bender19
Warlord
I've found conscripts to be a great source of free troops, with a little training you get a great free army.
In my most recent game England declared war on me, a relative backward civilization who had been behind the entire game, consequently they were drowning under units support with a few hundred obsolete units, from archers to muskets. Meanwhile I was in the early modern age, so rather than waste precious tanks and other resources I collected up approximately 90 conscript mech infantry as well as artillery and naval support. I crossed the small seas between us and landed my invading party of abosulte rubbish and set about training them. On turn 2 i bombarded down the 1st city with its 70 or so obsolete units then followed up with attack from my conscripts. Every victorious conscript was promptly promoted to regular. Once I took the 1st city I dug in and awaited the inevitable counter attack, as hundreds of obsolete English hurled themselves in a futile manner against the city. On defense I generated 1 leader each turn and numerous elites and veterans, the next turn I'd rotate them out of the city to train new troops. 3 turns later the English counter attack subsided giving me 3 free armies and numerous elites and veteran. I then proceeded to send my mech infantry out to clean up the English with liberal use of artillery and bomber support. At the end of my campaign id lost 6 or 7 troops, and gained 20 or so regular, 40 or so veterans, 20 or elites and no conscripts as well as 3 armies and it cost me absolutely nothing.
Of course this all relies on the enemy having obsolete junk but whenever you see a pile of craptacular enemies units entering your territory dont just destroy them with the nearest available cavalry, or tank bring in the artillery bombard them down then train urself a free army. It also free up your offensive units for more important tasks.
In my most recent game England declared war on me, a relative backward civilization who had been behind the entire game, consequently they were drowning under units support with a few hundred obsolete units, from archers to muskets. Meanwhile I was in the early modern age, so rather than waste precious tanks and other resources I collected up approximately 90 conscript mech infantry as well as artillery and naval support. I crossed the small seas between us and landed my invading party of abosulte rubbish and set about training them. On turn 2 i bombarded down the 1st city with its 70 or so obsolete units then followed up with attack from my conscripts. Every victorious conscript was promptly promoted to regular. Once I took the 1st city I dug in and awaited the inevitable counter attack, as hundreds of obsolete English hurled themselves in a futile manner against the city. On defense I generated 1 leader each turn and numerous elites and veterans, the next turn I'd rotate them out of the city to train new troops. 3 turns later the English counter attack subsided giving me 3 free armies and numerous elites and veteran. I then proceeded to send my mech infantry out to clean up the English with liberal use of artillery and bomber support. At the end of my campaign id lost 6 or 7 troops, and gained 20 or so regular, 40 or so veterans, 20 or elites and no conscripts as well as 3 armies and it cost me absolutely nothing.
Of course this all relies on the enemy having obsolete junk but whenever you see a pile of craptacular enemies units entering your territory dont just destroy them with the nearest available cavalry, or tank bring in the artillery bombard them down then train urself a free army. It also free up your offensive units for more important tasks.
