First of all, this is my first post, so heya to everyone.

I've been play the Total War games since Shogun first came out, and I play M:TW quite often. I've finished many a campaign, and beaten the game using various factions.

Today, I came upon the phrase retraining ones units. This is something I guess I've completely overlooked I've done a bit of searching on the forums and didn't really find an explanation of what exactly it is. I usually just take my partial units and merge them together (unless of course one general has too many vices, but there are always exceptions). I often have a port provence designated as the stopping point for partial units. I'll send a unit of archers w/ 15 men there to away the day when there is another group of archers, and then I'll end up w/ a full unit. But this doesn't add armor, etc... to the unit, which retraining seems to do.

Anywayz, if someone could tell me exactly what retraining is, I'd be very appreciative.