Recuitment question?

[Papewaio]

I like R:TW's system better although in my opinion I'd rather see the techtree system not being used at all for recruitment. Never have I read something like: "King Edward III did not have a Level 3 Spearmaker in Wessex. As a result his army was severly lacking Knights." I've seen this game mechanic too many times, it's time to move on, please.

You may want to review the rise of the Republic of France and how it was then able to conquour so much of Europe. It could be put like this.

"Napolean having access to Paris which was becoming one of the greatest arms producing cities in Europe allowed him the ability to field a well armed national force."

Nonetheless, in the 1780s, under the artillery service's aegis, the inventor Honor& Blanc set up a machine shop in the keep of the Chateau de Vincennes where he achieved the first interchangeable parts manufacture for muskets. Meanwhile, everywhere else in France military gun production collapsed and did not revive until the crisis of 1793. The republic's desperate struggle to massproduce weapons despite a severe shortage of gunsmiths led to the huge state-run Paris Arms Manufacture. Low-skill labor and radical politics determined production practices. Quantity superseded quality

Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815

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His remarkable series of military triumphs were a result of his ability to apply his encyclopedic knowledge of conventional military thought to real-world situations, as demonstrated by his creative use of artillery tactics, using it as a mobile force to support his infantry. As he described it: "I have fought sixty battles and I have learned nothing which I did not know at the beginning." Contemporary paintings of his headquarters during the Italian campaign depict his use of the world's first telecommunications system, the Chappe semaphore line, first implemented in 1792. He was also a master of both intelligence and deception and had an uncanny sense of when to strike. He often won battles by concentrating his forces on an unsuspecting enemy by using spies to gather information about opposing forces and by concealing his own troop deployments.

Upgarded tech... telecommunications, the use of spies etc