Requires
- Buildings:
Enables
- Buildings:
- Units:
Spawned Garrisons
- Units:
Basic Building Statistics (can be modified by difficulty level, arts, skills, traits and retainers)
- Cost: 1260
- +5 to repression in this province
- Recruitment capacity (units in training): +1
Description
They also serve who watch and wait.
The town watch serves to act as a central point to mobilize the people in defence of their homes, and as a potent reminder of the power of the local rulers over those same people. Local defence was a necessity, but peasants were never really expected to stand for long against samurai or other trained warriors. Peasants also could not be used for offensive actions, or sent away from their homes. At best, they could swell the numbers in an army, or the enemy would get tired out killing them before reaching the real defenders. This sounds harsh, but it was a foolish lord who allowed his entire population of strapping peasants to be slaughtered in battle. If this happened, who would gather the harvest?