Generals/Retinues - something I wish CA had done differently

[Antagonist]

I'm not sure about 1), personally I like having to ship people around occasionally, even if it's a bother sometimes. I definately agree with 2) though. Since Ancillaries are not actually characters in the game, it makes sense that you could tell them to go to x person and have them make their own way, perhaps over 2 or 3 turns depending on the distance. This limitation is particularly noticable in BI, when the Ancillaries system is expanded to things like Offices: I really missed being able to drag and drop titles & offices, as you could in MTW.

Antagonist

[Mooks]

Nice ideas.

Heres a example to add this idea, Archimedes adds seige bonuse's,I think its
1+ when attacking a castle and 100 extra building points YET the generals that most likely get this are the ones governing city' with ludas magna, and by then they are to old and to far away from the combat to do anything with the guy.

But on top of this idea I think you should have a pool of potential retinues, say you got a cilviled slave, It should cost you XX amount of denarii to get him/her to Hergoth the Hungry (Or whoever). Then other retinues you cant recruit, like priests...But you should be able to dismiss them.

[Ludens]

I agree with you that the micromanagement required, especially in the later phases of a campaign, can be a bit too much, but I don't think abstracting it will work. Armies operate on the campaignmap so general have to that as well; governors are generals, ergo they need to be on the campaignmap.

I think a better solution would be to lower the number of traits and retinues gained. It should be possible to get a full eight-member retinu, but rare. This would decrease the amount of MM required while not making the system infunctional.