retraining??

I'm sure someone has mentioned this before but how do you "retrain" using the drill dojo? Can you do it with whole units? Does it "upgrade" equipment?

The manual is very vague about such things.

Since the drill dojo's benefit (improved rally and formation holding) cannot be measured i am unsure wether retraining a unit where there is a drill dojo actually works.

you can retrain whole units to take advantage of improved armour and swordsmith,
the unit does not need a matching dojo to do this,
any dojo in a province with armoury and/or swordsmith can pass these benefits onto any unit type. (a drill dojo does NOT need to be present for this)

beware, if the armoury has only a swordsmith and an armoury, and the unit has famous or legendary weapons, when you try to add the armour the unit will lose the weapons, and actually be downgraded to the swordsmith level of the province with the armoury - most annoying.
if the province has no swordsmith, simply an armoury, the unit keeps it's weapon level.

also, the unit MUST be in the province for a season before you add it to the retrain/build queue - the unit can disappear completely, or wind up back in the training queue of the last province where it spent a season, again annoying.

Province bonuses for units (+1 honour in Tosa for Ashigaru) can be passed on to a unit,
add an honour zero ashi unit to the retraining/build queue in tosa and it will gain the +1 honour.

I don't believe bonuses from famous or legendary dojo's or bonuses from palaces can be 'retrained' into a unit,
i am currently playing a campaign where i intend to test this.

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DoragonBarocca of Clan Doragon

You don't use the drill dojo for retraining, it merely gives the units produced in that province more upgrades. You just need the relevent dojo (Spear for YA, YS etc.) to retrain.

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Ok thank you. And just how is it done? Just click on the unit?

Mizilus follow these steps:
1.The unit to be retrained must be in the province for one season.
2.Click on the train troops parchment to bring up the training queue.
3.Click on the unit to be retrained on the strategy map.
4.Drag the unit icon from the bottom of the screen to the training queue box.Trying to drag the unit game piece from the map will not work.
5.Next season your unit will be retrained with any upgrades availiable and if the appropiate dojo is in that province,ie retraining YS with a spear dojo,the retrained unit will bring a depleted unit to full strength.Replacing warriors costs koku so remember to keep track.Upgrading armor or weapons for full units costs nothing.So during bad harvest years you can still upgrade your full units.

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