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<blockquote data-quote="JamesDJarvis" data-source="post: 2343014" data-attributes="member: 2515">The U.S. had 16 million folks in the armed forces during WW2 but they were not all in service the entire war and they were not all combat troops.&nbsp; The structure of a nation during WW2 and a mediveal society are also profoundly different.A mediveal society coud probably maintain a satynding army somwehere under 1% of its total population.&nbsp; For a nation of 1,000,000 that is 10,000 standing men at arms.&nbsp;&nbsp; But in times of need and emergency may be capable of mustering 5% (or more) of the population for a number of weeks of troops drawn from private forces, yeomanry and peasantry. Some militanty&nbsp; societies could briefly muster forces as high as 20% of thier population bnut only for very short periods. Any mustering of forces in numbner is goingh to be a major economic issue for a classical medieval setting thaty will strip area of battle and routes armies march through of food. The availabnlity of food was the greatest limiting factor.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JamesDJarvis, post: 2343014, member: 2515"] The U.S. had 16 million folks in the armed forces during WW2 but they were not all in service the entire war and they were not all combat troops. The structure of a nation during WW2 and a mediveal society are also profoundly different. A mediveal society coud probably maintain a satynding army somwehere under 1% of its total population. For a nation of 1,000,000 that is 10,000 standing men at arms. But in times of need and emergency may be capable of mustering 5% (or more) of the population for a number of weeks of troops drawn from private forces, yeomanry and peasantry. Some militanty societies could briefly muster forces as high as 20% of thier population bnut only for very short periods. Any mustering of forces in numbner is goingh to be a major economic issue for a classical medieval setting thaty will strip area of battle and routes armies march through of food. The availabnlity of food was the greatest limiting factor. [/QUOTE]

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