It will be very useful to see if there are recruits. It is very annoying to go to bunch of the villages, and enter to everyone, than clicking to Recruit then there are no available recruits, again two exit clicks and again and again. If showing numbers as hint all the time is contradicting to your vision of gameplay, show them only from very little distance or, at least, show that number of available recruits on the first settlement screen, (like percent when disguising).
Thanks
Thanks