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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 754449" data-attributes="member: 1125">A. Yuan Empire (Mongol Empire at its height)1 A large standing army divided into Units(Tuman) of 10 - 100 -1000. Each member of a Unit is equal but each 1000 is lead by its own 'Khan'  and the whole army is lead by the Great Khan TegruChildren are all trained to use weapons and the army is considered an honoured career choice - better than being a scribe) but less than being Shaman (Druid) or Cleric (the most honoured profession is that of Farmer<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)2 No ranks generally except for Khan and Great Khan3 PCs are often military personel either as a Special Forces Unit in their own right (with an NPC Khan) or PCs have been leaders of Units (with the Unit effectively a set of stat bonuses)B. Kingdom of Anziko 1. Small Standing Army which comprises the Royal Guard. Each Village and Clan is semi-autonomous and has its own lord (referred to as a Ras) and each Lord can be called upon to provide troops to either defend itself or to support the Negus (King) - it is in the best interest of clans to have some trained warriors as those who neglect this area can not effectively defend themselves.2. Not developed but Warrior (infantry) - Sekh (Knight) - Ras (Lord) - Negus (King)3. PCs never really had much contact with the millitary other than the Royal Guard and a few processions when Ras Benari rode an Elephant to the City with 300 Horse-Knights in tow3. Hawaiki - Mythical Polynesia1. No standing armies each village defends itself from attack and makes raids as required. All are trained in use of arms and raiding parties are lead by a chief. Related Villages  (ie Tribes) do sometimes work togehter and form a larger war party of about 140 (this is a large army)2. No ranks except Warrior and Chief (and Priest/Shaman)3. Military doesn't exist except as a function of village life so PCs participate if and when required within the life of the village (eg the PCs village has been attacked in the past and they were forced to fight)</blockquote>

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