Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-36683454-20190727110637/@comment-26553378-20190728133502

Both interesting ideas. I would probably edge away from banner bearers hiring out troops as they themselves are troops, not those who would train them. Miniquests having a chance to add troops to your army is a better idea, but it could still be a little odd, especially if it were a hobbit asking for pies for a party. I'd rather suggest conscription. By virtue of your reknown as a military mind and general as well as a little silver to compensate risk and lost time it would not be unreasonable to conscript and lout off the streets into your army. They would be cheap, untrained, and without any gear they wouldn't have normally (save perhaps a shoddy sword or spear), but as said, they would be cheap and plentiful. Conscription would be tracked through 4 variables: Conscripted units (last LotR week), Last Conscription (timer), Dismissed Conscriptions (all time), and Conscription Fatalities (all time). Those lost to strange quirks such as unloaded chunks would not be tracked as a dismissal or fatality. Should you conscript large amounts of units in a relatively short amount of time without the reputation civilians figure such action should require would cause a loss of alignment (not necissarily significant, it won't drop your title, but could go to title). More notably, large conscription fatalities as compared to conscription dismissals and your total hired will cause loss of alignment, this being able to drop you past a title, and able to cause *conscripted* units to desert you. Conscription dismissals would conversely recover any alignment lost due to conscription, and will make conscriptions more willing in the future.