Having a army rather than a handful of men

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This is something I have deeply missed since the first game featuring this style I loved.

It would be so much better to actually draft regiments, rather than unique soldiers. I don't know how challenging it would be to shrink a unit and put a dozen instead of one, but having regiments moving around and batteling in for me something hugely important.

Makes me feel as a true king rather than a guy with a bunch of friends. This "issue" is not specific to EWM but to all games that have come after Master of Magic.

You can say that one guy represent a troop, but then with only Master of Magic bothered showing this on the screen, rather than taking the oversimplification lazy route ?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Hhhmm regiments with memory problems, could be interesting :)

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Er correct me if I'm wrong but can't you already do that if you research the warfare tech tree enough?  One soldier is the starting size, then you can build 4-men squads, then 8? And final size is something like 16?  (haven't bothered building those yet).

After all, training soldiers draws upon your population so it makes a lot of sense to have single units at first and then having them grow as you learn better ways to train.  It may just be me though, who knows?

So lets say you have a full army of the bigger squads, that makes a lot more than a hundred soldiers in one stack which is a huge number considering the size of a settlement's population.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Doesn't really matter how big a unit is, when the animation simply shows each unit sending out 1 man to do the poking, except archers.