Despite this being my first post on these forums, I've been playing Total War series since Shogun. Excellent mods like EB and RTR have made the games even more enjoyable. I decided to post my question/request at EB forums simply because this mod is the one I play most nowadays. I even uninstalled MTW2 and Kingdoms since their battles didn't feel "right" after getting used to the combat model offered by RTR and EB.

Simply put, I'm very, very annoyed about the way reinforcing your armies works. If your forces suffer losses, you must walk them home to the nearest city that has sufficient infrastructure or the right location to build the unit to get them back at full strength. Don't get me wrong - I like the way EB handles recruitment in a more realistic way, not allowing you to recruit, say, Italian elite troops from an Indian city month after you've conquered it. However, moving units or armies back and forth for replacing losses is simply annoying from a gamist perspective. It requires such obscene amount of micromanagement and consumes gaming time that the game becomes less fun. Often when my empires grow larger I tend to stop playing because I can't be bothered to spend hours just to move armies back home for retraining or the like.

This has left me wanting for a better way to handle replacing losses, that will take less time. It would be nice if a player could retrain his troops in any and all cities on the map. However, the retraining process should take more time and money the further away you are from the closest province capable of producing the unit being retrained. The money and time taken would represent the reinforcements travelling where the unit is based. The said process might as well make the unit disappear from the map completely, thus abstracting the process of the troops moving back home, being filled back to full strength and marching back. The real point is to have a way to refill your stacks without micromanagement. I want playing a game to be fun, not feel like work - and moving those units back and forth is tedious and boring.

So, please enlighten me oh wise modders of this community - is a such change even possible? Does the game engine itself somehow prevent this wish of mine from reaching reality? Is there somewhere a mod that changed the retraining method to what I'm describing - either for RTW or MTW2? Is there perhaps a minimod that does this to EB? In my opinion, EB would be pretty damn close to perfect if the retraining was just a bit easier to accomplish.