Guards and Border expansion

[JeanDeaux]

I'm very confused here on this mechanic relationship.

I had started the map (1st trade mission) with 20 "guards" and they would move all the boundary stones outward. I've improved/created an additional 30 or so "soldiers". I remove the guard requirements from my guard towers and replaced them with the soldiers.

The guards are now simply gone, perhaps they've upgraded to soldiers?

My biggest headache is that there is no more land expansion/claiming going on, my borders are now static and after several hours of waiting for the something to happen, there's just zilch. Is expansion performed by guards only? Something else the issue here?

I do have plenty of border stones in inventory, in fact the inventory is full and the stone industry is idle.

[Ceoran]

Sounds more like a bug than intended mechanic. I was able to reassign them to other towers when withdrawing 5

As for Expansion: make sure you have enough of those Border Stones (Made Out of regular Stones)

[galadon3]

1. Guards and Veteran Guards are the only ones that expand borders, the others type don't do that.
2. You can build a military camp as a kind of "storage" for military units. I did that and filled them up before pushing into areas with multiple enemy camps, so I could refill the border garison I sent there to fight quickly.

[JeanDeaux]

Thanks, putting guards back in the towers started the expansion again. Shouldn't guards be guarding? This was hardly intuitive, but at least I'm back on track.

[Ceoran]

Originally posted by JeanDeaux:

Thanks, putting guards back in the towers started the expansion again. Shouldn't guards be guarding? This was hardly intuitive, but at least I'm back on track.

Putting them Back in by making new ones or did you find the lost ones again?

[galadon3]

Yea was confused on the military units myself and some other stuff, theres a pinned FAQ here in the forums that helps alot clearing some of that stuff up.
Guess most will be ingame later but right now its still EA and at least the FAQ was written by someone who has an idea of how to put together a manual, I have seen some way worse EA games in that regard.^^

[JeanDeaux]

Originally posted by Ceoran:

Putting them Back in by making new ones or did you find the lost ones again?

I just made new guards, I've accounted for the fact I may have lost track of them with other guard towers I built.

[Timm (EE)]

Could be a bug or they moved into another possible location (milit. camp, tower or garrison).