General

[DragoonXXIV]

Actually shifty, i'm not positive but i think that you can't train units in under a turn, plus if you could mobilize your entire population you can essentially strip a city of it's inhabitants and make it useless to capture. And while peasents don't need very much training (maybe a week to show 'em which is the pointy end) you still have to make the spears and get a officer to lead 'em and feed them and all the other logistical problems assosicatied with large armies. In truth i like the idea of quickly training them but i think it's unfeasible.

[TigerVX]

Actually, you can make them train in 0 turns. You still have to end the turn for them to produce, but you can make all 9 in one turn. Again, you can't train your entire populus since there is a limit of 9 training slots for you to use, so the max of men you could train is 9 peasents each turn.

[DragoonXXIV]

Ah, sorry, forgot about the 9 cap on training, still you can use it to migrate a chunk of the population.

[RedSilver]

Just wondering how you Family Tree will work, are you going for Vanilla's style (your ruling family's er..well..family.) or maybe something new?

[Lief]

I like the peasant idea. That way you could quickly draft a large, albeit weak and low morale army to fight way. Or, you can use it to abandon a city and migrate to one of your other cities.

[hoggy]

Peasant idea sounds good, we could give it a go and playtest it. Not sure about plans for the family yet I've not really thought about it, i guess it depends what would work best for all the factions.

[wlesmana]

I like the ability to mobilize your peasants for defense.
To limit their use and the zerging tactic, what if their salary is really, really large making it unfeasible to train 9 of them and keep them for the next turn? So they'd get trained up in an emergency, then before the turn is up, they'd have to be disbanded.