He is talking about a specific time period. "We have been hitting them hard and given them little chance to recover." If you take a break from attacking, that is giving them a chance to recover, but when you constantly attack so the lords don't get the chance to recruit and train their troops before you have to go to battle (Aka 40 recruit-parties), that is not recovering. Of course everyone recovers in time, but then again neither Warband nor Bannerlord wars last very long usually. The phrase is not meant as they haven't recovered at all, but that the fact that they haven't recovered back to where they were in "total strength" as of before the war. To recover, you have to lose something.
What are you on about, mate? It means they have been actively hitting the enemy. When you bring in an army and take castle after castle, then of course that counts as giving little chance to recover.
Same, bud. I feel like we're on the same page, but I prefer the old ways of asking a lord or sending a companion as spy.
Not at all. "It's too early in the fight". "We've hit them hard and given them little chance to recover". "We've been hit hard and given little chance to recover" etc etc. All the dialouge options from Warband is still relevant.
I usually do a lot of merc before I create my own kingdom or join one, and all the companions scatter around so you have to run around and fetch them, just to add them to your party and ship them out again. In that kind of playstyle, it actually is an annoyance.
Didn't work for me unfortunately. :/