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3.4: Training men

Nobles may be accompanied by different kinds of men. Men may be peasants obtained with the recruit order, or peasants who have been trained into other kinds of men such as sailors, soldiers or workers.

The different kinds of men:

The peasant is the basis of all these types of men. Starting with a peasant, a noble with the proper skills can slowly train him to be any one of these types of men. The possibilities are shown in this chart:

        +--- sailor ------- pirate
       +---- worker              +--- ninja
      /                         +---- fanatic
     /                         +----- lt. xbowman
    /                         +------ hvy. xbowman
   /                         /
peasant --- skirmisher --- soldier --- lt. foot --- hvy. foot
                             \
                              +--- cavalier
                               +--- pikeman
                                +--- archer
                                      \
                                       +--- horse archer
                                        +--- elite archer

hvy. foot --- knight--- paladin

Training a man may require that the noble have a certain skill, or possess some item. For instance, training soldiers into light foot requires a longsword [74] for each footsman produced. The training noble must also know Swordplay [9580].

Some men may only be trained in certain kinds of locations. For example, pirates may only be trained on board a ship.

Training takes one day per man. Training five archers into five elite archers would take five days, for example.

num  kind            skill  input man       input item        where
---  -----------     -----  --------------  ----------------  ------
 11  worker           none  peasant [10]
 12  soldier          9598  skirmisher [36]
 13  archer           9579  soldier [12]    longbow [72]
 14  knight           9612  hvy. foot [37]  warmount [53]
 15  paladin          9613  knight [14]                       guild
 16  pikeman           121  soldier [12]    pike [75]
 19  sailor           9502  peasant [10]
 20  lt. foot         9580  soldier [12]    longsword [74]
 21  lt. xbowman       121  soldier [12]    lt. crossbow [85]
 22  elite archer     9579  archer [13]     elvish arrow [39]
 24  pirate           9580  sailor [19]     longsword [74]    ship
 28  fanatic          9428  soldier [12]
 29  ninja            9432  soldier [12]
 37  hvy. foot        9599  lt. foot [20]   plate armor [73]
 36  skirmisher	       121  peasant [10]
 38  hvy. xbowman      121  soldier [12]    hvy. crossbow [40]
 41  horse archer     9612  archer [13]     riding horse [52]
 43  cavalier	      9612  soldier [12]    mithril [82], warmount[53]

For order for more information and examples, see train.

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