User Guide

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As we will see in the chapter on the Military,
your armies are composed of regiments that are
recruited from your provinces. The type of reg-
iment you can recruit
in any specific prov-
ince is determined
by the preferred unit
type of any country
that considers that
province to be a core
province. You will
only be able to re-
cruit new regiments
of your own pre-
ferred unit type in
provinces that your
country considers to
be cores. You may
also be able to recruit
a different type of
regiment if you own
a province that is considered a core of another
realm, and whatever unit type is currently pre-
ferred by that country will be the type of regi-
ment available for you to recruit there. A prov-
ince that is considered a core by no one will be
unable to recruit any military units at all. The
same is true when building ships in any of your
coastal provinces. You will only be able to or-
der construction of a ship if at least one coun-
try considers it a core province, and the type of
ships available will be only the preferred types
currently set by those realms.
At the end of each line is a summary of the
total number of regiments or ships of this cate-
gory that are currently serving in your military.
In the adjacent graphic, you will see that our
preferred infantry regiment is the “Latin Medi-
eval Infantry” and that we have a total of five
infantry regiments currently serving our coun-
try, but this does not mean that all five of those
regiments are Latin Medieval Infantry. We
might have only three regiments of that type,
and two infantry regiments of a different type.
Changing Your Preferred
Regiment Type
As you advance to higher levels in land technol-
ogy, your regiments
will gradually be-
come more effective
in combat. Occa-
sionally, a new level
of advancement will
also “unlock” new
and more powerful
types of regiment
in one of the three
land unit categories.
You will be notified
when this happens,
and may wish to
consider adopting
this advanced unit as
your preferred regi-
ment type.
To change your country’s preferred regi-
ment type, click on the category to display a
list of all of the unit types currently available.
The combat characteristics of each are shown
to allow you to easily compare their capabilities
(we’ll describe what they mean in the chapter
on the Military). Simply click on the label for
the unit that you would now like to set as your
country’s preferred unit type, and any future
recruiting that you do in your core provinces
will now be for this type of unit. This includes
any recruitment that is already in progress.
Once you have adopted a new preferred reg-
iment type, all regiments of the old preferred
type that are currently in the field will also be
upgraded immediately at no cost; however, this
is an extremely disruptive process that makes
them utterly ineffective in combat until they
have had an opportunity to acclimatise them-
selves to their new weaponry. This is reflected
in the game by setting their morale level to 0,
so you should not do this at any time that you
currently have units involved in combat. The