Militia Questions

Currently, as I understand how city militia work, there is a double standard being presented.

- Player's city militia will only defend the first attack of a given turn. Subsequent attacks in the same turn will not have city militia present.

- AI's city militia will defend every attack in every turn and will be at 100% force and health each combat, even if you've killed off or damaged some units in a previous attack on the same turn.

I'm HOPNG that this is balanced out one day...

- City militia for both players and AI alike should have there mortality status and health tracked over the course of a turn. Upon the new turn, the status is reset.

I'm also hoping that the details of my unique defenders mod is merged into the game....but that's another matter.

Yes, I think it's bad to have such a blatant double standard with this.  Just track the mortality and health on the same turn for the same city, maybe include GFireflyE's unique defenders, and call it a day.

So I wasn't hallucinating or not paying attention. How very annoying. What the point of having militia in higher difficulty levels, since you get slammed by the AI repeatedly on the same city. I would think a better system would be to have the player able to create units, but designate them as city defenders. They can never leave the city, but don't cost gildar to maintain, and you can get better units as defenders rather than being stuck with the same militia units and bowmen the whole game. While the militia units DO eventually upgrade their blunt weapons for free with the appropriate techs, the bowmen never seem to progress beyond crude bows, or at least they never have for me?

I haven't even noticed if the archers never progress but it wouldn't surprise me - city combat is borked all round. I believe it should be the main focus of a patch to improve it. I don't believe the 'double standard' is intentional, either, rather a [bad] bug. I do know for certain the militia armor never improves which, IMO, is ridiculous - even in the late game when actual units are wearing plate armor and aegis robes, the militia still(!) has armor 0 and doesn't even wear leather, even though they do use the most advanced weapons (so massive attack ratings on the militia but 0 defense).

Linked are my suggestions on how the militia should work - basically, I want them to gradually get stronger as the game progresses, same as other units: https://forums.elementalgame.com/449068

Good point on population reduction due to losses.

Is there any way this could be modded into the game?

Not that I'm aware of.

I've asked that question to the modding community before...