Recruiting elites in EB2.

[Watchman]

True regular "national" armies as we have today didn't really start turning up before around... late 1600s, IIRC mah books. I recall reading the Brandenburgians (later better known as Prussians) were around the first to get the idea rolling for real. (We may also note that on the end of the Thirty Years' War several field armies - as per the norm of the day, mercenaries - went rogue and had to be destroyed by their former paymasters and/or the owners of the unlucky locales they were currently in; "now that it's peace, what are *we* going to do?")

[Constantius III]

True regular "national" armies as we have today didn't really start turning up before around... late 1600s, IIRC mah books. I recall reading the Brandenburgians (later better known as Prussians) were around the first to get the idea rolling for real. (We may also note that on the end of the Thirty Years' War several field armies - as per the norm of the day, mercenaries - went rogue and had to be destroyed by their former paymasters and/or the owners of the unlucky locales they were currently in; "now that it's peace, what are *we* going to do?")

Louisian state commission army probably fits in there too, and maybe the Swedish indelning system? Both were about roughly the same time as Friedrich Wilhelm...but yeah, second half of the 17th century.

[a completely inoffensive name]

I am posting here because I agree with Cyclops that the guy sounds like a troll, a good one too. Also, if this is the next bartix I want to be in here so I can look back when this is linked in the distant future.

@future ACIN: Quick look behind you! Just kidding.

Also I want the EB team to reconsider the decision to have all Seleucid troops be on elephants, because now I can't afford being the Seleucid and I can't have full stacks of elite calvary anymore which is unrealistic because in the Seleucid empire there was a lot of land so 1 out of every 2.2 people had a horse out of necessity.

[Foot]

And what a lovely discussion this was. However, as it appears that we are heading down the road of needless insults, I think I'll just close this baby down.

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