The MTW challenge thread.

[The Unknown Guy]

those types of units are not part of a paid standing army and as such wouldn't have actually cost the ruling monarch anything.

they would have costed land (althrough in some cases they were hired as mercs and paid in cash, eg: the "free companies" in Italy, or the Spanish tercios later during Renaisse). In any event, since land-granting doesn´t get represented inside the game, imho, to "symbolize" those units they should be made them prohibitive (as in: the feudal lord loses the revenues of a significant part of a province, which now go to his knights instead)