ok when you have a platoon can you just throw people in it to make it bigger? does it cost more resources, or do they have to train or something (i cant try because pc isnt good enough to run game )
If a platoon is under strength, you can multi-pickup as many villagers as you wish, both men and women, and add them to a platoon. The platoon's experiance will not change as a result of this.
Good question on the resourses though, never thought to look at that.
Your platoon needs to be understrength (less than 5) and the first person you drop (not throw) can't be a woman. You get a breeder disciple then and not a soldier.
it can't just be "undermanned" the platoons health must be at the yellow/red before you can reinforce it with disciple soldiers
and even then you have to be carefull. if you feed to many disciple soldiers into a platoon you won't be able to disban it
(found that out the hard way)