• The stats and level of a militia/enemy/civilian are highly dependent on game progress, sector distance to the queen's palace and other factors. A militia created in Meduna with progress 100 vastly outclasses a militia created in Drassen with progress 5. If we want militia to carry over these stats, we have to essentially revamp the entire system, not only for militia, but for everyone. I do not want to do such a massive change right now.
• Manually outfitting militia with items. Managing the inventory of 64 mercs can already get tedious (even though I've made work easier for me by having their inventories as streamlined as possible). Additionally managing hundreds of militia... bah. Too much for me.
  Additionally, the UI work required isn't exactly tiny, either.
• Traits are closely interwoven with items. If we can't control what stats and items a militia gets, there is no point in deciding their traits.
• Apart from the money aspect, there isn't much reason to manually handle promotions instead of promoting militia asap. So this can't be set either.