Where to recruit Highland Archers

[Blade_Seduction]

Hi all,

i am playing ROTR as Insubres and highland archers are part of the roster but i can't seem to find what building they are recruited from. Can anyone help me out?

[Brigantes Celt]

for Arverni in Grand Campaign, you recruit archers with :
Craftsmans House (level 1) --> Woodworker (level 2).
I am assuming it's the same for the Insubres Highland Archers in RotR.

If you right click on the building icons, you bring up a screen to show you all the choices for higher tier buildings, with what effects they have, and which units they produce.

[Alwyn]

I would have guessed that it was Craftsmans House > Woodworker too. However, when I tried that, it didn't allow me to recruit extra units (unless I didn't develop it to a high enough level).

In my Insubres campaign, the building which unlocked recruitment of archers was Communal Grounds > Horn Maker. However, this allowed the recruitment of Gallic Hunters, not Highland Archers - so the mystery of how to recruit Highland Archers remains unsolved. (The next level above Horn Maker is Trumpet Maker, which allows recruitment of Longsword Warriors and Gallic Axemen). I am sorry for not being able to answer!

[LuciusSuperbus]

Probably locked behind tech. I know certain units on the Roman Roster are that way atleast. Once you hit a certain tech level certain troops turn into hastai, principles, triararii etc....

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[Alwyn]

You could well be right, Lucius Superbus.

Another possibility occurred to me. This might be a typo in the startpos (the file which creates the game files are the start). My Insubres can recruit Gallic Archers, which might be called something like archers_gallic in the game's files (I'm just guessing, I don't know that they're actually called in the files). Highland Archers are a Caledonian unit in Empire Divided, so that might be archers_gaelic. Obviously, archers_gallic and archers_gaelic would only be one letter apart - it would be easy to intend to type one, and to type the other by mistake. That's just a guess.

On reflection, my guess is probably wrong, because the Highland Archer unit in the Insubres roster has a unit card which is similar to other Rise of the Republic unit cards, it's nothing like the Empire Divided unit cards.

[Alwyn]

(Sorry for reviving an old thread). I found the answer. To recruit Highland Archers as the Insubres in the Rise of the Republic, the building chain is Communal Grounds > Horn Maker > Trumpet Maker > Carynx Maker. You need the Carynx Maker building and to research the Gauls United tech.