Marshal

Marshal

• The Marshal is in command of a sub part of the main army. Each city is entitled to have a Marshal designated for their city, and each Duchy under that city falls under the command of that Marshal. Every Troop Leader in alleigance with that Marshal, or regions swarn to that city are all under the command of that Marshal.

• The Marshal has the options to take command of his army. Depending on his leadership skills, this can be a good thing, or devistating in combat. The Marshal should be chosen carefully. As the marshal of the army of (whatever city you command), you regularily meet the command staff in the planning tent, where you can review and change your settings for the next battles. Note that these settings will only go into effect if you take command in the battle, which depends on your leadership skills, army sizes present and a few other factors, including a bit of luck.

• A Marshal has the ability to asses his army, by viewing their current status. How ready they are, their combat strength, their unit size and where they are. Readiness is a rough estimate of how much more combat the unit can take before suffering serious consequences. It takes into account morale, equipment damage, cohesion and how many of the men are wounded.

• A Marshal also has the ability to set command staff settings. This allows him to make line settings for his entire reporting crew. You can choose on offense to set it to "Infantry Chage, Cavalry Charge or Archer Opening, or leave it unspecified. For Defensive settings, you are able to set it to Fortification Deploy, wall deploy or leave it unspecified. Depending on our experience as a leader, you may or may not be able to take charge of the army.

• You can also issue a standing order. A standing order is simply a short text that all troop leaders in your army will see as the first message in their message list whenever they read their messages. In other words: It saves you the trouble of repeating the same order again and again.