Quote Originally Posted by Bhruic
It's when I march into enemy territory, lose 95% of my army taking a city, and have my army fully retrained immediately before the AI can do anything about it. Even if they attack me on their turn, my army is already retrained. So I can walk into any situation like that, and exploit it.

But it is not "immediately" it is 6 months of occupation later you have rebuilt your forces from the local populance as long as the province has sufficient population, you have sufficient funds and the army you are talking about is only 8 units...

How is it more "realistic" than in a conquered city of 10,000 (for example) you could only press gang 60 odd people to reinforce one of your units in 6 months??

If we want more "realisim" we should be moving the Strat Map to real time, rather than turn based, I don't know anyone who really wants that...

I am not arguing that the present system is particularly realistic, only that the old one was not any better...

Game play wise I don't see the issue, this function is just as available to the AI, and I don't come across understrength units anymore unless I am chasing down an army I have already attacked...