I just began a game paying "green" and there are some thingsq I don't quite understand.
-Three of my provinces don't have a "head" indicating the population living in them. Is that normal?
-Two of those are provinces where I moved my two hordes. In one case, there's now no rural population in the province (and it stays the same if I move my horde). The city still has a population. In the other case, the population indicated is either "100 Germans" or exactly the same size and type of population as the last province I clicked on (could be 39 000 Gallo-Romans, or 13 856 Germans, whatever I clicked last on).So, does the presence of a horde "destroy" the local population?
-At the beginning of the game, I put some commanders in the hordes, since I didn't have that many armies. Now, I can't manage to get them back. They seem to be "stuck" with the horde. Worst, one of them was my king, and when he died, his successor was in the horde too. Is there a way to send back to the pool a general/king in charge of a horde?
-Still about generals. How do I tell apart "historic" and "non-historic" ones? I assumed the "non-historic" leaders were those I created when splitting armies, etc...and it seemed that when I merged armies "historic" leaders went back to the pool, while "non-historic" ones just vanished. But I recently got some generals appearing in the pool, so assumed they were "historic". But when I merged the units they commanded, they vanished too. Is that normal?
-Finally, about levies. I'm supposed to get some every year, but I only get them from time to time. I assume the total number of units is topped (so, I stop getting levies when I already have a certain number of units on the map). Am I right? Also, if I'm right and the total number of units is topped, does this maximal number change over time (for instance when I own a larger territory) or not?
-If the maximum number of units is topped as per the previous question, should I dismiss units that suffered from attrition to get brand new intact units the next year? And also, are units that suffered from attrition less powerful in combat? They still appear as having their full number of men (say, 2000 by unit). Are they weaker than an intact unit in battle, or not? Or are they just more likely to disappear if they suffer again from attrition, while staying exactly as strong as an intact unit when fighting?