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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 737806" data-attributes="member: 6533">Sweet, I was thinking that given their need for flexibility, transference of support units between militia companies, and need to train people in small units the Cressians would go for a highly divisible number for their base groupings.  So that the most basic Cressian unit consists of 15 fighting members, though some rare troop types will not commit the entire formation to battle so they may fight in units of 10, called a pack.  This is, except in the cases of Deltane border troops, an organizational unit.  The smallest garrison and marching unit will consist of no less than four of these groups, a kennel, and the smallest fighting unit will consist of 8, one or two of which will be packs from a sept, called a hunt.  Unless otherwise ordered the senior pack will be in command of any formation, with sept packs frequently being granted defacto seniority. Hunts are generally the largest normal formations.  Druids or sept leaders with several hunts at their command are called huntsmen and their commanders are Huntsmasters, though they most often prefer their ecclesiastical titles.  Seniority is determined through elaborate protocols, but once known is largely unquestionable.The small units take advantage of the fact that each village militia will probably have units of a variety of different experiences as they are likely to train generationally as well as the time and inclination to train men in small groups as opposed to all at once.  The manner in which the small units are then formed into larger formations allows the high command to integrate elite sept units into formations of militia without having to insert them artificially.  It also means that the Cressians can tailor their formations to specific need.  So that while the Ta'jinn are pretty much stuck with finding the right mix of troops in a wing and then subdividing it, the Cressians can decide that a particular situation requires a hunt made up of a mix of archers and heavy infantry with druid support and either use a mixture of kennels or just build it from the ground up.Plus it continues the Babylonian theme by making 60 their basic number.Love the basic composition Tonguez.  Thanks.</blockquote>

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