My army guys won't train

[wolfpost]

They where training up fine until I went on my first mission. I won the mission but had a few casualties. over the next few weeks I added about a doze army guys and gave the swords. i have about 10 practice dummies. But my new troops never train and stay at level 2. only the vets train on the dummies.

[Marcondy]

You need as many training dummies as the number of soldiers you have. The levelling up of soldiers is only when they go on missions and earn xp. Send out your newbies at level 2 to get them promoted.

[sortulf]

Troops train until they are fully trained, after that they need combat xp - leveling is done only by combat.
Typically only recruits and those that have been injured need training.

[wcbarney]

Originally posted by Marcondy:

You need as many training dummies as the number of soldiers you have. ...

That seems a little excessive; I typically have 30 soldiers but only about 10-12 training dummies, and everyone gets trained just fine. I did find a bailiff that provides a 15% increase in soldier training efficiency.

[wolfpost]

I may have misspoke before. By leveling up what I mean is the other soldiers before said partially trained fully trained exc. Before ever going on a mission. Since that first mission they never advance past the first rank. Novice i think. Where before just by them staying there doing nothing they got trained. Even sending them out to fight non of them that I could see went past level 2 or gained the other type of experience. As far as the training dummy thing. I am pretty sure but not positive I had more than 10 shoulders before and they all trained.

[sandzoo]

Early on I had 10 soldiers armed with swords. I had 4 training dummies and was willing to wait. When shown as "trained" I picked an "easy" mission and made sure my "success" was "extreme". Then watched on each "success" level to be sure the next was "extreme" before allowing to continue. By doing so I was able to get experience for my troops and with awards of "spears" traded out the spears for swords giving the soldier more "power". Again I was patient in allowing my wounded to "heal". After level 6 I began to get the opportunity to "promote" at end of month to "soldier". I think I wait longer than most in this game for things to happen, thus 900+ hrs. Hope that might help.

[wolfpost]

Hmm, you guys are not getting what I am saying. Thanks for the suggestion but I have done all of them. They are just not training from the begginer rank to partially trained to fully trained like they did BEFORE I went on any battles.

[wcbarney]

Originally posted by wolfpost:

Hmm, you guys are not getting what I am saying. Thanks for the suggestion but I have done all of them. They are just not training from the begginer rank to partially trained to fully trained like they did BEFORE I went on any battles.

I *think* I get what you are saying; my only advice is to have more training dummies. I have about 10 dummies for 30 soldiers, which seems like enough. Make sure the training dummies are accessible to your soldiers -- i.e., right outside the front door or some such.

[Mr. Wiggles]

Ehy guys, I have lots of swords but my soldiers arent using them, do i need to do something or...?

[wcbarney]

Originally posted by Mr.Wiggles:

Ehy guys, I have lots of swords but my soldiers arent using them, do i need to do something or...?

Click on a soldier, there's a little box just to his right which you can click to arm the soldier with a sword or spear.

[Mr. Wiggles]

Originally posted by wcbarney:

Originally posted by Mr.Wiggles:

Ehy guys, I have lots of swords but my soldiers arent using them, do i need to do something or...?

Click on a soldier, there's a little box just to his right which you can click to arm the soldier with a sword or spear.

Thank you
Wait a minute, spears exist?

[wcbarney]

Originally posted by Mr.Wiggles:

... Wait a minute, spears exist?

Yep! You've just gotta earn them. Take on a challenge of "Difficult," complete all three parts and you'll bring back some spears which are 2 1/2 times stronger than swords. Make sure you send at least 10 fully armed and trained novices on this first campaign. A fully trained level-1 novice has a strength of 4 when armed with a sword, and a strength of 10 when armed with a spear.

[Mr. Wiggles]

Originally posted by wcbarney:

Originally posted by Mr.Wiggles:

... Wait a minute, spears exist?

Yep! You've just gotta earn them. Take on a challenge of "Difficult," complete all three parts and you'll bring back some spears which are 2 1/2 times stronger than swords. Make sure you send at least fully armed and trained novices on this first campaign. A fully trained level-1 novice has a strength of 4 when armed with a sword, and a strength of 10 when armed with a spear.

Muchas gracias señor

[wolfpost]

I have about 10 training dummies but way more than 30 soldiers. Maybe 50 or 60. I would say 30 or so are not training. Yeah I know, i made way too many. LOL. What I did notice is that I have 3 towers and each soldier seems to be connected to one tower. And I think the training dummies are the same. So I think what is happening is only the soldiers linked to the ONE tower that builr the training dummies are being trained.This is still my first city and was just plopping things down to see how they worked. I really thought I would have started over at least once by now but I love how my city is turning out. So i made a stone wall and just build 3 towers in the middle of it. Each tower only seems to hold about 20 soldiers so I am wondering if the other two towers are not training their troops because the training dummies where all build for one tower? I tried deleting one of the towers once and it crashed the game. thats when I noticed each tower had it's own troops. I will check that the next time I play.

Thanks for all the help. I wasn't trying to sound snarky before. Was just frustrated I wasn't explaining what was happening correctly

[quirkygeekgirl]

You need to have training facilities in each tower that you assign your troops to or they do nothing. Giving them swords before their mission will give them a fighting chance that they will return.
Don't send your soldiers on an extremely difficult mission until they are at least level 5 soldier, they just die but when they do finally succeed they can be promoted to Knights and wear red tunics.
The unique reward on the ex dif missions are the blueprints you can send to the study room for new buildings, I wouldn't send less than 10 soldiers/knights combined on those missions or they just lose in the last leg of the extended mission but the rewards are pretty good once you get them strong enough to win.

[Graygan]

Originally posted by wolfpost:

I have about 10 training dummies but way more than 30 soldiers. Maybe 50 or 60. I would say 30 or so are not training. Yeah I know, i made way too many. LOL. What I did notice is that I have 3 towers and each soldier seems to be connected to one tower. And I think the training dummies are the same. So I think what is happening is only the soldiers linked to the ONE tower that builr the training dummies are being trained.This is still my first city and was just plopping things down to see how they worked. I really thought I would have started over at least once by now but I love how my city is turning out. So i made a stone wall and just build 3 towers in the middle of it. Each tower only seems to hold about 20 soldiers so I am wondering if the other two towers are not training their troops because the training dummies where all build for one tower? I tried deleting one of the towers once and it crashed the game. thats when I noticed each tower had it's own troops. I will check that the next time I play.

Thanks for all the help. I wasn't trying to sound snarky before. Was just frustrated I wasn't explaining what was happening correctly

Soldiers are most definitely linked to the individual keeps/forts/towers/whatever you want to call them.

You get 10 troops per keep. You also can have 1 troop for each treasury room in your Manor.

You need to build training dummies at each separate keep in order to have the troops at that keep train.

If you have 3 separate keeps and only build dummies at one of them, 2/3 of your troops will not train.