What do ya mean I've maxed my retinues!?

[GustFire]

Greetings,

I'm playing as Chief Niall of Airgialla, now at a total of four provinces. I haven't been able to recruit any retinues in my wars for expansion. I've had to rely on levies only.

The message says, "You cannot create this retinue, your maximum retinue cap has been reached." But I have no retinues, it's at ZERO, how can I have reached the cap!!??

What am I missing here? Any help or advice here is greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

[StarSword]

http://www.ckiiwiki.com/Retinues

Your retinue cap is calculated using the following formula:

Retinue cap = (Rank * number of holdings in realm + any bonuses from buildings) * (1 + 1.5 * Military Organization technology)

As a chief, you're an independent count, so your rank is 2. And as a tribal, you likely have almost no milorg tech. And knowing Irish tribes, you have 8 holdings total (one tribe and one church per county). Also, as a tribal you're unlikely to be able to financially afford the upkeep on retinues. In my Ireland game it took me until after I had turned feudal and founded the kingdom before I was able to start recruiting retinues.

 

[9Zakarious6]

On the retinue screen, it also says what your retinue cap is to the left of where you buy the retinues in the format of X/Xk (so 0/0k for you OP).

 

[beartjah]

You can't build retinues until you are capable of doing so while staying under the cap. If your cap can't support a singly unit, you can't have any retinues.

 

[GustFire]

Many thanks for the replies, I get it now. [thumbs up]