This is the fourth part ( I, IIa, IIb, III ) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized. We’ve talked about how armies ar...
In reply to Mark Magagna. It also has an interesting place in American historical politics. Its late 18th century statesmen wanted their new polity to run on an entitlement-based self-equipping model...
In reply to Arilou. If you have time there's the advantage of being able to sell to town militias and local big men looking to fit their own troops, but you still run into the problem of having to of...
In reply to Tracy W. This also works for why your players should come up with characters who generally try to cooperate. Sure it will be really fun for a bit to be a too cool for school lone wolf whi...
In reply to Kaiphranos. While liturgies don't really happen any more, Bret's above framework does give an interesting way to look at modern philanthropy. Basically, instead of going through the effor...
This is the third part ( I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In the ...