Hard Training
Preparation is everything if you want to win - and live to fight again!The armies of the early Middle Ages were built upon a strong backbone of elite troops, drawn from the noble and aristocratic classes. These men generally had the best armour, the best weapons and the best horses. They hunted, trained against dummies and each other, and were primed and ready for war whenever it came. However, they alone were too small a force to form a real standing army, and so levies padded out their numbers. Mustered together by regional lords and vassals to the king, levied troops were trained as well as individual lords could afford. This meant that the quality of levies, whilst never exceptional, varied from place to place - some were afforded weapons and armour by their masters, whereas others had to make do with what they could find at home or, worse, on the battlefield. Some lords also relied on mercenaries - often roaming tribes of barbarians who fought for coin - to sharpen their forces with a battle-hardened edge.
Node Set Military Tier 6 |
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Unit experience: +1 for infantry unit recruits (faction_to_character_own_unseen)Requires | |
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Requires Technologies | Call on Vassals |
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Enables Units Upgrade |
Levy Spearmen
Cost 100 Upgrade To
Spearmen |
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