Barracks

Barracks

Requires

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Enables

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Spawned Garrisons

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Basic Building Statistics (can be modified by difficulty level, arts, skills, traits and retainers)

  • Cost: 3800
  • Recruitment capacity (units in training): +1
  • -1 to happiness from modernisation

Clan Effects

  • +2 to modernisation (clan development)

Description

A roof. Regular food. Regular pay. Glory and honour!

A barracks allows the recruitment of modern units in a province. A roof over one's head and regular food are powerful incentives to join the army. Permanent barracks allow a standing army to be maintained in isolation from the civilian population, and any funny ideas that they may have about free speech or democracy. Even revolutionary armies quickly abandon one-man-one-vote as a way of creating discipline and deciding tactics when the bullets start flying. A permanent home for military units allows for a sense of identity, and for professionalism in the ranks, to develop.