I can't hire a guard

[sasa.aleks]

please tell me what to do in order to have the opportunity to hire a guard. Thanks in advance!

[g0r3yl0v3rz]

What do you mean hire a guard?

Do you mean mercenaries?
Or a personal bodyguard?

There is no mechanic for hiring a personal bodyguard.

[★Jaw★]

Or do you mean Retinues? With retinues you need land, military tech, and some buildings in your castle/tribal holding that boost retinue counts in order to hire them.

[galadon3]

Originally posted by Ulrich Leland:

Or do you mean Retinues? With retinues you need land, military tech, and some buildings in your castle/tribal holding that boost retinue counts in order to hire them.

And the Legacy of Rome DLC wich enables retinues

[★Jaw★]

Originally posted by galadon3:

Originally posted by Ulrich Leland:

Or do you mean Retinues? With retinues you need land, military tech, and some buildings in your castle/tribal holding that boost retinue counts in order to hire them.

And the Legacy of Rome DLC wich enables retinues

Keep forgetting some peasants don't have the dlc

[sasa.aleks]

not active the first button in the menu where you hire troops.... I may be a peasant, but I have DLC. :) Thanks in advance!

[Doc]

Originally posted by sasa.aleks:

not active the first button in the menu where you hire troops.... I may be a peasant, but I have DLC. :) Thanks in advance!

If you're just starting out, particularly as a Count, you may simply not have enough in your retinue cap to be able to afford to recruit even one. Generally it's pretty hard for a Duke to be able to get more than one retinue unit, although Kings can often support a decent-sized number.

[Valentine Michael Smith]

on your military tab there should be 3 different sections toward the top retinue / levies / fleet levies

[sasa.aleks]

the fact of the matter is that I am twice the king (Brittany and France), and the squad can not collect.

[al_x_ator2411]

Also, there are 3 little buttons that determine how quickly retinues replenish: regular, half-speed, not at all (for when you're broke). So make sure the 3rd button is not pressed.

[Zsrai]

Originally posted by sasa.aleks:

the fact of the matter is that I am twice the king (Brittany and France), and the squad can not collect.

Your english (or google translate) is so poor that you will likely have much better luck asking in your native language.

[al_x_ator2411]

Do you think he might be talking about merging the levies?

[Zsrai]

Originally posted by al_x_ator2411:

Do you think he might be talking about merging the levies?

No clue. If so, why mention having 2 Kingdom titles in the first half of the sentence?

[Karlington]

Originally posted by Zsrai:

No clue. If so, why mention having 2 Kingdom titles in the first half of the sentence?

Probably because he was told:

"Generally it's pretty hard for a Duke to be able to get more than one retinue unit, although Kings can often support a decent-sized number."

...so he probably wanted to state that he should have enough size to support retinues.

"the squad can not collect" almost certainly means "retinues can't be hired." And by "guard" I believe he means retinue. I don't think his English is that hard to understand?

I replied to you in another thread, sasa.aleks, but in case you don't see that reply I will copy it to here as well:

"Aha! They are called "retinues" in English. :) To be able to hire them you have to have enough "retinue cap" for the unit you want to hire. Retinue cap is based on the number of holdings in your realm, your military organization tech, and the building "training grounds."

The Wikipedia page has the exact formula for calculating the retinue cap, and also the amount of retinue cap you need for the different units: https://ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Retinues#Retinue_cap :)

Note that you do require the Legacy of Rome DLC active to be able to hire retinues."

[Zsrai]

Originally posted by Karlshammar:

I don't think his English is that hard to understand?

It's hard enough with the different words and terrible syntax. It's not a dig on the OP, just an observation. It happens a lot on the Steam forums, and it would likely just be easier if the question was made in their native tongue than in a google translated english.

[sasa.aleks]

вот пишу на родном, мой родной русский.

Играю за Бретань (не Британия), начинал играть за графа Леон, а сейчас дважды король. Все постройки в замке III-IV уровня, организация войск - 3. Во вкладке найма войск три кнопки: "нанять гвардию", "нанять армию", "нанять флот", так вот кнопка "нанять гвардию" не активна.

вопрос: - что сделать, что-бы она активировалась и я мог нанять гвардию?