Faction Member Management

[Kyniklos]

I never played as Rome before, but a good way to give family members battle experience (and keeping your provinces free of bandits and devastation at the same time) is the following steps:

1- Study your frontiers and find the choke points (river crossings, roads, etc)

2- Train a lot of regional, cheap, garbage tier units (like archers or levy spears) to act as watchmen and send them to those points, only one batallion at each.

3- This will be really usefull because other factions wont be able to march in your land anymore and you will reduce enemy devastation drastically (If you ever play as Kimmerios Bosphoros you will know how anoying it is to see how the stupid sarmatians walk throgh your land every single turn and use your roads as their own, while giving you -2000 devastation income each turn)

4- Grab a bunch of useless family members and spread them equally, each one of them having in range 3-4 batallions (giving one extra cav to each general helps, if you are willing to afford it.) Use them at first to build watchtowers along the perimeter to increase awareness.

5- If a bandit party shows up, rally some units along with your closest general, and kill them in the same turn they appeared (before they cause devastation)

6- Now, what you need. A lot of times, since they are alone and far away from the city, this cheap batallions will desert. Chances are 3 out of 5 turns, one unit deserts. This isnt really bad, since replacing them is quite cheap. But you bring your closest general, and with the other cav unit you provided, you surround them and since they are rabble, they will rout easily. Easy battle, easy experience for your general.

In short time, you will have many "veterans" who the only thing they did was runnin over some starved archers. Cheers!