User Guide

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and is recruited in one of the provinces in your
realm, and each province is capable of recruit-
ing one new regiment at a time. The soldiers
that will form the regiment are drawn from
your country’s manpower pool which is shown
at the left end of the Top Bar. Each of your
provinces contributes a number of men to the
pool each month, and once you have at least
1000 men in your national pool, you will be
able to begin recruiting a new regiment.
You will begin by deciding where you would
like to recruit the regiment. You might select a
province that is near the location that you ex-
pect to need your future army or you might se-
lect it based on the type of regiments that can
be recruited there. This final consideration is
the one that is likely to play the largest role in
your decision.
As you may recall, when we looked at the
Domestic Military interface we stressed the
fact that the type of regiments that can be built
in a province are determined by the preferred
unit type of each country that considers that
province to be a core province. You will only
be able to recruit regiments of your country’s
preferred unit type in your own core provinces.
Any provinces you own that are not yet your
own core provinces will not be able to supply
this type of regiment.
If another country considers one of your
provinces to be one it cores, you will be able to
recruit that nation’s preferred unit type. In fact,
unless that province is also one of your cores,
the only type of regiments you will be able to
recruit will be the other country’s preferred
type. If no country considers a province a core, no
regiments can be built there at all!
Once you have decided on a suitable
province, click on it to display the
Province Management interface,
and then click the “recruit regiment” button
below the summary information. The recruit-
ment interface will replace the province sum-
mary information on the right side of the inter-
face. This displays a list of the regiments that
can be recruited in the province, as well as any
mercenary regiments that might be available
for hire (we’ll discuss mercenaries in a mo-
ment).
Beside the name of each regiment type is
a graphic representation of the unit’s primary
combat characteristics. For each combat cat-
egory (fire, shock and morale) there is an “of-
fensive” value displayed in the upper half of the
box, and a defensive value displayed in the low-
er half. If you hover your mouse pointer over a
star, you will see a tool tip showing the exact
value for the regiment. The way that these are
used is described in detail later in this chapter,