How to garrison a city without general?

[JiMMy]

am i missing something?

[JiMMy]

maybe there is a way around it! not sure yet!

[A Disappointed Horse]

Hopefully, otherwise it's going to be one difficult game.

[F2K | J.Persson]

引用自 Necrojax：

引用自 Brutus™：

this sucks man! in any TW game you could have a garrison!

I really don't know what CA were thinking...

They were thinking that it ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks to be forced to leave a fraction of your force behind just to garrison a newly occupied town, when there can just be a fixed garrison in each town which, by the way, can get upgraded and improved over time.

[JiMMy]

引用自 Necrojax：

Hopefully, otherwise it's going to be one difficult game.

it is difficult! i tried on hard with parthia and got my ass handed to me and switched back to normal

[Kalvix]

I'm not sure what I think of the new army system.. I sort of like that people are limited in armies as it was a bit silly have armies with no general running off by themself taking stuff, but it is a bit annoying not being able to have a proper garrison early on, though later on I guess you get a rather large garrison (in my iceni campaign I've got sword warbands in a few of my towns so its already getting a bit more reliable than the farmer scum

[Langkard]

引用自 Brutus™：

so what is the best way to maintain public order before moving my army out ?

When you move your main army out, raise a general for the town and have him recruit some troops. I haven't tried any factions but the Suebi yet, so I can't speak for other factions. I started with 2 generals and a spy, with a couple of other generals available to recruit. When I took my first town, I left my main army there for a turn then moved it out and recruited a new general and some units. Then I moved him into the town on the next turn. Since two of the available generals were "Statesman", I used one for my newly conquered Celtic population town.

Food is going to be a problem when you first expand. So make your initial construction go toward food producing buildings. Taking just one town outside your province can get you into the negatives. Lack of food will cause your captured provinces to revolt quickly. Your very first building, as a barbarian, should be a food production.

[JiMMy]

引用自 Langkard：

引用自 Brutus™：

so what is the best way to maintain public order before moving my army out ?

When you move your main army out, raise a general for the town and have him recruit some troops. I haven't tried any factions but the Suebi yet, so I can't speak for other factions. I started with 2 generals and a spy, with a couple of other generals available. When I took my first town, I left my main army there for a turn then moved it out and recruited a new general and some units. Then I moved him into the town on the next turn. Since two of the available generals were "Statesman", I used one for my newly conquered Celtic population town.

this is not an option with limited number of generals

[Lower G.I.]

引用自 Langkard：

引用自 Brutus™：

so what is the best way to maintain public order before moving my army out ?

When you move your main army out, raise a general for the town and have him recruit some troops. I haven't tried any factions but the Suebi yet, so I can't speak for other factions. I started with 2 generals and a spy, with a couple of other generals available. When I took my first town, I left my main army there for a turn then moved it out and recruited a new general and some units. Then I moved him into the town on the next turn. Since two of the available generals were "Statesman", I used one for my newly conquered Celtic population town.

This. I'm using most of my generals, especially those of opposing families (playing Rome) at home to garrison regions. I use them for local threats. Combined with the garrison of any settlement, they're a pretty potent force, and they maintain order. Plus, if anything goes to hell, (it hasn't yet, I'm starting on normal), it will be a lot easier to raise a decent army by using a garrison force as a "starter".

[Langkard]

You don't have a choice. I suspect it is meant to force you to expand slowly, instead of zerging all over the map. You have a couple of extra generals at the start. Use them to take two enemy towns. Then build up non-military production until your initial conquests stabilize. You can't just take a town, garrison it, move on the next turn and take another town ad infinitum.

[Lower G.I.]

引用自 Brutus™：

引用自 Langkard：

When you move your main army out, raise a general for the town and have him recruit some troops. I haven't tried any factions but the Suebi yet, so I can't speak for other factions. I started with 2 generals and a spy, with a couple of other generals available. When I took my first town, I left my main army there for a turn then moved it out and recruited a new general and some units. Then I moved him into the town on the next turn. Since two of the available generals were "Statesman", I used one for my newly conquered Celtic population town.

this is not an option with limited number of generals

Sorry, this popped up after I posted.

You get more generals with more territories. I've had enough generals to keep one or two at home. Again, playing Rome, so it may be different with other factions.

[JiMMy]

playing parthia atm! on hard only stacks of mounted units coming from every direction

[jonclef]

How to change the "stance" of your army so you can move them?

引用自 Necrojax：

引用自 Brutus™：

this sucks man! in any TW game you could have a garrison!

I really don't know what CA were thinking...

[JiMMy]

引用自 jonclef：

How to change the "stance" of your army so you can move them?

引用自 Necrojax：

I really don't know what CA were thinking...

lol good question! haven't tried this one yet!

[Kalvix]

引用自 Langkard：

You don't have a choice. I suspect it is meant to force you to expand slowly, instead of zerging all over the map. You have a couple of extra generals at the start. Use them to take two enemy towns. Then build up non-military production until your initial conquests stabilize. You can't just take a town, garrison it, move on the next turn and take another town ad infinitum.

Well you can if you are in the right place, I've taken almost all of Britain early on as its a island but aye if you are in the mainland you need to be carful. And honestly its pretty cool that they did this as it means people need to play at a more normal realistic pace. The romans didn't take 1 city then instantly move on conquering the entire world in a week

[ChopSuey™]

It also limits what you can do in the way of conquering. You can't build your own armies to protect against invasions or rebels when dissent goes. Not a fan of having to have this massive army just doing the conquering and everyone else has to sit at home.