All good questions, and I note that we have no answers either.
Every last Forum has folks requesting an expansion of the notification feature, and instead we get 2 items moved to a more secure inventory, ok. But then nothing is easy is it? The Spire link was broken for those who play the game in the original format, and multiple important productions lost. Seems to me, when the troops were redesigned, we were given 4 weeks of warning, that our existing resources would be useless. don't train more, use up what you have. SMH