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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 1180339" data-attributes="member: 9254">I forgot to mention the number of units each noble could rally.  Barons have 3-12 villages (12 villages really means a town or city) meaning they have 3-12 squads + their personal retinue with the norm being 7 squads total.Counts generally have 3-6 barons reporting and have personal holdings equivalent to one or two large baronies (10-30 villages).  A count can rally ~20 squads and his personal retinue.  He can call on ~30 addditional squads through the barony. Dukes will have ~4 counts and will control a count's worth of personal territory.  so 30 private squads and up to 100 subordinate squads.  Marquis/Prince/Low King have ~3 dukes and their own dukedom; 40 private squads and 300 subordinate squads.  High King/Emperors will have 3-6 Princes and their own princedom for 50 private squads and 1500 subordinates.  This gives a High King about ~23,000 troops he can call up and a likely populace of a half million (~5% troops).  Remember that of that 5% the vast majority are only soldiers for 3 months out of the year so it really isn't one person in twenty walking around in armor.  Once you begin conscripting people the numbers get huge.  IIRC, the hundred years war had armies of up to 100,000 on each side, though they were rarely at any one place.</blockquote>