What the hell in an outpost?

[Karina]

Saw a unit of dwarfs in a Kislev army in one video. Asked in the comments about it - got replied with "from the outpost" and nothing more, as if this a widely know feature. You can recruit other factions units in game3? How does it work? Is there a limit to this? Which factions can you recruit from? Can you recruit heroes?

[Kapika96]

You can build outposts in any of your allies settlements.

You can recruit their units from that settlement (I believe only up to tier 3) and can have a max of 4 allied units per army.

[Karina]

Originally posted by Kapika96:

You can build outposts in any of your allies settlements.

You can recruit their units from that settlement (I believe only up to tier 3) and can have a max of 4 allied units per army.

Does settlement i build outpost in has to have their recruitment building?

[Kapika96]

Originally posted by Esteban Failsmore:

Originally posted by Kapika96:

You can build outposts in any of your allies settlements.

You can recruit their units from that settlement (I believe only up to tier 3) and can have a max of 4 allied units per army.

Does settlement i build outpost in has to have their recruitment building?

I believe so, yes.

[Darklordnj]

Originally posted by Kapika96:

You can build outposts in any of your allies settlements.

You can recruit their units from that settlement (I believe only up to tier 3) and can have a max of 4 allied units per army.

There's no tier limit, supposedly, it's just limited to what that city/town is able to produce (with the exception of heroes, you can't recruit allied faction heroes), so you can recruit T5 units if the settlement has them available.

[Karina]

Originally posted by Darklordnj:

Originally posted by Kapika96:

You can build outposts in any of your allies settlements.

You can recruit their units from that settlement (I believe only up to tier 3) and can have a max of 4 allied units per army.

There's no tier limit, supposedly, it's just limited to what that city/town is able to produce (with the exception of heroes, you can't recruit allied faction heroes), so you can recruit T5 units if the settlement has them available.

Hippogryphs in a dwarf army.

[The Warmongering Khan]

It's a way to try and make allies worth having. That being said you're probably still better off not having them and avoiding being dragged into pointless wars.

[leandrombraz]

Originally posted by The Warmongering Khan:

It's a way to try and make allies worth having. That being said you're probably still better off not having them and avoiding being dragged into pointless wars.

You can avoid that if you choose your allies carefully. Don't ally with a faction that is likely to get into a war you don't want to be a part of.

[Darth Alpharius]

They are Allied Auxiliaries it allows you to build Outpost in Allied, Vassal's Provincial Capitals which in turn allows you to recruit their Rosters as long as they have the Buildings to recruit them.

[Karina]

Best feature by far. Dont care about overpowered demons, give me dwarfs riding carnasaurs!

[NixAhmose]

Outposts are a special 1-3 tier building that can be built at any ally settlement so long as another one of their allies haven't built an outpost there already.

Outposts mainly provide two benefits:
1) They add units from your faction to that settlement's garrison, with higher outpost tiers providing stronger defenders. While not directly beneficial for you, it will help keep your allies alive for longer and will be an absolute godsend for Empire's campaign when ME2 comes out.
2) You'll gain the ability to recruit any local recruitable unit from that settlement, with higher tier outposts upgrading the ability to allow you to recruit from that faction's global recruitment pool. This will let you be able to play with units from other races and potentially cover any weak spots in your army(like melee specialist Khorne armies recruiting ranged specialist Tzeentch units and vice versa).

[Shortylax]

every day i learn something new

[Mr Robert House]

what if you lose the ally? do you keep their troops?

[The Warmongering Khan]

Originally posted by leandrombraz:

Originally posted by The Warmongering Khan:

It's a way to try and make allies worth having. That being said you're probably still better off not having them and avoiding being dragged into pointless wars.

You can avoid that if you choose your allies carefully. Don't ally with a faction that is likely to get into a war you don't want to be a part of.

The AI is perfectly happy to declare war with nations on other side of the world at random. So every ally is likely to get you into pointless wars.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by Mr Robert House:

what if you lose the ally? do you keep their troops?

While i do not know for certain. I would assume that you keep any troops already recruited but can't recruit any more.

[leandrombraz]

Originally posted by The Warmongering Khan:

The AI is perfectly happy to declare war with nations on other side of the world at random. So every ally is likely to get you into pointless wars.

It isn't random, and if you take the time to see what is going on with diplomacy, most conflicts are quite predictable, mostly in a game where rivalries between races and factions are well established, and represented in diplomacy through modifiers. I make alliances in all my campaigns, mainly because asking the AI to attack a common enemy is more useful than people give it credit, and I'm rarely surprised when one of my allies get into a war.

Not to mention I wouldn't be playing a game called Total War if I wanted peace. Bring it on!