[quote=Iarumas]
Kad whats the policy on doing actions like levying troops or conscripting the masses? Can that be done?
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Recruiting new troops is done in the Growth Period. The option to conscript the masses is there, but it'd be a massive act of desperation or a massive gamble.

It can pay off, for example, in giving you lots of bodies to throw at a problem.
But it can also fail miserably, being untrained, they bring down the whole cohesion your army might have and if they break, they break en-mass.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. You have to weigh up the pros and cons.