Companions and quality of troops

[DVeL]

Can I force my companions to hire high quality troops?

I have millions of faction cash, all my cities are upgraded and have not only their special troops, but also spetsnaz, trained marksmen etc.

Yet all my companions continue to spam full stacks of "male villagers" and "militia" and so on.

Any workaround?

[bunny de fluff]

You can, by manually Giving those better troops to them manually.

[bunny de fluff]

I like to repeat myself not that you cared.

[oxbullseye]

It feels like you have to manipulate the system a little bit to get them those troops. Plus, the money doesn't come out of the faction when you give them the troops manually.

If you have a companion already out in the wild with a full army, the only thing I can do is to pull them back to my army so they give up all of their soldiers, then give them the units I want them to have manually. It seems there's a limit on how many troops you can take from them which is why I do it that way. Once I've built up a good force of level 15 and well equipped troops I'll usually send them to a companion and then re-build my army, rinse and repeat.

[Urmel]

1) a companion needs exactly 1 second to hire more than 100 soldiers.

2) after that i let him counquer a town. i take him and all his soldiers from town-garrison into my squads and heal all in the hospital.

3) now i let the town free of any defence-garrision and some random enemy invade the town.

repeat...

you can attack a town with different companions at the same time. if you use that system with 3 ore 10 companions you can get extremly fast many soldiers.

maybe that are not the best soldiers but that huge amount of soldiers overhelm every enemy.

[DVeL]

My main question is "Why do I have to do it manually if companions have all required resourses to do it themselves".

[Urmel]

nobody would run from town to town just to recruit 1 or 2 good elite units for a companion general. this "manually recruiting" is a waste of time.

im more disappointet that im not able to recruit over 100 soldiers in 1 second like all my companions. even simple militia-units are limited ca 10-20 in every town.

[Melamori]

Soldiers which can recruit depends on amount of the faction money

[DVeL]

Originally posted by evamelamori:

Soldiers which can recruit depends on amount of the faction money

I have tens of millions of faction money, but my companions still hire militia

[baddoggs]

Originally posted by DVeL:

Originally posted by evamelamori:

Soldiers which can recruit depends on amount of the faction money

I have tens of millions of faction money, but my companions still hire militia

What stats does your companion have. If i remember correctly they can change the
quality and quantitiy of the troops they hire.

[DVeL]

Originally posted by baddoggs:

Originally posted by DVeL:

I have tens of millions of faction money, but my companions still hire militia

What stats does your companion have. If i remember correctly they can change the
quality and quantitiy of the troops they hire.

Leadership & tactics are at 10,
Financial & city are at around 5,
medical & marching are low (1-3)

In my observations, this skills are irrelevant. All companions generally hire one and the same types of troops - militia one.