Why cant I bribe people into join my armies?

[Catman]

I can bribe generals into my family and I can bribe people into deserting, but I cant get people to join my army.
Wassupwiththat?

[Jambie Lionheart]

Firstly, you need enough money, plus only units that are recruitable by your faction will actually join you, the rest just melt away. Hestati will join the romans, Hoplites would probably join the greeks and iberian infantry would join spain or carthage.

[Catman]

Thats silly.
Thank you for telling me, sir.

[komninosm]

Originally posted by OTDSqr_CtMurphy:

Firstly, you need enough money, plus only units that are recruitable by your faction will actually join you, the rest just melt away. Hestati will join the romans, Hoplites would probably join the greeks and iberian infantry would join spain or carthage.

Are you sure about that? Sounds lame, bah CA screwed up again. Why it makes no sense. We can already hire mercenaries anyway...

Also I remember hearing bribing was too cheap and then a later patch made it too expensive.

[Jambie Lionheart]

Aye, I've tried it quite a few times and it's the same pattern every time. Though it has been a very long time since I've attempted it. It's only really worth the money if their units join your faction or if you can get a good general out of it.

If you're the roman faction, try bribing a rebel army that consists of Warbands and other barbarian troops, you'll see for yourself that every time those units will never join your faction, if you bribe hestati units or roman valites, or roman styled peasants, they'll join you, but units from other factions won't and the rule isn't limited to only rebels. Though if you bribe a roman army then you'll get the whole lot >: ] You'll always get the generals if they are part of the army though. Though like I said, it's been a very long time so that might have changed.

[Delta 1038]

Originally posted by OTDSqr_CtMurphy:

Aye, I've tried it quite a few times and it's the same pattern every time. Though it has been a very long time since I've attempted it. It's only really worth the money if their units join your faction or if you can get a good general out of it.

If you're the roman faction, try bribing a rebel army that consists of Warbands and other barbarian troops, you'll see for yourself that every time those units will never join your faction, if you bribe hestati units or roman valites, or roman styled peasants, they'll join you, but units from other factions won't and the rule isn't limited to only rebels. Though if you bribe a roman army then you'll get the whole lot >: ] You'll always get the generals if they are part of the army though. Though like I said, it's been a very long time so that might have changed.

From a technical POV, it's just so that CA don't have to make pallete swaps for every unit in the game; like Romans units are pallete swaps for each other or Greeks can bribe Hoplite Militias and so on. And that's not even going with the balancing issues if you could do that.