Requires
- Buildings:
Enables
- Buildings:
- Units:
Spawned Garrisons
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Basic Building Statistics (can be modified by difficulty level, arts, skills, traits and retainers)
- Cost: 2880
- +4 to repression in this province
- +10% to the replenishment rate in this province
- Recruitment capacity (units in training): +2
Description
Fighting is not enough. There must be obedience.
A barracks separates soldiers from the general populace, making it easier to train them and instil discipline, if only because civilians have funny ideas about deciding things for themselves. Ordinary men can be drilled and moulded into fighting warriors away from the comforts and distractions of any kind of home life. As well as recruiting new units, replacements for existing units can also be efficiently mustered and despatched to where they are needed. Every organised army in history does its best to keep its soldiers away from civilians, if only to keep desertion, drunkenness and debauchery at manageable levels! Even though life as a soldier is harsh, and never harsher than during training, it is often better than a life spent labouring in the fields. The work is hard, but then so is farming, and there is probably more chance that the new soldier, rather than the farmer, enjoys a hot meal at the end of his labours. There is danger, but then the same is true of working the land. A soldier, though, unlike the peasant, has a chance of making his fortune and changing his fate.