does this actually work RTR ? there is no mod conflict icon tho

Good Mod. Doesn't change the feel of the vanilla game and helps out other factions to deal with the romans in the early game.

Is it saved game compatible?

@MSTVD no I just added existing units from different rosters to the mercenary pools. Just naked fanatics, falxmen, and the buffed Greek cav. No custom models, and only the cav has stat changes. I had a better write up but got deleted, busy with finals rn.

There are entirely new units in this mod?

The recruit time could be something like 4-6 turns instead, maybe 4 for infantry and 6 for cavalry. Not outlandish, meaning youll get to recruit them if you want, but when you compare it to the 1 turn recruit time of most faction units, the ai wont go for it and mostly neither will the player. 1 mercenary vs 4 faction units in the same amount of time is no contest. However, it might allow undeveloped settlements to produce strong units right off the bat. Could also make the recruiting cost really high.

@ChrisM1A2 yeah I saw your mod, was cool to see that several of us came to different solutions to what we see as a problem

And yeah making it absurd to recruit could work, and while it would be very "gamey", I am sure many people wouldn't mind. Something to consider. I swear I thought I heard someone say before release that mercs would become retrainable in the remaster but it seems I was mistaken.

Being able to retrain mercenaries can be accomplished by adding them to building's recruit list and adding faction ownership for that unit, as my mod does, but this also makes mercenaries recruitable. As far as I've seen, there's no way to be able to retrain something without also being able to recruit it (though, could set the mercenary turn build time to something excessive, like 999 turns, so that you can retrain, but it's not feasible to recruit.)

https://discord.com/invite/fsy69Ky

@Javes I couldn't find one for RTW, only the general TW Modding discord. Do you know the name of it or have a link?

You can join the rome total war community discord group and ask for help. Tons of modders are there.

TQ

Unfortunately I have no idea how that could be done. I would like to be able to add that but I am not knowledgeable enough to do so

Can the mercenaries be retrained to full strength?