man power:
lets say your city is 10000 inhabitants
50% are man (assuming the natural laws), so we have 5000 man
of those 5000 man, 60% are fit for battle (excluding old people and youngsters)
so now we have 3.000 man fit for battle and recruiment
out of those 3.000, their training is divided into:
1- 2000 are normal trained
2- 700 are professional trained
3- 300 are expert trained
info: the man training is divided into the time they've been fit for training and the time they've been training (so the time they've been training = time they havent yet been recruited while being fit), each of the 1,2,3 is a sequence, over time they progress to the next level as they train.. this is just an hypotetical ''how will it work'', as CA can easly create an algorithm that calculates all that
info 2- note that as the population increases, the available man also increases exponensially (sp?)
as they are recruited, the population decreases just like in RTW
but back to the man available
those normal trained man if recruited as they are at that moment, they can ONLY be recruited as LEVIES, since that's the level they've been trained for, so they'll consist in the mass of the army, pikeman, archers.. etc
the professional man if recruited, will be used only as the best of the normal troops, so they would be like the heavier infantry with better armour.. etc
the expert man will be the best of the best, the samurais and such
so lets say you recruit 1 samurai, and 4 levies (assuming each unit needs 100 man [for easy comprehension]
the normal trained man will decrease from 2000 to 1600
and the expert traine man will descrease from 300 to 200
the overall man available is now 2500
the training could be something like:
each turn, normal trained is increased by 10% out of the total of not yet in training population (we had 5000, 3000 of them were already fit for battle [training], so it would be 10% out of those rest of 2000, the youngsters that have reached the proper age)
the professional trained man would increase 5% out of the normal trained man (these ones decrease their number in favor for the professional trained) so out of the 3000 normal trained man, 150 will be upgraded for the professional trained (professional trained will now be 750+150, and normal trained has decreased by 150, now having 1850, although their numbers would have increased each turn as said above)
expert man would be, let's say 2% of the professional, so if the professionals are 750, the next turn they would decrease by 15, while the experts would 300+15)