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Armies are the backbone of the military organisation. They allow better command and communications structures, and a realm should strive to use the army system as best as possible, if it wants to be successful on the battlefield.

Army Sponsors

In a medieval world, every army is sponsored by a noble, usually a lord or government member. New armies can be created at any time, for a small sum of gold. The army sponsor can choose the army marshal (and change him at any time), and he can dissolve the army if he so chooses. He is also the only one who can put money into the army war chest.


Marshal

The marshal is in charge of the army, but serves underneath the general of the realm. He can choose offensive and defensive automatic deployment formations (A.K.A. Marshal Settings) to use in battle, and can update the standing orders. Along with these things he has the most direct authority over that army.

War Chest

Every army has a war chest, (hopefully) filled with gold. The function of the war chest is to allow the army to operate better, by sharing the financial burden of troop maintenance. As long as there is gold in the war chest, half of what members of the army pay for training and repairs will be paid out of the war chest.


Communications

In addition to the standing orders, every knight who is assigned to an army also has additional messaging options in his normal Messages page, to contact all or some members of his army.


Assignment

The liege lord of every knight decides which army to dispatch him or her to. While this might sound weird at first, it is actually very logical - after all, the knight has pledged his services to the liege, and assignment to an army is simply military service.