[Discuss] Lords and Armies

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 1 Jul 2008 at 11:50, psymann wrote:

> 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).

Yes, they can.

> 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?

A lord joins an army because he wants to do so.

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

A Duke and ruler join an army because they want to do so.

> 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?

The ruler/duke/lord follow the army of their own volition. They go where they 
want to go, when they want to. The smart ones realize that following along with 
the army just happens to be the smart thing to do.


-- 
Rob

Never stand between a fire hydrant and a dog.




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