What kind of help would a new reg even need though? Nobody can magically pull more active members out of their hat.
The uphill struggle is just getting steeper and steeper. Its easier to make a name out of yourself both skill wise and leadership wise if you just join one of the larger regiments at this point purely cos its getting increasingly difficult to actually recruit members if you start off a regiment with a small name. Especially cos the cooler more innovative events that are on offer are few and far between often requiring regiments to be well known and bigger (i.e 20+ for line regiments)
If you start off a fresh regiment that is specialist based it'd be even harder - the majority of top tier events have HUGE waiting lists for these types of units and there aren't even enough Linebattles going round (roughly 2 full events for weekdays and maybe 3 on weekends) to accommodate your specialist regiment, it'll be impossible to grabfor these specialists slots when you're competing against large regiments that'll bring a line too to secure that slot. As a small new line regiment you'd just get stuck in the same old boring events with heaps of specialist units just using and abusing you - something that we've all played repetitively for too many years, with a small of intake of recruits you could get on a good day (and even smaller retention rate - especially now) stagnation and repetitiveness is a recipe for disaster.
Kinda sad because theres no decent mid-low tier EU regiment that is positioning itself to be the dark horse of NW for 2021 that could both really introduce more players and get the purely casual players much more involved, but I guess if there is a demand something will always spring up, question is - is there even enough demand anymore?
