Is there a way to raise your army partially?

[Silver Shroud]

Question in subj.

Let's say I have 20k levies 16 knights and some special troops.

So I raise this whole army to form 3 elite squads of 3k troops in each (in 99% of wars I need only those to win).
Having this 11k levies just stay in there eating my gold for doing nothing and starving to death after a while, or I will have to disband them with penalty of 13+ months waiting them to go back available for raising.

So I have only 2 dumb options atm:
1. Pay maintenance cost and let people starve to death.
2. Disband not needed levies and have penalty of more than year before you can start new war.

Is there something I am missing is there a way to actually raise the right amount of levies I need for this particular war and leave the rest as a reserve?

It's really become tedious to manage all this army ♥♥♥♥ every single time I am having a war and I am permanently at war with someone. So most of my gameplay I do the same ♥♥♥♥ over and over rise 20k for 3 squads starve the rest.

[Mad Max]

Someone told me this last night.

When the army is being raised, wait till they get to the number of troops you want then CTRL - CLICK move them. Viola!

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Max the Grape:

Someone told me this last night.

When the army is being raised, wait till they get to the number of troops you want then CTRL - CLICK move them. Viola!

Honestly, they should just give us the same option as if you create a new army from a existing one, where you can assign which regiments and leader it gets.
Why cant that be a standard option when you mobilize a army somewhere?

Would solve all the problems with the current system.
I mean its ALREADY there, just only possible with a raised army right now.

[titanopteryx]

Create 2 rally points. The Levies and the men at arms tend to be raised seperately. Then dismiss the levies.

[Bmorekareful]

Half them out and disband what you don't want, been doing that since 2012

[soul like that be capable of]

literally should be allowed to pick what type of leavis u want to bring. that really something that need to be patched. sometimes you vs a mall army of 800or even rebel army . u need no more than 1500 troops . i should be able to choose from what vassal and location bring troops . its 2020 not 1990 . some of the game mech is kind remind me of the 1980 games

[T-Murdah]

Would be nice to be able to split up your troops so you can have siege weapons in several of them.

[Rhudda]

Originally posted by Would Miracle win this ?:

i should be able to choose from what vassal and location bring troops . its 2020 not 1990 . some of the game mech is kind remind me of the 1980 games

You can. At the bottom of the military menu you'll see a little red flag with a plus symbol next to it. Click on the plus to create new rally points. When you select a rally point, you get the option to raise all troops there or only raise nearby troops. I've not played around with raising only local troops enough to know whether having more rally points influences the amount of troops you'll raise, but it is there.

Originally posted by T-Murdah:

Would be nice to be able to split up your troops so you can have siege weapons in several of them.

You could have several copies of siege weapons, but that would limit what other men-at-arms you can bring.

[Silver Shroud]

Originally posted by Bmorekareful:

Half them out and disband what you don't want, been doing that since 2012

That's exactly what I am doing right now, but as I worte in post disbanding 11k levies gives you 13 month delay of raising them again, which is kinda a lot

[Silver Shroud]

Originally posted by Max the Grape:

Someone told me this last night.

When the army is being raised, wait till they get to the number of troops you want then CTRL - CLICK move them. Viola!

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[Mikey]

Originally posted by Hagrid Glodson:

Originally posted by Would Miracle win this ?:

i should be able to choose from what vassal and location bring troops . its 2020 not 1990 . some of the game mech is kind remind me of the 1980 games

You can. At the bottom of the military menu you'll see a little red flag with a plus symbol next to it. Click on the plus to create new rally points. When you select a rally point, you get the option to raise all troops there or only raise nearby troops. I've not played around with raising only local troops enough to know whether having more rally points influences the amount of troops you'll raise, but it is there.

Originally posted by T-Murdah:

Would be nice to be able to split up your troops so you can have siege weapons in several of them.

You could have several copies of siege weapons, but that would limit what other men-at-arms you can bring.

Raising only local levies means you only raise levies from counties inbetween the selected rally point and the nearest other rally points.
Personally I never use more than one rally point and just keep moving it around

[dooN]

Those all are rough solutions. For example i want to raise just my lavies to retake besieged holdings or to support ally in his battle by adding simple man power, i want quantity instead of quality, don't want to use my man-at-arms troops cause upkeep small portion of them costs twice as high as my whole lavies, so i have to go into the dividing army window and manually picking troops i don't want one by one every single time. It has no sense.
In ck2 i could pick wich specific troop i want to raise.

[KriegerKR]

This post is old and has been necro'd but there's a button to raise just your men-at-arms now which is pretty great for putting down rebellions or small nations you want to conquer.

[Silver Shroud]

Originally posted by Krieger:

This post is old and has been necro'd but there's a button to raise just your men-at-arms now which is pretty great for putting down rebellions or small nations you want to conquer.

yeah lol, and thats exactly what I was looking for :)

[dooN]

But there is no button for raise just lavies and that is my issue.
Fact that this post is old as time only points out that nothing good had happened in that regards through all that time.
Where is advantage of raising MaA for suppresing uprisings if one hundred footmens costs one gold to upkeep while 2500 lavies costs around 7 gold (just checked it). Over three times more and i'm pretty sure that lavies would have squished maa with comparable amount of gold for upkeep. And time for raising both armies is no difference.
I recently bought ck3 and really consider to get refund and get back to 2.
I have few more issue with it, lack of fleet is one of them.

[Silver Shroud]

Originally posted by dooN:

But there is no button for raise just lavies and that is my issue.
Fact that this post is old as time only points out that nothing good had happened in that regards through all that time.
Where is advantage of raising MaA for suppresing uprisings if one hundred footmens costs one gold to upkeep while 2500 lavies costs around 7 gold (just checked it). Over three times more and i'm pretty sure that lavies would have squished maa with comparable amount of gold for upkeep. And time for raising both armies is no difference.
I recently bought ck3 and really consider to get refund and get back to 2.
I have few more issue with it, lack of fleet is one of them.

Well you can raise all your army on slow game speed wait till you need exact number of lavies than press that red (X) button to stop raising, then you can dissmiss men-at-arms and knights if you dont need them. I guess its the only way ATM a bit complicated but works.