Quote Originally Posted by Shigawire
So we can't let an entire army die in the desert of thirst and exhaustion, as we might have wanted... ...All of this has been thought carefully of already - and dispelled by RTW engine modding-limitations.
I have no clue about modding whatsoever, so the following suggestion might be useless, but anyway:

Would it be possible to let armies loose men if they are badly supplied or exhausted (due to forced maching) by one of these two methods:

1. Fake a siege: making the programm think that the army is besieged and let it loose men through the existing mechanism for sieges.

2.Make them ill: just infect them with a disease that would then kill some men (and maybe let them be cured once they are well supplied again or rested)?

I don't know much about diseases in ancient wars, but from the middle ages until at least early 19th century, diseases were major killers for most armies in the field (or camps). So the disease might be more realistic.