Do you use the new recruitment options?

[Ordani]

I dont like it very much. Seems rather pointless to me, since, at least in the pre-patch version, the units queued up by a general didn't update their destination when an army moved.

It's nice in principle, particularly for the period, but fairly useless in practice. You so rarely want a line of single units stretched across half the campaign map making their own way to the invoking army that it's easy to forget it's even there.

[Megas Methuselah]

I don't care much about the whole thing with the generals being able to recruit in the field, very pointless, might as well just manually recruit from the local barracks.

However, I agree that the retraining in the field is awesome! I can retrain my troops anywhere now! This is great for RP'ing purposes and easier for mods. As New Spain, I can train African Native Infantry as auxiliary units and send them off to America to partake in my wars, and not have to worry about shipping them back to Africa to retrain. Life is so much easier.

[Slaists]

It's nice in principle, particularly for the period, but fairly useless in practice. You so rarely want a line of single units stretched across half the campaign map making their own way to the invoking army that it's easy to forget it's even there.

It has some uses though. For example, you can camp a general in a choke-point fort with some hastily gathered militia army and then make him form a 'proper army' himself while not worrying about manually managing new unit movements. I like this feature.

Retraining in the field is great though. The only problem I see with it: some 'reality freaks' will probably mod it out later; unfortunately, that most likely will happen in the best ETW mods that will come

[loony]

I saw the recruitment as a way to model supply lines... unrealistic, but a move in a correct direction.