Settlement Overview - Military
A settlement normally maintains professional troops as well as having lots of well equipped and trained citizens for emergencies. This is due to the cost of maintaining large amounts of professional troops. It is for this reason that Adventurers are able to succeed in many of their actions when carrying out quick precise actions, but Adventurers run the risk of meeting a professional patrol or several proficient citizens.
Apart from the Settlement Officials the other Organisations normally only have small amounts of professional troops on hand at any one time, and often have to make arrangements with the Settlement Officials to loan troops in emergencies.
Crisis: If resources are not continually spent on the military then substandard equipment, low troop morale, deserters and poor quality troops will eventually become the norm. A settlement with this problem has to rely more and more on the average citizen filling in when an emergency occurs; this course will often end up with bad results and high troop deaths. In the long term it is likely the settlement will be over-run by conquerors, or even 'concerned' neighbours, and even if no outsiders invade it is likely a rebellious/power-hungry group could take control of the settlement.
Poor: At this stage a settlement could be having problems, as mentioned above, but it likely only has a few of them so with some work things could be brought to a more satisfactory level.
Satisfactory: A settlement with a well-equipped and trained army often has enough troops to send out task forces to attend to situations elsewhere in the world. The streets of the settlement are normally well patrolled resulting in a safer settlement, which has a good effect on business and morale.
Good: At this stage it is likely troop morale is good; equipment is of a reasonable quality with some spares. A settlement with a good military standing is more likely to produce and maintain better troops.
Outstanding: Even with poor fortifications a well-equipped and trained army with good morale can convincingly win battles. It is possible that a settlement with lots of excellent trained and equipped troops can use them as elite mercenaries or go on epic campaigns, but these both demand lots of resources to be continually pumped into maintaining the troops.
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