If I have dozens of followers from the Leadership feat, all with the same stats, is there any logical reason why they wouldn't be able to form a troop, as shown in the Bestiary 6?
Same reason summoning a bunch of rats cannot make a swarm of rats.
However, gaining a troop as a follower of suitable level would be reasonable. However, even low CR Troops have high hit die which means they are high level.
/cevah
The exact number of a troop’s component creatures varies, but in general, a troop of Small or Medium creatures consists of approximately 12 to 30 creatures.
I think it's pretty easy to get enough followers to meet this goal of having a troop. It's certainly a reasonable way to handle them.
...Though even if the troop itself isn't completely slain, just taking damage may mean some of your followers are dying, and you may take appropriate penalties to your Leadership score.
Followers dying doesn't cause one's Leadership score to decrease. Directly causing them to die is what decreases it.
For that, I would have to knowingly send them on a suicide mission, or pretty much kill them myself.
The swarm argument doesn't really hold water either. You'd have to summon hundreds, if not thousands, of vermin to make a swarm; whereas a troop only needs as little as 12 people.
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On the subject of leadership skill. With the addition of troops does the leadership skills translate to the amount of instruction you give to the number of troops that you have
For example if you have two troops of Spearman can you order them to go in different directions and perform different actions according to the number in your leadership score? In some tactical game circle command points.
Another question is how does team feats fit into the ability of troops, can they take feats like phalanx?
In the real life formations dictate the amount of damage and defense a troop has how is a troop affected by a forest compared to a Cliffords what kind of formations can they achieve and how does that affect their ability?
In mass formations I would imagine morale comes more into play when the big bad fighter wipes out half a troop in one cleave.
Last question I swear how does troops fit into the information in the ultimate campaign? In the microeconomic section and the mass comment section?