Hello All,
A while back I had bought the Kingmaker series and the Book of River Nations, and while that campaign died, I still love the kingdom building aspects. I am looking through my copy of Ultimate Campaign at the improvements, specifically the kingdom and army building sections, when I noticed something off.
I noticed that the book said you can create and run armies, and notes in the kingdom section what page to go to, but the army section deals more with running them than building them.
Specifically, where is the calculation for creating, not maintaining, an army and are there any limitations like in Kingmaker or Book of River Nations about either the number of armies by kingdom size, or their needing to be built in a settlement? The kingdom section says go to mass combat, and the mass combat section tells you that, as a ruler, you can raise armies, but I can't find the creation cost. Everything else is fine, just in order to raise an army, I don't know if it needs to be in a settlement, or or how much to create them.
This led me to another pair of kingdom questions: firstly, can you make a kingdom with no settlements? By just building improvements, you cover thorps and villages in a way. Secondly, can you build hex improvements that can be stacked in the same square as a settlement? Both of these were not possible in the old rules, but I think having an agrarian farmer nation or nomad's territory interesting, or more compact city states with farms and roads and canals and aqueducts in the same plain hex.
Any clarification would be appreciated,
Horizonblue