1 man per unit

[Peter]

Is it possible to have 1 man in a whole unit? if it isnt what are the lowest number of men a unit can have in RTW without CTDs?

im keeping peasents as they are for garrison duty though

[Lusted]

The lowest is 4 i believe.

[Slimshoom]

ive got 3 before, and ive seen the computer have 2 in a town garrison after a battle.

[Red Harvest]

The answer is six. You cannot go below six when editing unit size (at least as of 1.0/1.1/1.2, I haven't retested in 1.3/1.5.) There are some tricks to make elephant units smaller...by adding riders you can reduce the number of beasts below six (riders must be six or more total--for instance, 4 elephants with 8 men worked if I recall correctly.)

Keep in mind that 6 = 3 for "small", 6 for "normal", 12 for "large", 24 for "huge"

You can have smaller scraps of units left after battle, but that is unrelated to the question asked.

[Peter]

Wow thank you guys. Do you know if the whole army gets destroyed if i lose a battle? i believe the engine will sort out units that are in very low number im i right?

will this work?

im gonna have so much fun with this if it actually workes out. my little mortal kombat battles betwen 12 elite soldiers

[LordSaradain]

Also, if you create your own historical battles(by adding '-enable_editor' in the shortcut, full details see Mod forum) you can set unit sizes between 1-300 soldiers I beleive.