Disclaimer: Got this while playing around in the console copying pops to my planet to see how slavery worked, haven't tried this out in an actual game.
As far as I can see, Battle Thralls do not get any bonuses to combat beyond other races (including other slaves). Checking out the recruitment screen their stats are identical to armies belonging to free pops, as are armies of any other types of slaves that have Soldiers Only policy active (Why should livestock be able to fight, anyway? That makes little sense).
Also strange, when hovering over battle thrall pops their Slavery type is shown as both Battle Thralls and Livestock
They get the correct resource penalties though.
EDIT: The armies seem to be working as designed. Built a battle thrall army and a regular army and the former turned out to be stronger than the latter. However, the recruitment screen info is wrong, not taking Battle Thrall modifiers into account.
As far as I can see, Battle Thralls do not get any bonuses to combat beyond other races (including other slaves). Checking out the recruitment screen their stats are identical to armies belonging to free pops, as are armies of any other types of slaves that have Soldiers Only policy active (Why should livestock be able to fight, anyway? That makes little sense).
Also strange, when hovering over battle thrall pops their Slavery type is shown as both Battle Thralls and Livestock
They get the correct resource penalties though.
EDIT: The armies seem to be working as designed. Built a battle thrall army and a regular army and the former turned out to be stronger than the latter. However, the recruitment screen info is wrong, not taking Battle Thrall modifiers into account.
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