Failing memory

I've forgotten whether or not Colleges (which can produce 2,000 trained specialists) can also (if not doing anything else) perform research (or is that just Academies?). I could root around trying to look it up, but it's easier to ask those who have the facts at their fingertips... (I do wish there was a comprehensive Index of all the rules and supplements!)

Boarding Schools and Training Colleges can only train up to 2000 recruits at the same time. Not able to do anything else including research.

Academies needed for research purposes. £50,000 each to set up.

Training colleges page 3 of Carte Blanche, also cannot give advice.

My understanding is that you can either have:

a) An academy which can do R & D or teach up to a 1,000 students

or

b) A specialist training school which can train up to 2,000 students but can not do research and development.

Think that generally option a) is of more use but you might want to consider a specialist training school for say Priests since with possible exception of improved missionary techniques R & D into religion would seem like a outbreak of trouble waiting to happen.

Or if you are France, Spain or Russia and need to train lots and lots of farmers to get the Norfolk system introduced as quickly as possible.

And slight variants

c) Specialist academies which have greater chance of success when researching in their specialised areas.

d) Academies that receive foreign missions to learn the technology imparted by said mission.

Thanks everyone! I thought that must be the answer, and am now trying to work out why I set up a college and then only used it to process 1,000 (rather than 2,000) recruits. I fear the brain is really going soft (or my typing fingers have a life of their own). Neither is good.

The Revenant wrote:Thanks everyone!  I thought that must be the answer, and am now trying to work out why I set up a college and then only used it to process 1,000 (rather than 2,000) recruits.  I fear the brain is really going soft (or my typing fingers have a life of their own).  Neither is good.

You probably got mixed up with an academy. They can only train 1,000. Only a training college can train 2,000.

Hope this may help with looking for some of the articles, maybe if any of you have time you can expand on the List & add to it. Not done all the Supplements either. Just hope it Can be used as a start point for others. Then between us we have a list to work from.


Defoe's Illuminations:
p.3: Rat Catchers
p.8: Stud farm Training
p.9: Guard Dogs
p.9: Arsenals
p.11: Infantry Classification
p.17: Building options (such as Harems and Shrines)
p.18: Tobacco
p.18: Cork
P.19: Rinderpest
P.20: Stud farm Selective Breeding
p.21: Farm Tools
p.21: Timber (types and uses and values)
p.22: Water wells
p.25: Mining matters
p.26: Mining Improvements
p.27: Trade matters
p.29: Slave Work gangs

The Gentleman's Handbook:
p.2: Gold or Silver Bullion
p.4: Slave Markets
p.4: Seed Grain
p.5: Fresh Water Supply & Aqueducts
p.14: Last Will & Testament
p.15: Addressing Other Rulers

Carte Blanche:
p.15: Animal Husbandry Academy

Book of Revelations:
p.2: (military) Drilling
p.3: (military) Shields
p.4: (military) Patrolling Roads
p.6: Converting Tribal Infantry to Regulars
p.7: Fort Stockade
p.7: Wooden Fortress
p.7: Sluice Gates for Flooding a Fortress Ditch
p.10: The Trouble with Road Repairs
p.14: Settlers
p.15: Covered Market
p.15: Medical Care
p.16: Buffalo
p.17: Catastrophic Crop Failure
p.18: Flax Crops
p.19: Legume Seeds
p.20: Potash

Advice for Princes:
p.2: Night Soil Men
p.2: (military) Pack Animals
p.4: Loss of Prospecting Party
P.7 (military) Troops on High Alert, and Guarding Prisoners
p.27: Estate Revenues and Estate Revenues - Increasing Income
p.29: Caravanasaries
P.29: Surplus Grain as Animal Feed
p.32: Tropical Hardwood
p.34: Religious men for the army & for the population
p.41: Southern African tribe - San
p.42: Southern African tribe - Khoikhoin

If anyone wants to add to this list please do I think it will be useful to Old & New players alike.

Might it be worth starting a separate and suitably labelled thread for this, a potential "sticky", for continuous enlargement??? Just a thought.

The Revenant wrote:Might it be worth starting a separate and suitably labelled thread for this, a potential "sticky", for continuous enlargement???  Just a thought.

Agreed and also wondering whether it would be more user friendly as an alphabetical list of topics with reference to books and page number?

Okay will put a new Topic on the Forum If one of you clever Computer chaps can then do something with it Or i someone want to add Other supplements then as a group project it is possible something positive comes out of it.