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marc420 said:
q) I've been trying to figure out the small squad vs large squad idea. I've been trying the idea that by splitting my infantry into small squads, I'd minimize the routing of all the squads at once. But reading this I'm learning the part about a large squads might be harder to route. So what's the conventional wisdom about which is better. Splitting your troops out into the five or more squads that a leader or leaders can handle, or bunching the troops up into one big squad that's harder to rout?
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If you have morale 50 troops afaik they never rout . Morale 30 troops almost never rout as well .
So undeads , devils , mechanical men , vine ogres and the likes can be used in very small squads and still fight normally until extinction .
The common troops with morale of 8-12 should better be used in large squads otherwise they might run from the first volley of missiles .
As Gandalf has said you can mix in your low morale troops a few vinemen or undead or similiar to increase the squad morale a lot .
With many nations it is important to quickly replace your national troops by summoned ones . Mictlan is a good example for this unless you run a good blessing .
Most national troops become rather obsolete in midgame .
Vans , Jotunheims Gigants and a few other national troops are exeptions .
In general the bigger part of your upkeep is better spent for mages though .