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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2023789" data-attributes="member: 463">Kigmatzomat - nice post on integrating a simple feudal model with modern/Roman ideas about what a professional military is.  <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=":)" />The following is from my high-level game.  I found that if you add on officer costs the military costs about 50% more than the base per-soldier cost.  Note that that base cost (12gp/month for standard infantryman) includes garrison food, board, new & repaired equipment etc (including horses for cavalry), the actual net pay the soldier get in his pocket each month would be maybe 2gp to spend on beer and (cheap) whores."For Trafalgis (NB quality troops are a bit cheaper in Trafalgis than in soft southern countries): Spearmen, light longspearmen and crossbowmen would be regular infantry; 18 gp/m heavy pike troops (inc greatswordsmen & halberdiers) and arbalesters would be elite infantry (due to training and equipment); 27gp/m huskarls (Fighter-Class, recruited from the minor nobility) would be elite foot knights and paid as heavy cavalry (28gp/m each base, 42gp/m inc leaders). Troops are expected to supply their own basic equipment or have the cost taken from their pay, but if you want particularly good equipment, especially plate armour, this would have to be paid for by you."</blockquote>

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