SP - General Battles Could Be More Rewarding

[Alfredsauce]

Currently playing on realistic settings and Ironman mode 1.6.2, fighting battles against armies 600-800 strong. If I'm lucky, I'll get around 12 or 13 renown at most and somehow I receive a smaller portion of loot and prisoners than the rest of the army (I defeated Rhagaea's army and got some minor noble as a prisoner). I'm grinding through Clan Tier 3 and it feels pointless to lead armies when I could grow my renown just as quickly by fighting smaller warbands. It's nice that some of my skills improve through leading armies, and the loot is tolerable, but I didn't sacrifice half of my personal entourage and destroy 3 imperial armies just to get 30 renown and a couple of prisoners. Sorry if this sounds like a rant, but my takeaway from all of this is that there isn't much of an incentive to fight large battles.