Household and skills recruiting

[Shoyo]

Can someone plz explain why household and skills dont work on recruitment?

Like pankration gloves +3xp to melee infantry recruits. When i go to recruitment they dont get +3, they still rank 0....

What is causing this?

[GFTDphoenix]

I too don't know why, but I can confirm that they don't work.

Also, enemies don't suffer losses from me besieging their port towns, even though I have a navy and an army besieging. (Although I might be missing something there.)

[GFTDphoenix]

No, I meant that the people being besieged were not taking casualties, not my armies which were laying siege.

[saintdenis]

In my experience the attrition for the defenders only kicks in after a few turns. I would say it took circa 8 turns before the little skull icon for attrition showed up. But then it was hitting them hard.

Oh and with regards to the experience problem: I noticed this as well, but I still don't know if the number (like +3) means actual unit ranks or just +3 experience per turn like the skill of the warrior agent who trains your armies.

[caps]

Originally posted by GFTDphoenix:

I too don't know why, but I can confirm that they don't work.

Also, enemies don't suffer losses from me besieging their port towns, even though I have a navy and an army besieging. (Although I might be missing something there.)

They actually do suffer attrition during a siege, it just doesn't show it on the campaign map(could be a bug or intended) but if go look at the attack screen to siege after awhile you can see enemy 'life' is down. And if you wait for the whole duration without attacking, the enemy force is defintely damaged with around 10 or so troops lefet when they sally before the siege ends.

[caps]

Originally posted by saintdenis:

In my experience the attrition for the defenders only kicks in after a few turns. I would say it took circa 8 turns before the little skull icon for attrition showed up. But then it was hitting them hard.

Oh and with regards to the experience problem: I noticed this as well, but I still don't know if the number (like +3) means actual unit ranks or just +3 experience per turn like the skill of the warrior agent who trains your armies.

I think the info needs to be clear since it's confusing, but I wouldn't be surprised it's for experience gained rather than rank as that would just be too OP if it was instant rank since you can already do that with buildings.

[saintdenis]

The confusing part is the different wording on the tooltip for the warrior agent skill ( unit exp per turn ) and the general skill (unit exp for recruits). I don't really think that it's supposed to be a rank bonus, you are right. But a one time exp bonus after recruiting the unit seems really underpowered.
And even a "per turn" bonus like for the warrior agent would be quite small (+3 from household/skill versus +30 or even +50 from the agent skill)