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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5597172" data-attributes="member: 463">If this settlement of 1500 is self-ruling and has to look to its own defence then I think every able-bodied adult male will need to be a warrior, and I'd stat them as such as per 3e DMG, which AIR says that &quot;in harsh lands where conflict is common&quot; the bulk of able-bodied adult males will be Warrior-1s not Commoner-1s.&nbsp; My model here would be the smaller city states of Classical Greece.&nbsp; Middle-class citizens who can provide heavy arms &amp; armour will serve as infantry.&nbsp; The wealthiest who can afford horses will serve as a small cavalry detachment.&nbsp; The poor will have slings, darts etc and serve as skirmishers - as they're free men defending their own land they'll be a lot more reliable than feudal peasantry or serfs forced to serve as disposable spear infantry.&nbsp; I'd suggest maybe:10% wealthy - Light cavalry.50% middle class - Heavy infantry.40% poor - Skirmishers.This model was quite widespread, and could combine with feudalism (peasants support a heavy cavalry warrior class) in a mixed society, as opposed to the purer feudalism of medieval France.&nbsp; In Ireland the Skirmishers were called Kerns.&nbsp; In Germanic tribal societies the middle class were Landsmenn, the Thrall serfs sometimes fought as spear-carriers along feudal lines.&nbsp; In feudal England some middle class free men survived as the Yeomen, noted for their command of the Bill as well as eventually the Longbow.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 5597172, member: 463"] If this settlement of 1500 is self-ruling and has to look to its own defence then I think every able-bodied adult male will need to be a warrior, and I'd stat them as such as per 3e DMG, which AIR says that "in harsh lands where conflict is common" the bulk of able-bodied adult males will be Warrior-1s not Commoner-1s. My model here would be the smaller city states of Classical Greece. Middle-class citizens who can provide heavy arms & armour will serve as infantry. The wealthiest who can afford horses will serve as a small cavalry detachment. The poor will have slings, darts etc and serve as skirmishers - as they're free men defending their own land they'll be a lot more reliable than feudal peasantry or serfs forced to serve as disposable spear infantry. I'd suggest maybe: 10% wealthy - Light cavalry. 50% middle class - Heavy infantry. 40% poor - Skirmishers. This model was quite widespread, and could combine with feudalism (peasants support a heavy cavalry warrior class) in a mixed society, as opposed to the purer feudalism of medieval France. In Ireland the Skirmishers were called Kerns. In Germanic tribal societies the middle class were Landsmenn, the Thrall serfs sometimes fought as spear-carriers along feudal lines. In feudal England some middle class free men survived as the Yeomen, noted for their command of the Bill as well as eventually the Longbow. [/QUOTE]

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