Sentries and Mercenaries

[songqu88@gmail.com]

On the help page sentries are supposed to fight better in their own regions, move slower, and suffer morale drops when out of their regions. What exactly is this "better fighting"? I have definitely seen slower movement, but I have also not seen any significant drops in morale even when I once moved sentries hundreds of miles away from home.

What about mercenaries? I know they need more gold, and they supposedly deal better with being moved far from home. What about combat effectiveness?

[Sacha]

Sentries get a minor CS boost when defending their own regions, I believe.

[Foundation]

Mercenaries simply have less morale issues far away from home.  No other benefits.

[egamma]

Sentries get a minor CS boost when defending their own regions, I believe.

I think it's a 20% increase, but I'd have to test.

[Foundation]

I think it's a 20% increase, but I'd have to test.

Sentries get a 10% increase in CS at home.

[Sacha]

Is it solely for battles where they are the defenders, or do attacking sentries also get the bonus?

[Foundation]

Only defending.

[egamma]

Updated on the wiki, great.

[Foundation]

Updated on the wiki, great.

Yay!  Always good to have wiki be correct.

[songqu88@gmail.com]

Heroes can set units as Regular Army, Mercenaries, and Vanguard. I can understand why they can't have police units, but what prevents them from having sentries? Is it...unheroic to stand guard over something?

[Indirik]

Yeah, guard duty at the local garrison isn't very heroic.