Do you retrain?

[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?

[Havok.]

i'm guilty on massive retraining

[johnhughthom]

It's not a crime to play the game the way you want to.

[QuintusSertorius]

It's not a crime to play the game the way you want to.

True enough.

[Mediolanicus]

I retrain in the beginning of campaigns, but it becomes more rarely when I expand.

On a side note. I play with BI.exe and I see the AI retraining constantly!!! Only the Eleutheroi don't retrain in my campaigns.

[Rilder]

Yes.

It annoys me to hell to have an army with under strength units, Half the time I fight a battle, retrain, send them out again, they fight, get sent home and retrain.

Not realistic most likely but eh.

[Cambyses]

Ive given pretty in depth reasons in another thread, but I would say its also pretty annoying to fight with small scrappy units of locally trained troops - especially in defensive garrison type cities that literally get besieged every other turn for many many years.

So, I do tend to retrain on defence, but rarely do so when sending out my conquering hordes, as its easier to merge units and buy mercenaries. On that note I often have a semi stack of reinforcements following along behind for just that purpose.

[Constantius I]

Yes I retrain all the time, I have 6 legions, two on active campaign, one in reserve in Rome, and three on defense in three "sectors" I created-Greece, Iberia and Cisalpine Gual. The two on campaign are relatively fresh, my reserve was recently on the front line but I moved them back to Rome to celebrate a triumph. I am going to transport the reserve back to the frontline soon, Carthage/North Africa, and put a battle worn legion back to Rome in order to retrain and act as a central reserve once again.


The System is brutally effective, making the game on vh/h really easy....

[Digby Tatham Warter]

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

I retrain quite alot, and I use a replacement army/force to hold the ground if needed.

I have also seen many elite units loose chevrons when retrained, usually in poportion to the casualties!

[Hektor]

Hi all!I retrain whenever it is possible.I know, its nit right to retrain on ALEX.EXE.But I play on VH/VH.And KI get a lot of bonus experiences with the battle.I play the Romancompany.In start Aedui, Scweboz and Arverni had war with each other.Now they are all my enemies.And I see all the time a lot of them with 3 silver Chevrons.The play slowly starts to be really difficult.One Question:how I can reduce the KI-bonus. Which file use.(Sorry for my English)

[Dumbass]

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

You still have tosend out a whole stack load of units though to yours frontlines to merge and bolster your units. I prefer shipping my guys back, it also ensures I don't expand too quickly.