i dont think militias should have unlocked division templates because if you go down the quantity path you could basically just print manpower and guns

If theyre unlocked I would do the spawning method that creates a new template every time and gives the same unit it currently does, just every spawn cycle a new template technically.

if you unlocked them would the militias be disbandable?

Yes, that would be the biggest reason I would want to have the division template be unlocked. Ultimately if it were unlocked you would have a few options when spawning militias:

1) Manually convert them over to a single template
Downside: Manually have to switch templates over every spawn
Upside: Can actually edit/disband existing militias

2) Leave them as seperate templates
Downside: Loads of templates.
Upside: Easier so long as having loads of templates doesnt bother you

3) Delete them upon spawning
Downside: Gamey
Upside: Meta-ish unless you go down Quality because then they are actually fairly proper divisions.



Maybe if I spent a fkton of time researching it and trying stuff I could have a nice and simple way to do it.

Alternative way of doing the militias would be to have a slightly gamey option of 'unlock division template' at which point any further spawning will have reloaded the base template, thus allowing any existing units to be deleted/edited but then future ones spawn off a new template. This is something I just thought of while writing the previous and I think this might be the option I go with now that I realized it because it's not that bad, I can have it be named something like 'reorganize existing militias' with a tooltip 'unlocks currently raised militias to allow them to be deleted and edited.'

I think you could probably just unlock the militias if you make the militias spawn with like for example only half their equipment that way it isnt as gamey to disband them because you have a lot of manpower as is and equipment is really your only worry really in the civil war.