PvP mechanics brainstorming thread

[Vladimir]

You’ve misinterpreted my entire post.

Free upkeep troops are poor troops, so I don't think it addresses the issue that motivated discussion of this topic - the desire to model genuine civil wars, rather than military coups. In most civil wars I know of, most of the combatants were levied during the war. The early Iraqi Freedom was not a civil war. The insurgents in the more civil war like later Iraqi Freedom were "units" that did not exist when Iraq was invaded.

The point is that the US went in with an army unprepared for the fighting they encountered and weren’t able to use consol commands or wait X amount of turns to train additional forces to attack. That is merely an example.

I’m not concerned with civil wars you or anyone else know of. I’m concerned with civil wars in LTC Gold. My belief is that if a noble wishes to start a civil war he does so with the troops he has direct control over. No drama.

The free upkeep troops are to protect the settlement while the avatar and his army are away.

This is a brainstorming thread - there's no obligation to waste any of your time reading it. When we have identified the best solution or clear options, Zim or a poll will decide. As I said, I think we are nearly done.

How much time will the GM, Senchel/Chancellor thingy, or whoever, waste with a lot of monkeying around? If you want them to be able to raise troops, let them use an in-game function: Mercenaries.

You're too deep in the weeds on this one.