I'm finding almost impossible to level up troops in the current 1.3 beta and i end up with an army full of recruits. I manually attack looters but they always end up killing an insane amount of troops, like attacking a 20 looters party with a 40 men party ends with more than 20 losses on my side if i don't run interference, very few get only wounded.
The other thing that grinds my gears is that the few troops i manage to level up tend to die more than recruits in battle. I recently started a new playthrough with sturgia and i'm really struggling to get a semi-decent party, when i join armies with my full party my troops just get deleted, i didn't manage to get a single t5 unit yet because they just die and when the army gets disbanded i find myself with 10 to 15 units, the majority of which are just recruits.
I play on realistic and i don't really want to lower the difficulty because it just doesn't feel right to make my troops take less damage than the enemy.
In my previous Vlandia playthrough i didn't have such an issue (sturgian units seem more susceptible to death), it was not easy to get a good party but at least around day 400 i could field a pretty stable high tier army, to the point i started to recruit only t3+ from villages and towns completely ignoring everything below t3 .
In sturgia the best i could find are some sporadic t2 units and they are very rare, about noble units i probably found 3 or 4 warrior sons. I'm starting to think it could be a problem related to faction, i noticed that prosperity in sturgia is really low compared to other factions, Varnovapol is the town with the highest prosperity with only around 3k while other factions have 5k+ prosperity on more than one town, same for villages which have max 400 hearts while i saw some 700+ for other factions.
I admit that this playtrhough is still in the early stage but i don't recall having such hard times playing with Vlandia, Battania or Empire.
The other thing that grinds my gears is that the few troops i manage to level up tend to die more than recruits in battle. I recently started a new playthrough with sturgia and i'm really struggling to get a semi-decent party, when i join armies with my full party my troops just get deleted, i didn't manage to get a single t5 unit yet because they just die and when the army gets disbanded i find myself with 10 to 15 units, the majority of which are just recruits.
I play on realistic and i don't really want to lower the difficulty because it just doesn't feel right to make my troops take less damage than the enemy.
In my previous Vlandia playthrough i didn't have such an issue (sturgian units seem more susceptible to death), it was not easy to get a good party but at least around day 400 i could field a pretty stable high tier army, to the point i started to recruit only t3+ from villages and towns completely ignoring everything below t3 .
In sturgia the best i could find are some sporadic t2 units and they are very rare, about noble units i probably found 3 or 4 warrior sons. I'm starting to think it could be a problem related to faction, i noticed that prosperity in sturgia is really low compared to other factions, Varnovapol is the town with the highest prosperity with only around 3k while other factions have 5k+ prosperity on more than one town, same for villages which have max 400 hearts while i saw some 700+ for other factions.
I admit that this playtrhough is still in the early stage but i don't recall having such hard times playing with Vlandia, Battania or Empire.