Just thought it would be good to have a place to talk this over, as the Devs haven't exactly been open about how this works.
Levy Size
My understanding is that the Levy size of a Region is determined by:
(# Pops of an Integrated Culture, excluding slaves) * (Levy Size Multiplier)
If someone has a counterexample for this, can you please show it?
Levy Composition
This one is really confusing me. In the game itself, tooltips suggest that Nobles/Citizens will contribute to certain Unit Types called "Advanced", namely: Chariots, Elephants, Heavy Cavalry or Heavy Infantry; while Freemen/Tribesmen will contribute to "Basic" units: Archers, Light Infantry, Light Cavalry, Camels and Horse Archers. The game files also appear to have lines referencing these distinctions. However, when messing around with these values for Governorships witha a single Integrated Culture, it's become pretty clear that the classes have no bearing on the composition of units, only the Levy Template. Setting the Levy Templates to include the Basic/Advanced tags appear to just default to the respective Infantry units for each, though I haven't been rigorous with that check.
More worrying for me is that, as best as I can tell, the Levy composition in each Region is determined by a single Levy Template of a dominant culture there, even if that Culture isn't integrated. So while the size only accounts for Integrated Pops, if your integrated Pops become a minority in your Region, your templates can be taken over by a completely foreign, unintegrated culture. I believe this is what confused quite a few of us when watching the Bosporan stream; it's also observable when playing as the Seleukids - at game start the template for Ariana appears to be the generic Iranian, even through none of those cultures are Integrated; you can contrast this to the Levy from Persis, where the Persian culture dominates, with its own Levy Template.
Am I losing my mind, or has anyone had a better handle on how it works yet? I get that we've only had our hands on it for less than a day, so I'm not expecting too much yet - I've only gone deep-diving so soon myself because I'd been waiting to hear about it for some time.
Levy Size
My understanding is that the Levy size of a Region is determined by:
(# Pops of an Integrated Culture, excluding slaves) * (Levy Size Multiplier)
If someone has a counterexample for this, can you please show it?
Levy Composition
This one is really confusing me. In the game itself, tooltips suggest that Nobles/Citizens will contribute to certain Unit Types called "Advanced", namely: Chariots, Elephants, Heavy Cavalry or Heavy Infantry; while Freemen/Tribesmen will contribute to "Basic" units: Archers, Light Infantry, Light Cavalry, Camels and Horse Archers. The game files also appear to have lines referencing these distinctions. However, when messing around with these values for Governorships witha a single Integrated Culture, it's become pretty clear that the classes have no bearing on the composition of units, only the Levy Template. Setting the Levy Templates to include the Basic/Advanced tags appear to just default to the respective Infantry units for each, though I haven't been rigorous with that check.
More worrying for me is that, as best as I can tell, the Levy composition in each Region is determined by a single Levy Template of a dominant culture there, even if that Culture isn't integrated. So while the size only accounts for Integrated Pops, if your integrated Pops become a minority in your Region, your templates can be taken over by a completely foreign, unintegrated culture. I believe this is what confused quite a few of us when watching the Bosporan stream; it's also observable when playing as the Seleukids - at game start the template for Ariana appears to be the generic Iranian, even through none of those cultures are Integrated; you can contrast this to the Levy from Persis, where the Persian culture dominates, with its own Levy Template.
Am I losing my mind, or has anyone had a better handle on how it works yet? I get that we've only had our hands on it for less than a day, so I'm not expecting too much yet - I've only gone deep-diving so soon myself because I'd been waiting to hear about it for some time.
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