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Thread: Yet another Sweboz question!
Seems this has grown into quite a thread. Lots of Philogermanoi here, it seems. No problems there, I am part-Germanos myself too. So things are good. I guess 
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Personally, I just assume the "generation cycle" in any given unit happens behind the scenes and is in part accounted for in the upkeep costs.
It would also seem to me like rather strange to up and disband "militia" units when they're not in use. Such troops, after all, more or less represent the forces the region (ie. settlement in game terms) can mobilise on reasonable notice if needed, say to deal with a random enemy attack (eg. some random Eleutheroi stack deciding to lay siege to the settlement). Such tribal warbands don't take the better part of a year to call up (as happens if you "re-recruit" them for every campaign), obviously, and doubly so if it's for "home defense".
Improved economic infrastructure allowing the maintenance of an increasing number of such "part-time" tribal warriors can then be thought of as an abstract representation of the increased prosperity of the region enabling more and more men to own the necessary equipement and if need be leave their "day jobs" for a while to fight, growing population just plain enabling the mobilisation of larger numbers, and the spreading influence and growing wealth of the rulers enabling them to better and more efficiently tap the available manpower pool...
Of course, if you want to RP it you should obviously try to return the warriors to their home regions once the campaign is over; with the more "generic" units this is probably best done by keeping track of the general size of a given settlement's contribution and duly returning a like number of units (or thereabouts, depending on what casualty rates were like...) there - it being after all a bit difficult to keep track of where a given unit of Skutjantz or generic Dugunthisomethings originated from...
Easier with the "tribe-specific" ones like Chatti and Chauci troops, obviously.
It would also seem to me like rather strange to up and disband "militia" units when they're not in use. Such troops, after all, more or less represent the forces the region (ie. settlement in game terms) can mobilise on reasonable notice if needed, say to deal with a random enemy attack (eg. some random Eleutheroi stack deciding to lay siege to the settlement). Such tribal warbands don't take the better part of a year to call up (as happens if you "re-recruit" them for every campaign), obviously, and doubly so if it's for "home defense".
Improved economic infrastructure allowing the maintenance of an increasing number of such "part-time" tribal warriors can then be thought of as an abstract representation of the increased prosperity of the region enabling more and more men to own the necessary equipement and if need be leave their "day jobs" for a while to fight, growing population just plain enabling the mobilisation of larger numbers, and the spreading influence and growing wealth of the rulers enabling them to better and more efficiently tap the available manpower pool...
Of course, if you want to RP it you should obviously try to return the warriors to their home regions once the campaign is over; with the more "generic" units this is probably best done by keeping track of the general size of a given settlement's contribution and duly returning a like number of units (or thereabouts, depending on what casualty rates were like...) there - it being after all a bit difficult to keep track of where a given unit of Skutjantz or generic Dugunthisomethings originated from...
Easier with the "tribe-specific" ones like Chatti and Chauci troops, obviously.
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