Ok, after reading the walls of texts and actually starting to answer one of them point by point, I think I understand better where Fendrin is coming from.
The issue he's complaining about is that once a campaign reaches a certain difficulty, i.e. you're facing exclusively lvl 3 units, it's extremely hard to bring fresh recruits into the mix to diversify your army or replace losses. That's because: - Lvl 1 units are damn hard to protect in such an environment - With the pitiful amount of damage they do, you'll likely end up putting your high-level units at risk when trying to give the greenhorn a kill - Units tend to take several scenarios to level. This means that you'll need to recall that lvl 1 *almost leveled* Spearman instead of the badass Elven Avenger, *for the same price*. If you're leveling 2-4 units at a time, as you should to take into account losses, this cripples your army quite a bit. Fendrin's proposal would make recalling weaker units to level them up a more interesting proposal. This said I'm not fully convinced, since it seems to me that the campaign/scenario should be designed so that if you play moderately well, you should have leftover gold to recall outlier units without crippling your main strike force. That, plus lower-level units are *already *less expensive to field because of the support costs. Those can weigh in much more than the initial recall costs, especially if the scenario is long or there are few villages. Contrary to what Fendrin is saying, I think the ability to change difficulty level mid-campaign is relevent: if you really get stuck without a good gold margin, just lower the difficulty one or two notches, use that to get more gold, and up the challenge once you're ready for it. ----- On another note, I definitely stand more with David than Boucman on the issue of campaign gameplay. Yes, it's fun to have your success in one scenario affect the following ones. You can lose the campaign by a chain of pyrrhic victories, and that's what makes it a campaign and not a string of unconnected missions. Gabriel aka gabba
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