[WA] - Space Marine Sergeants increase squad cap?

[Spikeles]

Description:
Basically when you add a Sergeant the squad cap increases by two. Is this a bug or an un-intended feature? I checked the change logs and never saw any relevant information.

How to reproduce:
What happens is if you have 3 or 4 squads of marines with sergeants added, you reach 20 cap without having to research the final squad increase from the stronghold.

Example:
I've attached the replay as a .zip. At time indices 8:40 and 8:43, when the sergeants are added to the two marine squads, the cap goes up by 2 for each.

I'm using the very latest of all game versions(1.41)

(attachment removed as it's un-needed - UberJumper)

[CrossOrion]

Intended.(was in before 1.41 I think) It hasn't gone unnoticed for long. However if the sargents die, you lose the cap, and terminators cannot produce sarges. Remember that. (75/20 for each 2 pop, hefty price considering the HQ upgrade is 125)

[Spikeles]

Cool. Thanks for the quick reply. Me and my friends were playing one day and noticed it.. Thought it may have been a bug. :)

If intended. wish it was added to the WA patch change log.

[Mirage Knight]

SM Sergeants and CSM Aspiring Champions adding pop cap has been a feature since DoW was first released I believe.

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It should however be documented. And mentioned in the game.

[TBS]

Yes - this has been true since DoW 1.0 (and probably back in beta...but I cant remember that far back :p).

The same thing happens with chaos aspiring champions and Eldar Warlocks (in guardian squads). I guess it might be true for IG sergents as well, test it out and see.

[SNeakY_BuGGeR]

It is how I control my pop cap without spending a fortune early game on it. I never research pop caps in the HQ until I have reached tier three. sergeants are far more beneficial to have in your squads and boost morale and have better weapons and more hit points too. so why keep paying for more pop cap in the hq? when I want termies that is when I research it.