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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TanisFrey" data-source="post: 5920023" data-attributes="member: 26948">Peasant Levies were used at times.  Medieval commanders did prefer to use real soldiers when they could be had.  A friend likes to quote a report of a battle between two barons in Medieval England, they reported to the king a loss of 4 knight on one side and something like 6 on the other.  The church objects to the fact that nigher side reports the 2-3 hundred peasant who died.Medieval commanders did summon peasant levies to back up an army or as a way to tax the nobles.  The English crown goes to war to defend its Norman holdings from France.  The crown call for peasant levies.  Those levies in Normandy would help fight, those levies in England would report to their noble lord and receive a small amount of coin and send some of that coin to the crown which would use the tax to hire a real army to do the fighting. If I had to give 3.x levels to troops:Magic using:Peasant levies: commoner  1 - 3 (a small number will have multi classed with a 1-2 levels of warrior if there is a lot conflicts between lesser nobles in the area)Soldiers/Guard Warrior: 1 - 5Squire: Fighter 1-4Knight: Fighter 5+Modern: (for out of basic and their first Advanced school for US/Western troops)Non-western Troop: warrior 1-7US/Western support troops:  Warrior 2 plus Expert 2US Infantry: Fighter 4 with weapon focus M-16Western Infantry: Fighter 2-4Special Forces: Fighter 5-10+</blockquote>