User Interface Improvments Wanted

[General Tacticus]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
I tend to "retire" my wounded or cursed units into a province patrol. It feels good. Maybe because Im a veteran.

And I tend to put them on my arrow catching, lance fodder frontline. Wait, most of them were already on that line Strange, but my tactics often call for an expendable frontline to take most of the hits, while my elite units escape relatively unharmed...

But I can see the point about volunteers that show up. Those have been a pain for me. I wouldnt mind being able to discharge units from my service deirectlry into defence points of a province. That seems like a good idea.

edited: new thought. Then what happens with nations that get alot of free units? Pangaea maenads, is it Mictlan that can just summon troops of some sort? Hmmm no that wouldnt work since it would allow converting crappy troops into better defense.

Mictlan's Tribal Kings and Priests King can enslave and train slave soldiers, for free. They are, indeed, very poor soldiers. But the problem is not only for them : I wouldn't mind to be able to discharge Ulm plate infantry into my province defense at times, since it get very expensive to raise...

Maybe Saber's idea is better. A pretender should be able to snap their fingers and dispose of an army. Can that be abused? Are the free units SUPPOSED to force you into finding something to use them on?

More importantly, are they supposed to force you to divert a commander to lead them, drag them all to somewhere useful, finding support troops to make them a halfway decent trôop, and use them ?
Come on, instead of giving us 60 militia, can we have 5 knights if we take luck 3 ? Those would be worth the hassle to integrate...

[ January 21, 2004, 17:24: Message edited by: General Tacticus ]