same issue, they won't recruit as leader either... (might be fun to send a dragon with your army, +15 shock...)

Originally posted by Lord Butxot:

Hello there!

I've completed the dragons event chain and now I'm the proud owner of dragon eggs, so in theory I'm able to recruit dragon units (Or so says the event). How can I do that? I've seen nothing on the menus in order to recruit a dragon.

Thanks for your help!

Ok I managed to hatch them, it is a national decision. After hatching them you can exchange your cavalry by dragons - and maan are they fun!!!

First try I was shocked because my 200000 Manpower were instantly gone and like 100000 more were needed to refill my armies. I asked myself where the losses came from - the dragons took it. A dragon has a regiment size of 5000 and every cavalry unit will use 4000 manpower instantly.

On the second try I reduced the cavalry to 2 regiments per stack, it was like 15k infantry and 2 cavalry (dragons), it worked out very well. Having already founded Westeros as a country I started a war against some pirate states in Tyrosh. And it was a blast. The ai probably underestimated my armies completely, and attacked same sized while I had a way weaker commander. They got annihilated completely. On the first blow, 30'000 of them - vanished. A human would have learned, the ai didn't. I deliberately reduced army size, knowing the impact of the dragons and again and again the enemies got blasted.

Now I know why The Others had 13000 army size with 9 regiments, that bastard of a Night King fielded a dragon as well. With their superior generals (6/6/6) I could only contain those 13'000 with 80'000 men and and reasonable moving tactics, because the dragons are also insanely fast.

By the feature the joy to play came back, because after having united Westeros, I didn't feel like going to Essos, because in the meantime, Volantis, Mereen and Qarth grew to huge blobs and the Dothraki united themselves as well. It would have meant endless fighting, but with the dragons and a unified Westeros, I will plow straight to Asshai.

Thanks to the modders! great job!

(suggestions will be posted in the relevant post since this is only about dragons)

But how did you get the Dragon Eggs event in the first place ?
Is there a mandatory combination of nations/scenario/year ?

thanks !

I can't recall all correctly, but it was a chain of events in which you could spend money and power to search for a dragon egg, I was playing as Tyrosh or one of these nations in southwest Essos.

I have found the dragons and activated the event, haven't actually gotten them in the army yet. I found them as Myr after a ton of random events.

Originally posted by Blaac Thunda:

I have found the dragons and activated the event, haven't actually gotten them in the army yet. I found them as Myr after a ton of random events.

If you go to the units menu under Military and click on the Cavalry, it should be included in the outdated units.

Thank-you this was massively helpful. :-)

Speaking of dragon's, I managed to form New Valyria but never got the event "Dragon Eggs Discovered" that was supposed happen. Could someone share that particular event's ID so I could force-trigger it using the console?