Abington/Study of Recruitment Procedures

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Nobles of Abington I have recentaly returned home from the war front this was the status of my men after returning and paying them.

+V+ The Way of Valor =WBA=
Captain Aldric (+3)
Name Infantry
Strength 15 men
Training 49 %
Weapons/Armour 55% / 65%
Equipment Damage 86 %
Morale 46 %
Cohesion 56 %
Total Combat Strength 164
Designation army
Last paid today


This is what I spent of 5 new recruits Mind you there Weapons/Armor and training were not the same as the one returning with me.

You add 5 Mountaineers to your troops for 34 gold. You have 221 gold remaining in your purse.

This is what they looked like after the first 5 were purchased.


+V+ The Way of Valor =WBA=
Captain Aldric (+3)
Name Infantry
Strength 15 men
Training 49 %
Weapons/Armour 55% / 65%
Equipment Damage 86 %
Morale 46 %
Cohesion 56 %
Total Combat Strength 164
Designation army
Last paid today

+V+ The Way of Valor =WBA= Captain Aldric (+3) Type:...................Infantry Strength:...............20 men Training:...............56 %-------Training Increased by 7% Weapons/Armour:.........60% / 65% Equipment Damage:.......65 %-------Equipment Damage Decreased by 21% Morale:.................58 %-------Morale Increased by 12% Cohesion:...............47 %-------Cohesion Decreased by 11% Total Combat Strength:..217-Total Combat Strength Increased by 53 points Designation:............army Last paid:..............today

You add 5 Mountaineers to your troops for 34 gold. You have 187 gold remaining in your purse.

I failed to get this report before recruiting but here is what it looks like now to repair my men.

Your troops' equipment is 52% damaged. It will cost about 5 gold to fix 10% damage. Repairing all damage will cost 26 gold.

Repair 10% (5 gold, 1 hour) Repair 20% (10 gold, 3 hours) Repair 30% (15 gold, 4 hours) Repair 40% (20 gold, 6 hours) Repair 50% (25 gold, 7 hours) Repair all damage (26 gold, 7 hours)

As you can see it is quite expensive to repair the equipment as of now butthe damge being reduced by the recruitment process is helping that, or is it really?


You add 5 Mountaineers to your troops for 34 gold. You have 153 gold remaining in your purse.


After 5 more men the damage is going down quite a bit atualy.

+V+ The Way of Valor =WBA=
Captain Aldric (+3)
Name Infantry
Strength 15 men
Training 49 %
Weapons/Armour 55% / 65%
Equipment Damage 86 %
Morale 46 %
Cohesion 56 %
Total Combat Strength 164
Designation army
Last paid today

+V+ The Way of Valor =WBA= Captain Aldric (+3) Type:...................Infantry Strength:...............30 men Training:...............63 %-------Training Increased by 4% Weapons/Armour:.........66% / 65% Equipment Damage:.......44 %-------Equipment Damage Decreased by 21% Morale:.................70 %-------Morale Increased by 12% Cohesion:...............37 %-------Cohesion Decreased by 10% Total Combat Strength:..332-Total Combat Strength Increased by 115 points Designation:............army Last paid:..............today

But is it truly enough to make a difference?

You add 5 Mountaineers to your troops for 34 gold. You have 119 gold remaining in your purse.


Agin I stayed with 5 men and the damage to the unit still gets better, but not quite as well as the time before it seems the new armor is not quite enough at this rate compared to the number of men already in the unit.

+V+ The Way of Valor =WBA=
Captain Aldric (+3)
Name Infantry
Strength 15 men
Training 49 %
Weapons/Armour 55% / 65%
Equipment Damage 86 %
Morale 46 %
Cohesion 56 %
Total Combat Strength 164
Designation army
Last paid today

+V+ The Way of Valor =WBA= Captain Aldric (+3) Type:...................Infantry Strength:...............35 men Training:...............65 %-------Training Increased by 1% Weapons/Armour:.........68% / 65% Equipment Damage:.......38 %-------Equipment Damage Decreased by 6% Morale:.................73 %-------Morale Increased by 3% Cohesion:...............35 %-------Cohesion Decreased by 2% Total Combat Strength:..391-Total Combat Strength Increased by 59 points Designation:............army Last paid:..............today


I am getting concerned with the drastic drop in cohesion at this point so I will recruit the last 10 all at once. This experiment is starting to show me that it may have been better to recruit all new recruits at one time.


You add 10 Mountaineers to your troops for 68 gold. You have 51 gold remaining in your purse.


Now my fears are starting to be proven! It cost more hours now to do repairs than before and nearly about the same gold. Actually it was only 5 for the 10% last time.

Your troops' equipment is 30% damaged. It will cost about 8 gold to fix 10% damage. Repairing all damage will cost 24 gold.

Repair 10% (8 gold, 3 hours) Repair 20% (16 gold, 5 hours) Repair all damage (24 gold, 8 hours)

And my unit looks like this after wards.

+V+ The Way of Valor =WBA=
Captain Aldric (+3)
Name Infantry
Strength 15 men
Training 49 %
Weapons/Armour 55% / 65%
Equipment Damage 86 %
Morale 46 %
Cohesion 56 %
Total Combat Strength 164
Designation army
Last paid today

+V+ The Way of Valor =WBA= Captain Aldric (+3) Type:...................Infantry Strength:...............45 men Training:...............68 %-------Training Increased by 3% Weapons/Armour:.........71% / 65% Equipment Damage:.......30 %-------Equipment Damage Decreased by 8% Morale:.................78 %-------Morale Increased by 5% Cohesion:...............32 %-------Cohesion Decreased by 3% Total Combat Strength:..507-Total Combat Strength Increased by 109 points Designation:............army Last paid:..............today

So after all of this is done I still have 30 percent damage to my unit.

And it looks like I will be spending more hours than I would have if I had done repairs before recruiting. The only thing is how much am i saving the war chest and my self in the process?

24 gold, 12 from my pocket 12 from the war chest. A savings of 2 gold from my pockets and 2 from the war chest.

Instead of 7hours now its 8 hours I'm loosing 1 hour to repair less damage but that is because it is now spread over 45 men instead of 15!

I have lost a total of 24 percentile points in Cohesion with the new recruits. Time to do some training, speaking of training, this is pretty much a given since they are fresh to the unit and it will take time to get to know them.

I have managed to increase their training quite quickly though up by 19 percentile points. That would have taken a bit of time let say you were fortunate to get 2% every time you trained and 3% once you would have had to trained 8 times.

At 8 hrs a training secession that 64 hours saved! and 16gold saved 8 from your pockets and 8 from the war chest.

now lets look at the morale it increased 32 percentile points overall.

treat your men to some entertainment - you will pay 6 gold for drinks and other services, but morale will rise. (takes 2 hours)

pay for lots of entertainment - you will pay twice the money, but get a higher morale boost. The party will last all night (i.e. use up all your hours, minimum 4)

This is not so bad and will probably bring their morale up very quickly if you choose wisely. and you get half of the expenses back from your war chest! thanks Duke Mangus!

Now the best part Total Combat Strength Increased by a total of 343 points!

Do know how or what I have saved here in this section yet as it will need more thought and studies to fine point its areas of effect.

What I do know is that it helps Abington Kick the enemies ASS!

You repaired 30% damage for 24 gold. The work took 8 hours.


You get 12 gold of your expenses back from the Army of Valor war chest.

Your men drink and feast and morale rises by 3 points to 94 %. pub crawl.

that was 12 hours of time loss of a day and now cant travel. and didn't get back half of the money from the war chest! hummmmm.

Unit Status Report (46 minutes ago) Morale of your troops rises by 13 points.


Well it looks like entertainment is not a good thing unless your out of your realm borders just being in the realm gets your morale back up where it needs to be.