new/more perks for joining and ranking in a faction

[allthesedamnnamesaretaken]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before as I've been away for a while, but two of the things about M&B that I find tedious are 1) training crappy units into better ones and 2) traveling from town to town trying to find that one piece of quality equipment you want. So I thought, why not add these abilities to the perks you get for earning a high rank with a faction?

The higher rank you are in a faction, the better troops you should be able to recruit. When you have or are near the highest rank, you should be able to recruit all units in their taverns.

The same should be done for equipment. The higher rank you are, the better the chance should be that you can find (and find better quality) weapons and armor that specific faction favors. For example, if you're ranked high with the Swadians who like to equip their riders with the bucket-like helmets (sorry forgot its name), their armor smiths should have a higher chance of selling those helmets. The higher ranked you are, the better chance that those items will also appear in a high quality. This would help you to appear in the same dress as your hirelings for that faction and not have to spend days mindlessly wandering from town to town just to buy a good piece of equipment.

What do you guys think?

 

[Alec{zacool}]

Yeah, and maybe some elite unlockable units that you can get when you are the highest rank.

 

[Guan_Chung]

That sounds like a good idea. Did you have The Last Days system in mind or something else?

 

[Lt. of the tower]

Elite unlockable units, sounds like a plan, that i like.

 

[allthesedamnnamesaretaken]

That sounds like a good idea. Did you have The Last Days system in mind or something else?

never played it so I'm not sure what you mean. All I want is to be able to recruit better faction units as I gain rank with them. Instead of how in native now you must recruit militia/peasants and train them up to whatever unit you want, I want to be able to simply recruit all the knights I want (for enough denars of course)

 

[Hallequin]

What about not being able to lead troops that are of higher rank than you are? To me it would make no sense that a knight would hapilly serve a recruit. That, as well as elite units/npcs that join you on high ranks would be pretty cool.

 

[Lt. of the tower]

i think, possibly going up to a high rank could get u special relics or cool faction only weapons n armour gifted to u for your service by Counts or the king himself. Weapons wudn't be "magical" but just look cool n have good damage, armour could just look cool possible festooned with symbols n jewels.
                         
                        Just a thought but..... people please add n give ur opinions on this.

 

[dPB]

How about getting a unique/elite horse? I like my horsies...well...running people down on a horse so the faster and hardier the better.

Wait, this gives me a "brilliant" idea! How about jewels on your horses armour! PIMP YOUR HORSE.

Back to seriousness, I really liked the Last Days idea of trading in "influence points" that you get per week with your pay as well as earned through battles for heroes/items/troops

 

[Archonsod]

Sounds like something I'm trying to implement in Warhammer mod.

 

[GaGrin]

I entirely endorse this idea.

 

[The_Invincible_Knight]

This is a great idea, I support it 1000%!!!