I'm really sorry if I'm missing something silly here. Hopefully I am, but I can't see it. Have tried a forum search but could find nothing relevant.
Currently playing Clodius in the Septimus Severus scenario. Since the scenario start, I've been unable to recruit mercenaries on the Imperator page.
The mercenaries have an EP cost and/or a financial cost. They also require you to hold a certain area to recruit.
Even fulfilling all of the two or three conditions does not seem to recruit the units.
eg. Batavian mercenaries. Require 15 EP and control of Novimagus. Have 37 EP, 100% control of Noviomagus, 100% loyalty in Noviomagus and two units within the castrum there. No EPs are removed the following turn, no mercenaries are received.
It's not a case of having already recruited the mercenaries to the maximum amount that year - I've never been able to recruit them, and the option disappears I believe when it is no longer available?
Is this a bug or am I missing something? Perhaps something which hasn't been made clear in the criteria to recruit these units? Thanks in advance.