Unit recruitment | Cities Heroes VII Guide

Units that are part of your army are the key to victory in almost every game. Below you will find a description of each way to increase the numbers of your military forces. You must pay a specific amount of gold for each unit. In special circumstances you must also pay in resources. The stronger the creature you want to hire, the more it will cost you.

New units are recruited mostly in the cities. By constructing a specific building you gain access to few or slightly more than a dozen of units of selected type. The dwelling can be also upgraded, this will give you a "better versions" of the same units. Of course, the price you must pay will increase as well. There are also few optional buildings that increase the weekly growth of units available as well. Sadly, usually these buildings exclude each other and you are forced to select which units you are interested in more. The number of units available to recruit "regenerates" at the start of each week.

Very often, a neutral army that wants to join you becomes a great empowerment.

You can also add new units to your army in dwellings that are available in basic and elite version, different for each of six factions. Similarly as in the cities, they "regenerate" at the start of each week and you must pay for them a specific number of resources. If you don't want to go to the dwelling at the start of each week, you can order an automatic transfer of creatures to one of your cities. In order to do it you must build a Marketplace.

The third option that allows you to obtain new units is adding the neutral armies to your forces directly from the main map. Some of them are friendly towards you from the start and they will gladly join you. This happens mostly during campaign. Other armies can join you, but it depends on a random factor. You can increase your chances by developing the Diplomacy tree of your hero. Some armies will join you for free, others will require you to pay a fee. In case of stronger creatures it might be even few dozen thousands of gold.

When traveling through the game world, notice the buildings that allow you to reinforce your army.

The last way to obtain new units is visiting the special buildings scattered through the world map. Each week, you can add a specific number of units there, for example Elementals in case of Elemental Conflux. This option is especially effective at the start of the game, when you don't have a well developed faction army and your hero have free slots for units.