To have a marshal announce "I'm going to run some test by issuing late orders, follow them if you can't, but don't worry otherwise" would be bad enough for me. It has undertones of "I won't punish you, but you should get better" while, as a matter of fact, you shouldn't.
Why would ou even announce that? I'd just purposely supply orders not long before the turn, and see what comes of it
it would be perfect if I can find two regions bordering a third, both with one-turn travel times. Everybody ending up in region A was slow, everybody in B was quick, and everybody left in C was an unreliability.
These drills would not at all be about punishing nobles. They are purely to test variables in the army.
