cool_guy
Knight
how about giving all specific troops a discipline skill?
1-10 in discipline.
for example, and undisciplined troop (less than five in discipline) would sometimes charge without your orders, if the enemy is close enough. an undisciplined troop would not fall into formation very well (would be two steps ahead or behind everyone, skill less than 7), and they would seldom not even follow your orders until you give it again (skill less than 3).
a guy with a discipline skill of 0 would be a nightmare. the less the skill, the more the above would occur.
what you have to do is work on your army somehow. maybe conduct marches/drills with them to raise their discipline. it would make a lot better use of the Trainer skill. the higher your trainer skill, the more effective your drills and marches are. when you get to 10 with all your soldiers, your troops will be rigid and on guard. the formations would be perfectly straight, and your commands would be followed.
for the player, the discipline skill is useless for obvious reasons.
this would add a lot of variety to the armies, like a king's army would be all 10's, and a lord's 6-8. bandit armies would have all 0's, and maybe vary it based on faction. nords for example would not be very disciplined, because the nordic invaders didn't follow formation tactics anyhow, so their formations would be messy, and a few dudes would randomly go running out of formation as you advance. if you're playing as nords, though, you can get them disciplined.
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1-10 in discipline.
for example, and undisciplined troop (less than five in discipline) would sometimes charge without your orders, if the enemy is close enough. an undisciplined troop would not fall into formation very well (would be two steps ahead or behind everyone, skill less than 7), and they would seldom not even follow your orders until you give it again (skill less than 3).
a guy with a discipline skill of 0 would be a nightmare. the less the skill, the more the above would occur.
what you have to do is work on your army somehow. maybe conduct marches/drills with them to raise their discipline. it would make a lot better use of the Trainer skill. the higher your trainer skill, the more effective your drills and marches are. when you get to 10 with all your soldiers, your troops will be rigid and on guard. the formations would be perfectly straight, and your commands would be followed.
for the player, the discipline skill is useless for obvious reasons.
this would add a lot of variety to the armies, like a king's army would be all 10's, and a lord's 6-8. bandit armies would have all 0's, and maybe vary it based on faction. nords for example would not be very disciplined, because the nordic invaders didn't follow formation tactics anyhow, so their formations would be messy, and a few dudes would randomly go running out of formation as you advance. if you're playing as nords, though, you can get them disciplined.
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