Quote Originally Posted by Kralizec
And to be fair, MTW had that horrorible concept of your general's stars adding to units valour (minus the morale)
If you had 6 stars while the enemy has none, you could win the battle with only peasants!
Not peasants. Maybe UM though (yes the combat value of peasants is that bad, at valour 3 they're still worse than UM, not counting size).

I prefer the MTW system when it comes to troops re-training, even if it's a sad day when a high valoured unit get badly mauled. I mean, for RTW it hardly matter as the replacements are as good as the guys who died.
And that is enough to keep the valour low enough in the game.

Degrading units has the potential of getting really annoying. Old veterans from earlier campaigns aren't better than raw recruits, due to age. Thus veterans are only useful for the current frontlines, meaning that the border is guarded with recruits.