I was going to start a dumb noob question thread of my own, but I decided it would be better to piggyback on this one!

Basically my problem is that I have a lot of units that are high quality but have a massive yellow streak (low valour). This is the first GA campaign I've played (English, early), and although I totally fumbled my Crusading attempt (lousy Jihads!) I steamrollered Western Europe fairly easily and am well ahead on points. Because of this I've been tootling along for a while and not launching any big campaigns, while building all the nice, shiny new units as they become available.

But the Horde have now made a move against me (it's about 1300), and I'm finding that even when I have modern, elite units I'm coming off second best in a lot of melees because they've got no bottle.

What is the best/ quickest/ easiest way of boosting valour without getting streamrollered by battle-hardened MHC...?