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<blockquote data-quote="sword-dancer" data-source="post: 156488" data-attributes="member: 1491">It depends on the socio-economic organsation of your empire/enemies.You say it´s a very religious culture, depending on the religion you could muster a relative high percentage, but could you equip them, feed them, train them, and hold your economy running.How is it with logistics and support?An army marches on its stomach, most medival armies are supporting themselves through the chevachee, foraging, plundering and burning.Gods have mercy for such an army when they must retreat through the same route they had attacked.go to <a href="http://www.netsword.com" target="_blank">www.netsword.com</a> forums and look for BrockH&nbsp; s threads he had a good lore of medieval supply.SHARK You are wrong IMHO with the roman army.The republican army was a citizen army, a militia.They could replace their losses with other citizens.But that could the greeks also.After cannae the romans accepted or even recruited crminals and slaves to the legions.A roman army consisted of two legions of Raman citizens and the same number of allied inf.The allies had also to bring more cav than the romans.The romans had only a greater pool of reserves and most of their enemies were numerically inferior as the celtic tribes or had smaller merc armies.But the losses of the Varus defeat was never replaced by the legions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sword-dancer, post: 156488, member: 1491"] It depends on the socio-economic organsation of your empire/enemies. You say it´s a very religious culture, depending on the religion you could muster a relative high percentage, but could you equip them, feed them, train them, and hold your economy running. How is it with logistics and support? An army marches on its stomach, most medival armies are supporting themselves through the chevachee, foraging, plundering and burning. Gods have mercy for such an army when they must retreat through the same route they had attacked. go to [url]www.netsword.com[/url] forums and look for BrockH s threads he had a good lore of medieval supply. SHARK You are wrong IMHO with the roman army. The republican army was a citizen army, a militia. They could replace their losses with other citizens. But that could the greeks also. After cannae the romans accepted or even recruited crminals and slaves to the legions. A roman army consisted of two legions of Raman citizens and the same number of allied inf. The allies had also to bring more cav than the romans. The romans had only a greater pool of reserves and most of their enemies were numerically inferior as the celtic tribes or had smaller merc armies. But the losses of the Varus defeat was never replaced by the legions. [/QUOTE]

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