Quote Originally Posted by John_Longarrow
Corka,

In the wish list thread I've got an idea that may solve many of the problems with the AI over exerting itself. When you attack someone they should be able to call out the malitia. That means they should be able to pull up a lot of pesants / town malitia / spear malitia to fight off the attack with the understanding that these units will auto-disband after the fight. This is similar to what really happened during the time period.

Hopefully this would make the standing armies the "Offensive" force with malitia being used for defence, and only when needed.
But that would mean fighting more crap militia
The player will just run through them with better units... sure it can bring the numbers to bear upon the campaign and slow it down... but would it make it more challenging or a chore ?