Officer's Patent

[Hunkie]

From battle_akademy.lua:
Peasant > Footman/Bowman/Priest/Pirate/Robber
Footman > Guardman/Witch-Hunter
Guardman > Knight/Horseman/Paladin
Priest > Inquisitor/Witch-Hunter
Archmage > Necromancer/Demonologist/Rune-Mage
Pirate > Sea-Dog/Ghost-Pirate
Dwarf > Cannoneer/Foreman
Orc > Veteran-Orc/Orc-Tracker
Veteran-Orc > Ogre/Ogre-Chieftain/Troll

I've also found this from the script:

Hero_unit_count_tc_new = math.floor ((tc_army_leadership_1*Hero_unit_count_tc_old)/tc_army_leadership_2)

I think it can be translated to simple English like this:
NewUnit_Number = Round-down ( OldUnit_Leadership * OldUnit_Count / NewUnit_Leadership )

Priest's Leadership = 50/each
Inquisitor's Leadership = 100/each
You have 20 Priests.
When upgrading to Inquisitor, you'll get 50 * 20 / 100 = 10 Inquisitors.

Footman's Leadership = 35/each
Guardman's Leadership = 50/each
You have 25 Footman.
When upgrading to Guardman, you'll get 35 * 25 / 50 = 17.5 = 17 Guardmen.

[onepiece]

Thanks. Now at least if you don't find the units you like, you have more possibilities to get them (since their predecessor is almost sure to come out)

[Saiko Kila]

There is a new questgiver, named Arian, who, after completing certain easy quest, will change people into demons. You need Officer's Patent for this, and trophies. He's different than usual conversions, because he converts in ratio 1:1. For example, 5 Runemages into 5 Archdemons, 40 Demonologists into 40 Executioners, or 40 Paladins into 40 Executioners or 20 Witchhunters into 20 Demons. That way you can get more leadership worth of troop than you had before (with executioners even much more) or less (as with Archdemons).

[onepiece]

Now the only thing needed is a better description of how this work in-game.

Seriously Kataury needs to put a little more effort so we don't have to do threads for things like this. (Or is there an in-game description I'm not aware of?)

[BB Shockwave]

Originally Posted by Saiko Kila

There is a new questgiver, named Arian, who, after completing certain easy quest, will change people into demons. You need Officer's Patent for this, and trophies. He's different than usual conversions, because he converts in ratio 1:1. For example, 5 Runemages into 5 Archdemons, 40 Demonologists into 40 Executioners, or 40 Paladins into 40 Executioners or 20 Witchhunters into 20 Demons. That way you can get more leadership worth of troop than you had before (with executioners even much more) or less (as with Archdemons).

Great, where can he be found?

Thanks for the info - I myself have run out of Swordsman to turn into Guardsman, so I'll be using the Peasant-Sworsman-Guardsman route.

Neat that you can turn Archmages into Demonologists, or Griffins into Royal Griffins, those units were usually very scarce.

The Demon idea is a great one for an early all-Demon army. I wish Lizardmen were also available earlier on, at least the Level 1-3 units. It wasn't until Shattera (Shetarra?) that I have first seen them in my first Walkthrough.

[Hunkie]

Arian can be found in Shettera. His house is north of Entrance to the Village. Though you should head to Hephaestus first to receive the quest "Deliver Arian's Order" before you can meet Arian.

[Swindley]

Just wanted to thank Hunkie for posting the upgrade list!
I've really wanted demonologists, but was unable to find any in either this game, or my previous one, so it's awesome info that I can upgrade them from arch mages! Will try this asap and have some fun with them + demons
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[Jah]

Originally Posted by Hunkie

Guardman > Knight/Horseman/Paladin

I've raised my trainable troop level to the maximum, but I still can't train guardsmen into anything. Is there something else you need to do in order to train them? Can someone confirm that guardsmen can indeed be trained?

And where, by the way, is this battle_akademy.lua file located? Can't find it anywhere...

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by Jah

I've raised my trainable troop level to the maximum, but I still can't train guardsmen into anything. Is there something else you need to do in order to train them? Can someone confirm that guardsmen can indeed be trained?

And where, by the way, is this battle_akademy.lua file located? Can't find it anywhere...

I've noticed that the Officer's Patent seems to change its name as you go to different academies. Maybe it is possible you can only do the better upgrades after you have visited the later academies or ONLY at the later academies.

[Jah]

Looks like it simply requires a boatload of trophies to train them. After reducing my guardsmen stack to about 30, I was able to train them into horsemen, which reduced my trophies by about 5000.