[1.09n][Bug] Designed units cannot be trained.

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As the topic says, units I design do not show up in a city's list of trainable units. This happens on my PC (running Windows XP 32-bit) and my laptop (running Windows 7 64-bit), both using fresh installs of Elemental. Doesn't seem to matter how I acquired the city, designed units simply do not show up to be trained. The auto-designed ones do, though.

Save game link: http://www.zshare.net/download/82942761ad78cc60/

Sorry about it being zSHARE, Mediafire wouldn't let me upload for some reason.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I have the same problem, but with archers (shortbow) only, so far.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Yep same issue here.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I was told already that this is not a bug (but a really bad design decision). Apparently you can design these units using weapons like Bows but you cannot train them until you build specific buildings that you need to research in addition to bow research :(

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

SD needs to fix the tech Preqs so the shortbow and longbow can only be researched after the fortifications/archery/range stuff is "discovered". That would help reduce the confusion of being able to design units you can't build.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Are you guys able to train squads? I can't.  I have to train units one at a time even after i research the proper upgrades.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Have heard that it doesn't work at all for kingdoms. Is that true or can I research the line and enjoy?
I have the requisite archery-tech but can't build ranges (from master archers trait. What a surprise...). Is researching the rest of the prerequisites enough or do I need advanced archery on top of it?
Not that its a big impedement thanks to the new awesome power of longbows and even shortbows+heroes.
Who needs a paid army then? (Works better than ever...)
But still not the most fun thing to be barred from building huge armies of archers / horse archers to see the wildlife suffer and dump the soon to be millions of gildar into something fancy for large-scale testing. :D ;)

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

To build squads you have to build command centers (after getting the tech for them).

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

How about you can have saved custom units that you can load in any game, but ones that are the wrong race or that you don't have the right tech for are listed in red text in the Design Unit list with the text why you can't build them.  Only units you have the pre-reqs for would show up in a town Train dialog.

What do you think?

Best regards,
Steven.