Quote Originally Posted by KillerKadugen
I hate crusades because after they are accomplished, I have to sift through all of the garbage that it picks up on the way to its destination. Nothing irks me more than seemingly having a huge force only to realize that practically half of it is peasants and the other half is a bunch of depleted units with no real combat ability.
Absolutely correct, I hate that too. That said, when the world gives you lemons and garbage army units, make lemonade. I send depleted units to larger province with sea access, somewhere in the middle of my shipping lane (less likely to get cut off) and I combine depleted units to get them to full strength. Trash units get used for garisson duty, "sacrificial lambs" when sieging instead of storming, placeholders for guarding provinces that are not in any serious threatened state but require numbers to ensure security, or when I really screw up and need warm bodies fast because I forgot about the mongol horde popping up re-emergances or whatever. I personally like poor quality troops for desert warfare and assaulting islands as they'll be trapped there when the port gets destroyed and I'd rather keep top tier units fighting than trapped on an island for 4 years waiting for a frigging port to be built/re-built. Trash is good when you recycle it. I recently started retraining trash units and using them in my main task forces. Even in late, hobilars, clansmen, and the slavic warriors (not sure if I got the name right, but the fast peasant type troops with the shields) are adequate for chasing a routing enemy off the field or soaking up arrows while my cav moves to flank.