Quote Originally Posted by MadKow
Would make both historical and more challenging, for siege defense, to have a proportion of the population take up arms and join the defenders. These would be low rank militia, of course, equiped with what was available in town, bows, spears, etc...

I guess numbers would have to be tweaked... but as a concept is seems to make sense. This would also make it impossible just to walk into a undefended settlement. Of course, with no standing army a static siege would be shorter, perhaps.
Now there's a good idea! That would really help the AI out.