Do you retrain?

[Chris1959]

I used to a lot for my legions, but I've just re-started a new camaign on 1.1, with loads of mini-mods so I will now use fresh drafts to re-inforce.
I would like to disband legions after a term of service but it takes to long to re-recruit, an area that is good in MTW2.

[QuintusSertorius]

When I retrain a veteran unit, I almost always lose chevrons. Especially when there are only a handful of men left; I've seen silver chevron units drop to 1 or 2 bronze.

In the handful of times I've retrained, I've never seen loss of experience, no matter how depleted a unit is.

I would like to disband legions after a term of service but it takes to long to re-recruit, an area that is good in MTW2.

Too long? When you've got all your Italian towns able to recruit either Romans or Italian allies, it takes two, or at most three turns to create a full stack consular army.

Which you can always do in advance of disbanding the old army.

[mucky305]

Yes, but only in originating provinces and only factional troops (allied troops are disbanded in their home province). I generally merge and then retrain (if above 50% strength) or disband (if below). It works well and helps to model the veteran core of troops that tend to stay.

[polluxlm]

When you have 90 provinces and 20 armies it's simply too much of a hassle to bother with those things. Easier to just send your full army home.

Exploit? If I had the ability to have bureaucrats fix all that shit for me, like the kings had, yes then it would be.

[Janius]

"No, and I play with alex.exe" got my vote

I consider retraining a cheat, so I just don't use it. But I do think that if the ai can benefit from it, it should be allowed to use it

[Dumbass]

It's too boring to have to create new units and merge them together.

[QuintusSertorius]

It's too boring to have to create new units and merge them together.

And having to ship an entire army back to your homeland (who's replacing them in the meantime?) isn't?