diff --git a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/01_Slipping_Away.cfg b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/01_Slipping_Away.cfg
index 39d38bd80468..80ec3217fba3 100644
--- a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/01_Slipping_Away.cfg
+++ b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/01_Slipping_Away.cfg
@@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ With further observation, I have determined that this is probably not the way to
 
     [side]
         # wmllint: who SIDE_1_ARDONNA is Ardonna
-        {SIDE_1_ARDONNA_EARLY}
+        {SIDE_1_ARDONNA}
+        {ARDONNA_RECRUIT_1}
         facing=se
         {GOLD 15 5 0}
         fog=yes
diff --git a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/02_Dark_Business.cfg b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/02_Dark_Business.cfg
index 4fef83083461..229d9a54ad18 100644
--- a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/02_Dark_Business.cfg
+++ b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/02_Dark_Business.cfg
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ I decided to hide in the cemetery. That way I could try my experiment to animate
     {TURNS 18 18 18}
 
     [side]
-        {SIDE_1_ARDONNA_EARLY}
+        {SIDE_1_ARDONNA}
+        {ARDONNA_RECRUIT_1}
         {GOLD 50 40 30}
         facing=se
         # The scenario won't be shrouded, but some of the intro dialog is:
diff --git a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/03_Bandits.cfg b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/03_Bandits.cfg
index fc0f47d7b642..22e5419e317f 100644
--- a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/03_Bandits.cfg
+++ b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/03_Bandits.cfg
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ Even with the delay at the graveyard, I reached the outskirts of Llorvin at firs
     {TURNS 35 35 35}
 
     [side]
-        {SIDE_1_ARDONNA_EARLY}
+        {SIDE_1_ARDONNA}
+        {ARDONNA_RECRUIT_2}
         {GOLD 150 150 140}
     [/side]
 
diff --git a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/04_Becalmed.cfg b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/04_Becalmed.cfg
index afb3987ff934..bf2cc176e70b 100644
--- a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/04_Becalmed.cfg
+++ b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/04_Becalmed.cfg
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ The journey started well enough, but on the dawn following our departure, the wi
     {TURNS 14 15 16}
 
     [side]
-        {SIDE_1_ARDONNA_EARLY}
+        {SIDE_1_ARDONNA}
+        {ARDONNA_RECRUIT_3}
         # We are assuming substantial gold from the previous scenario:
         {GOLD 60 40 20}
         facing=ne
@@ -447,10 +448,7 @@ The journey started well enough, but on the dawn following our departure, the wi
             time=1000
         [/delay]
 
-        [allow_recruit]
-            side=1
-            type=Ghoul
-        [/allow_recruit]
+        # Ghoul added to side recruit this scenario
         [message]
             speaker=narrator
             image=portraits/undead/ghoul.png~SCALE(93, 93)
diff --git a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/05_Blackwater.cfg b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/05_Blackwater.cfg
index 338de43d667e..a9c6e06b0d9f 100644
--- a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/05_Blackwater.cfg
+++ b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/05_Blackwater.cfg
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ When the captain retained his memories, I reasoned that it may have been because
     {TURNS 28 28 28}
 
     [side]
-        {SIDE_1_ARDONNA_EARLY}
+        {SIDE_1_ARDONNA}
+        {ARDONNA_RECRUIT_3}
         {GOLD 270 230 200}
         income=6
         facing=se
diff --git a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/06_Following_the_Shadow.cfg b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/06_Following_the_Shadow.cfg
index 990bc98f427d..8ef125cda5f8 100644
--- a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/06_Following_the_Shadow.cfg
+++ b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/06_Following_the_Shadow.cfg
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ I was so sure I had the answer! I was wrong. I wanted to believe that I was imag
 
     [side]
         {SIDE_1_ARDONNA}
+        {ARDONNA_RECRUIT_3}
         {GOLD 200 175 150}
         shroud=yes
     [/side]
diff --git a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/07_Meeting_of_the_Minds.cfg b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/07_Meeting_of_the_Minds.cfg
index 1e6cf3fe87c9..1e7dd975adaf 100644
--- a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/07_Meeting_of_the_Minds.cfg
+++ b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/07_Meeting_of_the_Minds.cfg
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ The tunnel at the back of the cave narrowed and ran on for quite some time. Patc
 
     [side]
         {SIDE_1_ARDONNA}
+        {ARDONNA_RECRUIT_3}
         shroud=yes
         gold=0
     [/side]
diff --git a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/08_Carcyn.cfg b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/08_Carcyn.cfg
index 84c391ae69ed..fd9f6428aa41 100644
--- a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/08_Carcyn.cfg
+++ b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/08_Carcyn.cfg
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ After several days of travel, he approached the frontier town of Carcyn."
     [side]
         # wmllint: who SIDE_1_RAS-TABAHN is Ras-Tabahn
         {SIDE_1_RAS-TABAHN}
+        {RAS-TABAHN_RECRUIT_1}
         {GOLD 200 200 200}
     [/side]
 
@@ -436,8 +437,8 @@ After several days of travel, he approached the frontier town of Carcyn."
                     message= _ "You can now recruit dark adepts!"
                 [/message]
                 # This message is actually a lie. DA recruitment is not added
-                # until the end of the next scenario. We don't want the
-                # automatically-recruited DA's there to be able to recruit more.
+                # until the start of the scenario after the next one. We don't want the
+                # automatically-recruited DA's in the next scenario to be able to recruit more.
                 [clear_variable]
                     name=side_2_limited_recruits,side_2_limited_recruits_length
                 [/clear_variable]
diff --git a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/09_Training_Session.cfg b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/09_Training_Session.cfg
index 56295d273f30..df24254c5a6a 100644
--- a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/09_Training_Session.cfg
+++ b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/09_Training_Session.cfg
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 
     [side]
         {SIDE_1_RAS-TABAHN}
+        {RAS-TABAHN_RECRUIT_1}
         gold=0
     [/side]
 
@@ -291,13 +292,6 @@
                     [/have_unit]
                 [/not]
                 [then]
-                    # This allow_recruit didn't happen at the end of the previous
-                    # scenario so that DAs couldn't recruit each other in this one.
-                    [allow_recruit]
-                        side=1
-                        # This type of Dark Adept cannot advance to a lich.
-                        type=SotA Dark Adept
-                    [/allow_recruit]
                     # Gold was removed at the beginning, and is returned now.
                     [gold]
                         side=1
diff --git a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/10_Merfolk_Revenge.cfg b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/10_Merfolk_Revenge.cfg
index a5ae4bbf88c4..e6bead6803a7 100644
--- a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/10_Merfolk_Revenge.cfg
+++ b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/10_Merfolk_Revenge.cfg
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 
     [side]
         {SIDE_1_RAS-TABAHN}
+        {RAS-TABAHN_RECRUIT_2}
         {GOLD 150 130 110}
     [/side]
 
diff --git a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/11_Battleground.cfg b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/11_Battleground.cfg
index 84ba05beb297..aa19d2e7da38 100644
--- a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/11_Battleground.cfg
+++ b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/11_Battleground.cfg
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ Rastaban seems like an acceptable ally. He is quite different from the stodgy te
 
     [side]
         {SIDE_1_ARDONNA}
+        {ARDONNA_RECRUIT_3}
         gold=0
         # Gold is not set here because if Ardonna's gold is higher, it will replace
         # this value anyway (because of the original bonus rules). If we use zero,
@@ -176,11 +177,7 @@ Rastaban seems like an acceptable ally. He is quite different from the stodgy te
             image=portraits/undead/ghost.png~SCALE(93, 93)
             message= _ "You can now recruit ghosts!"
         [/message]
-
-        [allow_recruit]
-            side=1
-            type=Ghost
-        [/allow_recruit]
+        # Ghosts added to recruit start of next scenario
 
         # Find the nearest hex to (16,4) that doesn't have unit on it:
         {NEAREST_HEX 16 4 20 (
diff --git a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/12_Walking_Trees.cfg b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/12_Walking_Trees.cfg
index fa95880e4600..87c49cbf84ed 100644
--- a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/12_Walking_Trees.cfg
+++ b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/12_Walking_Trees.cfg
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ My primary objective was met, and I had been able to press a number of ghosts in
 
     [side]
         {SIDE_1_ARDONNA}
+        {ARDONNA_RECRUIT_4}
         {GOLD 200 190 180}
     [/side]
 
diff --git a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/13_Together_Again.cfg b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/13_Together_Again.cfg
index be12de0d9e0c..630804ae6d11 100644
--- a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/13_Together_Again.cfg
+++ b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/scenarios/13_Together_Again.cfg
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ I never would have been able to escape the trees without ghosts. They had proven
 
     [side]
         {SIDE_1_ARDONNA}
+        {ARDONNA_RECRUIT_4}
         gold=0
     [/side]
 
@@ -203,12 +204,8 @@ I never would have been able to escape the trees without ghosts. They had proven
             time=1000
         [/delay]
 
-        # Now that Ardonna is the leader again, we need to add DAs to her list, and
-        # maybe Chocobones too:
-        [allow_recruit]
-            side=1
-            type=SotA Dark Adept
-        [/allow_recruit]
+        # Now that Ardonna is the leader again, DA's are added to her list start of next scenario.
+        # Add Chocobones now if the bones were already found.
         [if]
             [variable]
                 name=bird_bones_found
diff --git a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/utils/sota-utils.cfg b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/utils/sota-utils.cfg
index 37f9fd952e46..8c6ee1fc3011 100644
--- a/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/utils/sota-utils.cfg
+++ b/data/campaigns/Secrets_of_the_Ancients/utils/sota-utils.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #textdomain wesnoth-sota
 
-#define SIDE_1_ARDONNA_BASE
+#define SIDE_1_ARDONNA
     side=1
     controller=human
     team_name=good
@@ -19,14 +19,20 @@
     {FLAG_VARIANT undead}
 #enddef
 
-#define SIDE_1_ARDONNA
-    {SIDE_1_ARDONNA_BASE}
+#define ARDONNA_RECRUIT_1
     recruit=Vampire Bat
 #enddef
 
-#define SIDE_1_ARDONNA_EARLY
-    {SIDE_1_ARDONNA_BASE}
-    recruit=Vampire Bat
+#define ARDONNA_RECRUIT_2
+    recruit=Vampire Bat,Skeleton,Skeleton Archer
+#enddef
+
+#define ARDONNA_RECRUIT_3
+    recruit=Vampire Bat,Skeleton,Skeleton Archer,Ghoul
+#enddef
+
+#define ARDONNA_RECRUIT_4
+    recruit=Vampire Bat,Skeleton,Skeleton Archer,Ghoul,Ghost
 #enddef
 
 #define SIDE_1_RAS-TABAHN
@@ -34,7 +40,7 @@
     controller=human
     team_name=good
     user_team_name= _ "Ras-Tabahn"
-     # This type of Dark Sorcerer advances to a Necromancer with a custom plague
+    # This type of Dark Sorcerer advances to a Necromancer with a custom plague
     # attack, and cannot advance to a Lich.
     type=SotA Dark Sorcerer
     id=Ras-Tabahn
@@ -44,10 +50,17 @@
         {TRAIT_STRONG}
         {TRAIT_INTELLIGENT}
     [/modifications]
-    recruit=SotA Walking Corpse_Dummy,Ghost,Skeleton,Skeleton Archer
     {FLAG_VARIANT undead}
 #enddef
 
+#define RAS-TABAHN_RECRUIT_1
+    recruit=SotA Walking Corpse_Dummy,Ghost,Skeleton,Skeleton Archer
+#enddef
+
+#define RAS-TABAHN_RECRUIT_2
+    recruit=SotA Walking Corpse_Dummy,Ghost,Skeleton,Skeleton Archer,SotA Dark Adept
+#enddef
+
 #define SIDE_1_BOTH
     side=1
     controller=human
@@ -66,7 +79,7 @@
         {TRAIT_RESILIENT}
     [/modifications]
     {FLAG_VARIANT undead}
-    recruit=SotA Walking Corpse_Dummy,Ghost,Skeleton,Skeleton Archer
+    recruit=SotA Walking Corpse_Dummy,Ghost,Skeleton,Skeleton Archer,SotA Dark Adept,Ghoul,Vampire Bat
 #enddef
 
 #define RECALL_LOYAL_UNITS