Disbanding Units ?

[Agrajag]

If possible, give a commander an item that lets him lead troops underwater, give him as many militia as possible, send him to an underwater province, have him leave the province with the militia still there, enjoy as they drown.

If you can pull it off, it is a much easier way to kill, since there's no need to gather all the militiamen that fled the battle in which you were trying to get them killed.

[JulienLeo]

Great idea Agrajag !!!
Gotta try that ... Well I am also a bit relieved cause I checked everywhere if there was a mean to disband unit and couldn't find it ... glad that it wasn't an oversight from my part *grins*

[Dedas]

I think there really should be a disband button to let the soldiers go back to their home province. They could just be added (back?) to the population. Summoned units should of course disappear and undead turn back into corpses.

[Aleph]

LA Ermor has got a lot of options for dealing with such undesirables. Wind of Death, Burden of Time, Harvester of Sorrows, etc.

If you don't have stuff to get your people underwater, you can also find a crap province with low supply and low pop (swamp, wastleland) and send your crap units there to pillage it to death. Then abandon them there - no people, no supply, they'll starve. It's slow, but everyone can do it.

[danm]

Dedas said:
I think there really should be a disband button to let the soldiers go back to their home province. They could just be added (back?) to the population. Summoned units should of course disappear and undead turn back into corpses.

I'd be for this if it bumped unrest in the province they were in on dismissal.

unemployed soldiers tend to make naughty citizens.

It really WOULD be nice for the softer-hearted pretenders out there to have a way to stand down forces short of mass murder )

[Dedas]

Agreed!

[TirAsleen]

Really good suggestions here, i hope they will be implemented once in a dom game. Disbanding units in a province, that increase unrest and slightly population seems a good idea, cause pillaging provinces is too powerful anyways.

10K province that is pillaged to some few hundred, can hardly ever repopulate back.

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TirAsleen said:
10K province that is pillaged to some few hundred, can hardly ever repopulate back.

Well, that kind of makes sense to me. 95% of the villagers have been slaughtered, and there's no guarantee that it won't happen again in the near future. It's not likely that anyone is going to want to move there.

[Hellboy]

danm said:
I'd be for this if it bumped unrest in the province they were in on dismissal.

unemployed soldiers tend to make naughty citizens.

It really WOULD be nice for the softer-hearted pretenders out there to have a way to stand down forces short of mass murder )

I very, very much want to see a disband troops ability.

However, at least for me, the whole purpose of the disband troops ability would be lost (or at least reduced) if it also increased unrest in a province. The whole point of a disband troops feature (to me) is to reduce mm. Since it is always feasible to get your useless troops killed off, and since doing so always involves some trivial/tedious work to do so, it matches the very definition of micromanagement. If unrest were increased, then whenever I disbanded troops I would then have to micromanage the province back to 0 unrest (since I don't use autotax).

So, I would certainly be for a disband troops feature with no side effects.

Adding pop back to the province sounds nice, but it does allow you to recruit lots of militia in one province (which you don't pay for in population) then add pop to that province or some other province. The net effect is that you can pay cash in order to grow population. Could be an unbalancing result.

[TirAsleen]

Disbanding units would certainly help the annyoing freespawn problem some nations like panagea and LE Ryleh do have as well.

Or LE Ermor when you get the "Zealot" Event. No hassle to think about strategies to kill your own troops anymore.