[Discuss] Lords and Armies

[psymann]

One thing I'm not really sure about at the moment, and hoping someone 
can help me with:

We have these armies in each realm.  My understanding is that knights 
are placed in the armies by their lords as part of the knight's oath to 
a lord.  ie Lord says "Here, have some tax gold" and knight says 
"Thanks, and in return I will manage my estate to benefit your region 
and fight for you in the army".

So therefore, the first thing I think is that nobles with no oaths would 
never have reason to join the army.  And I think that fits with the game 
as I don't think you can join an army without having a lord first 
(though not sure whether those people with 0% oaths can be put in an 
army - I'd assume that they can't).

But then what confuses me is why would a Lord end up in an army?  To 
whom are they committed to provide a service, that causes them to be in 
the army?  Their Duke, perhaps?

But then why would a Duke ever end up in the army?  Or a ruler?

 From what I can see, being in the army is a service you provide to your 
lord.  So since the ruler doesn't have a lord, why would they ever be in 
an army?

It's all a bit confusing.

And then, once you have rulers and lords in an army, being ordered 
around by simple knights, it becomes yet more confusing - it makes 
little sense to me for a ruler to be being ordered around, yet it also 
makes little sense to me for a member of the army not to be ordered 
around by its marshal.  So when a marshal is a simple knight and the 
army contains the lord/duke/ruler, how does this work?

psymann


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