are feudal's new "aspirant" units considered "evolve" units?

[Bomjus]

i'm assuming no because it's not explicitly stated as "evolve" and they evolve at legendary rank, not elite. but thought i'd ask just to be sure.

[Central]

aspirant units do not benefit from evolve boosts. its its own seperate mechanic (which functions a lot like evolve, but isnt evolve)

if you want to know more than you can read the dev diary on the fuedal rework, ill add the link to it.
source [forum.paradoxplaza.com]

[Burden of Brine]

No.
The source being the devs themselves, in the most recent dev dairy(#41);

These are contained within the new Aspirant traits, which function similarly to evolve but with two key differences: They do not benefit from effects that modify evolution (they are not evolving after all) and they require a particular condition to be met before they are able to promote into the higher tier unit.

[Bomjus]

gotcha. thanks.

[Bomjus]

on another note, not sure if this is a bug with the beta but i am unable to build defenders that have the "aspirant: liege guard" attribute in my cities. https://imgur.com/a/Z7A0Il3

even though it is stated in the encyclopedia that you can, somehow, get defenders with that attribute. am i doing something wrong? my archers seem to correctly have the aspirant longbow.

[Merethys]

You either get Longbows (Monarchy) or you get Liege Guards (Aristocracy). You don't get both.

[Balekai]

Originally posted by Merethys:

You either get Longbows (Monarchy) or you get Liege Guards (Aristocracy). You don't get both.

This as both subcultures get different Aspirant lines respectfully.

Monarch: Unique aspiring Archer unit that aspires into unique Longbow unit.
Aristocracy: Unique aspiring Defender unit that aspires into unique Liege Guard unit.

Which is why there's two Encyclopedia entries for both Archers and Defenders. :)

Edit: Note there's no actual difference between Aspring and Default Archer/Defender units. Just whether or not they have the Apiring trait.

[Senenleigh]

Originally posted by Bomjus:

on another note, not sure if this is a bug with the beta but i am unable to build defenders that have the "aspirant: liege guard" attribute in my cities. https://imgur.com/a/Z7A0Il3

even though it is stated in the encyclopedia that you can, somehow, get defenders with that attribute. am i doing something wrong? my archers seem to correctly have the aspirant longbow.

You need to take the aristocracy subculture instead of the monarchy subculture.