It would be a good way of limiting the use of vast armies, it would be unthinkable for a nation to have like, 200 field armies, commanded by men mostly fresh on the scene. If command of vast armies was limited or curbed in some way to allow only field marshalls or commanders the leadership, and in order for their army to funcytion properly it would be proper for certain units leaders to make up the rest of the officer structure, indeed the general should have a staff and a not a unit attatched to him.

It would make things a lot better and harder for a player, making battles that much more dangerous, in the period they were avoided by most commanders at all costs, not just because of the large casualties inflicted, but the possibility that one's officers would be wiped out.

It would be better because it would introduced much needed role-play into TW, which I must admit has become as a hollow a tube. Would it not be excellent if one could raise a lowly ensign up the ranks through decades of brutal warfare, finally to have them made Field Marshall.

Then, if the political framework works properly, having this war hero made first minister or some such