[quote=@VitaVitaAR]
Um, think they should maybe be a bit more unified, at least enough that they're more willing to fund a standing military. If all they really have is a calvary then they miss out completely on some of the cool stuff we talked about before.
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By 'standing military' I mean 'there is no unified army across the whole empire'. The military situation is very much based on the HRE's decline (though in this case it's just that there [i]was[/i] no real unity to start with), with the 'elite' stuff coming from being based on the ERE.

Plus standing armies as a whole went out of fashion in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire for the most part and didn't come back until after the medieval period for a variety of reasons, so it's not unreasonable to have the interesting stuff without a permanent force.