# BB5 Recruitment
**URL:** https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/bb5-recruitment/4190
**Category:** Game Feedback
**Created:** [September 7, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/bb5-recruitment/4190 "2019-09-07T15:38:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@NBK\_RedSpy](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/NBK_RedSpy)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/bb5-recruitment/4190/1 "2019-09-07T15:38:57Z")
Any tips on recruiting units for the current build? Maybe I’ve run into a bug or I’m doing it wrong?
I was able to go to a haven and recruit a soldier. After that, the recruit button doesn’t seem to do anything.
I can see multiple havens have a person to recruit on the map, I have the resources and I’ve tried emptying the aircraft before going to the haven to no avail. I’m stuck at 6 guys.
The button is yellow/orange, so not sure what is up here.
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### Author:  [@mrmonocle](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/mrmonocle)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/bb5-recruitment/4190/2 "2019-09-07T15:51:32Z")
Is your manticore full?
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### Author:  [@NBK\_RedSpy](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/NBK_RedSpy)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/bb5-recruitment/4190/3 "2019-09-07T16:08:50Z")
Nope, I emptied it out to test that theory.
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### Author:  [@NBK\_RedSpy](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/NBK_RedSpy)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/bb5-recruitment/4190/4 "2019-09-07T16:13:07Z")
I think it may have been a bug. I loaded up a previous save, made sure the aircraft was empty and it worked this time.
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### Author:  [@Vindex](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/Vindex)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/bb5-recruitment/4190/5 "2019-09-07T17:02:09Z")
Regarding units, the basic Assault seems by far the best. MC into Sniper with all of mine, but I could see a point in going heavy with 1 perhaps.
I only got the special unit from the Disciples of Anu, the Berserker and it’s a melee unit, pretty limited. Details here:
> [@Do we get melee options at some point?](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/do-we-get-melee-options-at-some-point/4180):
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> I’m not very far into the game (trying to avoid spoilers) but I’m wondering whether at some point we’ll get the option to build melee weapons and make use of shields? Melee, an axe or a spear seems like it would be a very good way to combat crabmen. And shields, given the number of them being dropped by those crabmen, seem like an obvious thing for a PP soldier to look at and think ‘hmm, that look like a good way to not get shot.’
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### Author:  [@SamXjones](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/u/SamXjones)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/bb5-recruitment/4190/6 "2019-09-08T15:43:23Z")
I encounter the same problem as you do, and i am stucked with 6 guys (without replacement) trying to save the whole world from alien…
Either the way of recruitment is bugged, or tool tip missing, or intended because it is still BB.