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DF Suggestions / Re: Noblemen in the Military
« on: July 31, 2012, 09:15:30 pm »There is NO way a fortress of 10-40 dwarves could support an actual noble in the militia. Currently, as the name suggests, the "militia" best represents a group of armed and trained civilians who fight for their home and friends and stuff. Once forts can actually make armies, presumably real nobles would lead them.
That's not to suggest that a noble coudn't be among those trained civilians who fights for his home and his land because he has to. We can have aristocratic nobles without having an army, and those nobles can already be drafted into the militia. So yes, there is a way for a fortress of 10-40 dwarves to support an actual noble in the militia.
Perhaps in the case of the militia, we won't necessarily have knights and such. Maybe that'll act like it does currently, although the noble may be unhappy about being drafted into a commoner's militia. In the case of an army arriving though then perhaps we can get into the whole royal guard, pomp and all that.
Well, first off, while a noble might be in the military, he wouldn't expect a horse or anything more than a small fortress could be expected to make, or really anything more than a non-military noble plus a militiadwarf would get.
As to the second part: We need distinctions between part-time militias, full-time militias (cheesemakers and such that are training), and an actual military before we can worry about how nobles would feel about being part of a militia.
Other than that, pretty good points.
