Quote Originally Posted by Satyr
I find that only being able to retrain 8 units a turn is rarely a concern. I merge my depleted units being careful to not completely use up the unit I am merging. If I do this wisely I often only have 1 or 2 of each type of unit to retrain. Add in the fact that my war dogs retrain themselves I am almost always ready to invade someone new two turns after my last battle.
Yes, that's exactly my point. Within a turn of having an army completely decimated, you can have it fully up to strength. So what's the incentive to take any care?

It's even worse when you are attacking/defending a city. You know that as long as you win, you've got a full strength army again. This completely destroys the concept of "attrition".

well think about it...if you've got gold level armor...are you going to give that up for worse gear? and maybe they have the concept of making gold armor, so they show the new guys how to do it....and how to do the +2 ranged attacks as well
Not sure what you are talking about. Armour, weapons and "veteran" status are all tracked individually in RTW. You don't lose anything by retraining, you just get some novice units as replacements. That's hardly a tragedy.

Bh