Title:
More usefulness for Marshals (Vice-Marshals, Marshals and Generals -High Marshals-).
Summary:
More usefulness for Marshals, giving a bonus to armies commanded by Marshals.
Details:
-Marshals-
The Leadership of Marshals will be used as a 'direct' bonus on the CS of the units of his army:
Marshal Leadership / 5 = Number of units the Marshal can command efficiently. If exceed, the Marshal will be overwhelmed, so no bonus.
Marshal Leadership / 3 = CS Bonus the units get.
A Marshal with 5% Leadership will be almost useless, the only way to 'give' a bonus would be to command only ONE unit (himself): 5/5=1% CS bonus for one unit.
A Marshal with 50% Leadership will be a good one: 50/3=16% bonus, if his army is 10 units or smaller.
Groups of units without army, or armies without Marshal, etc... will 'work' as usual.
-Vice-Marshals-
If only is present the Vice-Marshal, He will 'work' the same way as a Marshal would.
If both are presents, the Vice-Marshal will give a bonus to his Marshal's Leadership.
Vice-Marshal Leadership / 3 = Leadership Bonus the Marshal gets.
-Generals (High Marshals)-
They work the same way than Marshals, but they give their bonus to the Marshals Leadership.
General Leadership / 20 = Number of Marshals the General can command efficiently. If exceed, the General is overwhelmed, so no bonus.
General Leadership / 2 = Leadership Bonus the Marshals get.
So, If a General has a 50% Leadership, and has 2 Marshals with their armies, He would give a 25% Leadership bonus (50/2=25) to his 2 Marshals (50/20=2)... This way, 'his' Marshals will give a bigger bonus to their units.
As always, units alone, or armies without Marshals, would receive no bonus.
In 'Multi-Realm' army groups:
1-The Generals will give NO bonus. (or in some random way).
OR
2-Depending on their General Leadership, the armies would have more or less possibilities of become 'lost' and don't reach the battlefield in time for the battle.
Benefits:
Right now, the usefulness of a Marshal is very limited. Armies can fight as good with Marshals, as without them! An army works in battle as good without ANY command as if commanded by all the realm's military staff.
I would too give a use to the 'Leadership' skill, as well as to chose a formation.
Possible Exploits:
With malus the 'exploits' would be very easy, but if we use only bonus... none, I can think of...
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Note: The English is not my native language, so sorry for the grammatical/orthographic errors.
Note 2: It seems there is another Feature Requests, Proposed but not Approved, "General Bonus for Multiple Armies in Battles" but IMHO It's not very 'fleshed' and uses a bonus/malus system that is somewhat exploitable.