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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9253044" data-attributes="member: 23751">Not guard.  Militia.  A lot of able bodied men were given a minimum amount of training so that during wartime or an emergency, they could be called up to fight.  These are not the guards you mention, but additional men that are proficient in a few weapons.  They generally also had low morale, since they were not drilled constantly to fight and not run like soldiers and guards were.I saw numbers that some cities trained every able bodied man like that, so you'd see 10-20% of the population able to be called up in an emergency.  So going to that town of 1000, there would be 50-100 guards and another 100-200 militia.  That's IF it were one of the hardcore towns that trained EVERY able bodied man for the militia.  Many towns did not do that.</blockquote>