Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26065062-20150923125350

This suggestion is about adding new units to certain factions called militia. These would be regular farmers, merchants, etc. and would be hireable from a faction commander from Gondor, Rohan, Harad, Rhun (when its added), Beornings, Dale (again for these two, when added), Rangers of the North (there are still a few villages in Eriador that contain normal people, but they are few and often needing to protect themselves from raiders), Dorwinion (again, when added) and all dwarves. Some militia would be stronger than others, and some would have varrying equipment, namely the dwarves which would have a piece or two of their faction armour and then random scraps. All of the militia would have random pieces of their own faction gear, leather, regular iron, bronze, warg fur and rarely scraps of the gear of other factions, depending on their faction. They would mostly use daggers and tools such as axes, pickaxes and shovels, sometimes swords and/or spears and rarely bows, as bows are very expensive and so are arrows, compared to swords and daggers and spears. They would also rarely ride boars or horses, except for Rohan, in which roughly half of them would ride horses. They would be very cheap and very numerous.

Also, commanders should work like traders, you can only buy this many troops ffor a while, because commanders dont have an infinite amount of troops, nor are there an infinite amount of troops to hire from. This would all depend on the commander's faction and the type of troops. Militia would be the most common troop type, average soldiers would be the second most common, and elite soldiers would be the rarest. 