mouse]

I think he is talking about units within an army. Not sure if its random or based on the general class, but you get upgrades as you level, and one of them includes to add another unit.

[The Hat]

Originally posted by henri:

what are the best order placements for the buildigns wich ones you go for?

That depends on the mythic path you take, as more units open up specific to it, and also which companions you have on the council, as they offer unique recruitment options. Go recruit greybor for example at the tavern so he will be on the council early on, as he has additional unit types.

For example I like hedgeknights, marksmen, clerics, duelists, deathknights, rangers, church guards, headhunters, vampires, spearmen, giants, mongrel fighters, vampires and zombies (to tank). I certainly haven't tried everything available but most of my armies are made up of these backed up by magic generals for healing, damage and maneuver traits.

Get a mercenary guild in every expanded fort, as well as the capital. Get one of each recruitment building up. Your military council, when its formed by you, will give you a cutscene where all the council, your companions, argue about which unit type you want to produce or have available as a mercenary. Often you'll still get the others come up time to time, and more options as you get more mercenary buildings in expanded forts. Several hospitals are also very useful and become more useful as your general levels up.

*I'll add I wish I had not picked Shield bearers or Cuirassiers, neither are terrible but they do no damage at all, just tank and I have zombies for that. Maybe they will be useful for the later game hard hitting demons.

[MaloJewell]

You are able to recruit new troops once per week. The amount of troops you can recruit depends on how high or low morale is. The types of troops and mercs you can recruit depends on decisions you've made throughout the game.

[henri]

ok thx , bro and i'm in trouble now because my defensive or siege banner is in red?

[MaloJewell]

Originally posted by henri:

ok thx , bro and i'm in trouble now because my defensive or siege banner is in red?

If your overall morale is in the negatives, then you will just get less and less troops to recruit each week. I think it raises by 1% per morale point. So, if you are at 20 morale you are getting 20% more troops to recruit. If you are at -20 morale you will get 20% less troops to recruit each week.

The banners just make your morale lower by several points each day. I think at 3 red banners you get -3 each day to your morale or more. Alot of the Crusader Management decisions can help with this though. Distribute Supplies is something you can do in Crusader Management, for instance, that will raise morale by 10-15 points when done and you can do that once per month I think. There are alot of other decisions you can make randomly in Crusader Management in the events section that raise morale too.

[The Hat]

Which one is it? The left means you need to kill another army on the map, the middle means you need to go take another fort, and the right one means one of the forts you have taken has fallen. They are on a timer to keep pushing you on the offensive.

[henri]

the right one , i dunno wich fort is fallen to.

[rgoodness]

Ha ha, so I have this friend, and he's made a ton of mistakes and didn't even *notice* morale until it was below -50, and so now it's at -100 and no units are growing and there's that one little fort to take down before Drezen and all of the monsters on my -- I mean my friend's -- map are at like level 5 and we just don't have the money to buy diamonds to recruit hellknights and so as far as the crusade part goes should I -- I mean, my friend -- just switch that layer off and go play Heroes of Might and Magic III again to get that particular fix?

It'll be a shame, I rather like HoMM, and "a crummy Heroes of Might and Magic ripoff" has described my reaction to every HoMM game since V, honestly. (V is, if you ask me, the best one.)

[Senok el Tirun]

Originally posted by henri:

ok thx , bro and i'm in trouble now because my defensive or siege banner is in red?

Also Mercenaries (as they move groups, and their numbers do not depend the same rule as the trainable units) cost more and more, depending on your Morale's (lower morale = more costly Mercenaries). Overall you have harder time keep up a proper army, if your followers doesn't think, you can win. (If you are a Lich, Mercenaries cost double from the get-go, but the undead units doesn't care about your Morale during the fights - as you cannot hire them, only get a few after a fight won, their 'income rate' is depending, how much enemy can you kill.)