I have been playing this game for about 4 hours on my N64, and wanted to ask a question:
Now I have read some people's opinion that the alignment system is broke, that you basically have to work the system to get the alignments you want. I disagree, and wanted to give you my plan for my team development. I am not interested in the perfect party, just an effective one.
My plan is to groom my units from the beginning to have about 2/3 armies high alignment, and 1/3 armies at low alignment. I will simply group all high alignment units into armies, and all of my low alignment units into armies. With my high alignment, I will gear them more defensive and attack with them first, softening up the enemies, and giving them little experience. The lower levels will help keep them at high alignment, and being grouped with other high alignment units will help too.
With my low alignment armies, which should have much higher attack, I can attack units after my high alignment armies have softened them. This will give them the most kills, and lower their alignment further due to the higher levels. I can also spend more training on them to get them to a higher level. Having the entire army at a low alignment will help their alignments stay low.
My ultimate goal is to group the armies into high and low alignment armies. The mutual alignments in armies will help them all stay at a low alignment. Also, it will specialize the armies into either offensive or defensive. Also, if I want to steer one unit's alignment to high or low, all I have to do is place them in an army with a high or low alignment. What do you think, is this a viable plan?