Quote Originally Posted by Brandy Blue
The Byzantine Emperor would be the only Christian ruler who could afford to have a standing army, never mind a standing army partly made up of expensive mercinaries.
One of the things that makes my subconcience go "you're playing a game" is fielding medieval units as standing armies year after year, all year.

I do suppose that one could justify this by concluding that the "one year turn" does not assume everything is taking one year, but the events modeled occur at some point in the given year. Therefore, a unit of - say spearmen - would be fulfilling their feudal obligation to their lord over a few months rather than being in the field all twelve months.

This would also help suspend the disbelief of a fleet of ships being out in the middle of the North Atlantic for 10 years