Leadership

[ImperatorK]

Krun Thuul
This NPC has Leadership of 12. He's entitled to 8th 1st level followers. It is stated that he's got 2 orc berserkers, 2 orc shamans and 4 orc skolls. They're not 1st level, BUT they're CR 1.
Now, probably the PFSRD isn't exactly as official as the other PFRD, but it's still an interesting issue, because this NPC comes from an official adventure, if I understand correctly.
My question is this: Is this some kind of error or houserule, or does that indicate that Leadership follows some different rules and actually uses CR instead of levels?

[bigkilla]

ImperatorK wrote:

Krun Thuul

This NPC has Leadership of 12. He's entitled to 8th 1st level followers. It is stated that he's got 2 orc berserkers, 2 orc shamans and 4 orc skolls. They're not 1st level, BUT they're CR 1.
Now, probably the PFSRD isn't exactly as official as the other PFRD, but it's still an interesting issue, because this NPC comes from an official adventure, if I understand correctly.
My question is this: Is this some kind of error or houserule, or does that indicate that Leadership follows some different rules and actually uses CR instead of levels?

I was actually thinking of the same thing as I have heard of people getting things like dragons and other monsters without class levels as cohorts. I think CR would and should be just fine to use instead of actual level, as long as a cohort is 2 CR behind yours and your leveled followers are of that CR level it should be fine.

[Chubbs McGee]

From my understanding it is based on level and not CR.

EDIT: However, I also agree with Bigkilla!