What is disciplined and elite?
Disciplined and elite are two special statuses that a unit can have.
1.Disciplined means the unit is less likely to chase off after enemy units when it is in the impetuous morale state. It also
means that the unit doesn’t care about routing units on its own side unless they are of disciplined or elite status. The
death of your general also has a reduced effect on disciplined units morale. This means that routing peasants and the like
can no longer panic your army. If a unit does not possess disciplined status by default the only way to add it is to build
the military academy in one of your production provinces. This will not add the disciplined tag to your unit but it will
increase their discipline slightly. Units like knights still tend to be impetuous even with the discipline upgrade.
2.Elite is a status that only the best troops have. It is similar to disciplined in that it means the unit ignores some routers,
in this case anyone who isn’t elite themselves. Elite does not make a unit easier to control and it can never bee added to
a unit that doesn’t already possess it.
Both of these statuses are highly desirable. You should try to use more units that have one of these statuses than units that
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have no special status to make your army harder to rout in one go.