How much does retraining cost?

[EatYerGreens]

I normally don't retrain, unless I find my self short on money. I just make a new unit which I send to the front. That way it can be used to fill the loses to a number of the same units.

Good thinking!

I don't know why but it has only recently occurred to me to do it this way. Force of habit from the retraining usually involving run of the mill units - I send them home for retraining as there's generally a full-strength exact replacement on garrison duty in the province next door, so I just have to do position swaps until the damaged unit gets home.

It's a completely different matter when the unit I want to replenish is a general's Katank unit. The tech to retrain these at all is only available in one place but, at the same time, I can't afford to take a high-starred general off the front line and leave a 1,2,3 star substitute in charge for a few years. The unit merge trick means the freshly trained unit just has to do a tour of all the generals needing a top-up and, if anything's left, it can return to base to be topped up itself. Rinse and repeat.

I think if you retrain an upgraded unit at a province without the same upgrade opportunities they still have the same weapons and Armour upgrades as the original guys.

Are you sure? Maybe I last tried this in STW and did see the unit degraded. I'm pretty sure I haven't taken the same risk in MTW but I'm encouraged by hearing that this will work okay.

The upshot of the averageing business I referred to before is that retraining a unit whose casualties were less than 50%, I expect it to be shown as retaining its upgrade. OTOH, replenishment of losses over 50% and the retrained unit will appear to have lost them. Either way, they'll actually be a 'blend' of each type and this should show up in its record within the battle logfile.

I guess the survivors salvage the weapons and armour after the battle (even if they lost xD). I'm not sure though. That's why I always make sure I reinforce these units with un-upgraded units, hey it's war, nothings meant to be fair.

I can't argue with your reasoning there!