Hi

Im doing a large-scale strategy game where you build cities and train armies from those cities (think toal war meets mega-lo-mania). I want a gameplay element like "army population" or "unit support" similar to those given from supply depots in starcraft or farms in warcraft. But i already have farms as a type of resource income. What would make sense?

I was thinking something like "barracks" each supporting 3 regiments of soldiers in the field, but barracks are very accociated with the actual creation of units in games (and i need that gameplay element as well since i need to train soldiers in some building in my cities).

Maybe cottages/houses to support units in the field? Could that make sence? What other ideas could you come up with?

Thanks!

how about farms producing the food needed to keep your units in fighting condition?

If you are a tad more cynic, make it more realistic, and have farms on the map ready to be raided. You cannot raid a farm too often (else the farmer will just pack his stuff and leave), or maybe you can only raid it once (because medieval soldiers weren't known to be nice to farmers they raided, they often killed/raped the inhabitants of the farm).

Other than that, you can have castles/outposts as supply depots... besides guarding an important road or pass, and sometimes giving shelter in case of an attack, that is actually what most of them were built for. To support an army passing through with food and other supplies.

Not bad points, but i need them to be "buildings" or something similar INSIDE of the settlements (cities/castles). And preferable something than can be added several times to a settlement.

If it has to be a building, go with grain silos? or maybe warehouses? Or going the non food supply route: Armories? Or Smithies?

House?

I was thinking something like "barracks" each supporting 3 regiments of soldiers in the field, but barracks are very accociated with the actual creation of units in games (and i need that gameplay element as well since i need to train soldiers in some building in my cities).

Why not merge supply with creation?

Barracks might be associated with "creating units" in RTS:es, but barracks really just means a place where soldiers live and train.

And a barrack has a limited capacity of how many soldiers fit inside.

So... You build a barrack, that lets you create X soldiers. You create them at the barracks, but when the barracks is full, you need to build another barrack.