Quote Originally Posted by MonkeyMan
True but given you cant train reaplacement members to put these units back up to full strength (I seem to remember), this means the decent units eventually end up with only 10-20 members in (i'm playing on huge units), hardly an effective unit regardless of experience. I think if you check the unit stats in the game, the experience bonuses are added to their stats on the unit info sheet. So two units with the same equipment but different experience, have different stats stated (i think). Even with this my post marius units were superior to my best vets. Maybe if the marius event happened 80 years later then i'd have a few gold experience level units i'd think of saving for something special. Chances are they'd be disbanded all the same though.
Yes but when the reforms took place I saved a good number of my experienced Republican legionary units to avoid that situation. The most experienced units are always at full strengh since they're drawing from the ranks of second most experienced unit after them and so and so forth. To avoid drastic bloodletting I usually keep these units as a reserve in battle or on guard duty in a province with a lesser enemy.

I just think it's a waste to simply disband such experienced troops.