Info about the Barbarian Recruitment

[The Stranger]

i've been working on a Recruitment and Maintenance Cost layout. i'm done with the civilised way of recruiting (byzantines) and paying but i dont know how the vikings and franks, etc did it.

did they payed for the warriors equipment or did they payed them themselves.
did they got land in return or moeny. it's very important. were they trained by the goverment or not.


Maintaincost
food = 0.25 per man (pricecan be discussed)
pay = it varies per unit (nobles are mostly pretty expensive)

Recruitment cost
weapons = price varies per unit (high quility weapons are more expensive)
armour = varies per armour type and quality
training = highly trained = 1 per man per turn
trained = 0.5 per man per year
untrained = 0
horses = 3 per horse


if they are recruited by the goverment you have to pay a recruit cost, if not you dont, but that automaticly increases the maintenance cost cuz they'll prolly ask might or land in return for their service.