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how to move citizens from one town to another
By CLOWN
this is a quick guide to show you how to move citizens from one settlement to another in the campaign mode. this is good for when you have cities that are overpopulated or town that are underpopulated or both.
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Category: Gameplay Basics
Languages: English
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26 Jun, 2013 @ 6:01pm
26 Jun, 2013 @ 6:02pm
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how to do it
all you have to do is go to the town you want to take the citizens from and form a number of peasant squads depending on how many you want to move. you then move the peasants like a military unit to whatever town you want. once you get there disband the peasant squads and however many units there were in each squad will go into the towns population. if you have any questions feel free to post them in the comments.
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gagusto 17 Feb @ 2:41pm 
I hadn't think of it, so thanks!
Ave!
Rana 14 Apr, 2023 @ 9:54pm 
To reduce the pop rate, you can just adjust the Building data and delete some of the pop growth bonuses or design a new building such as I did called "Suburb_1-6', which is active when hitting Huge City level, it has 6 levels and reduces pop rate.
Grimlich 14 Jan, 2023 @ 1:06am 
console open
add_pop Arretium-4000 enter
add_pop Segesta4000 enter

Devise house rule on how much it costs to relocate 1 citizen
console : add_money negative number

... or sell your citizens into slavery...
(ARG) Ruda Macho 16 Oct, 2022 @ 6:54pm 
no wonder new total war games are so streamlined and dumbed down.

folk's lack of imagination and creativity as well as curiosity in order to explore the game systems and push when they push back and viceversa, and, obviously being so used to dumbed down and streamlined "new" games makes you need everything spoonfed like when you were a baby and your parents did the whole "plane" thing on you :steambored::steamfacepalm:

ps: no need to reach the town, disbanding in the province will do the trick. also works with regular units, mercs, etc. but obviously peasants are the best since they're one of the largest units, particularly on huge size.

anyway... good job on figuring it out i guess...
007jc 15 Sep, 2022 @ 4:26pm 
Wow! That is really helpful! Thank you so much!!!
:steamhappy::steamhappy::steamthis::steamthumbsup::steamthumbsup::steamthumbsup:
Myfredo 18 Apr, 2022 @ 6:59pm 
oooh clever
Brazidas 9 Jan, 2022 @ 4:32pm 
Very nice to occupy your roster for yrs doing this. Not possible when in the frontier.
MANWHATADONGA 17 Jul, 2021 @ 4:59pm 
Boy some players are slow,i was doing this when it first come out.It's not rocket science me old china.
rocketman19 23 Feb, 2021 @ 5:57pm 
I tried this and for each peasant unit created, moved to another city and disbanded, you get about a 50% increase in population in the disbanding city. That is a helluva lot of shrinkage!
LetsGoBowling 4 Feb, 2021 @ 1:29pm 
Trouble is if I remember correctly, doesn't this cost 100 dinarii for each peasant unit?