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Florentine Citizen Militia

florentine_citizen_militia

Machiavelli's argument against mercenary armies fell for generations on reluctant ears (the guilds preferred to pay condottieri than to march themselves) but the catastrophes of 1494 and 1512 demonstrated at ruinous cost what hired soldiers will and will not die for. We answer by organizing the men of our districts into standing companies, trained and equipped at public expense, whose stake in the defense of Florence is not a monthly wage but their own homes and trades. Arming our own citizens produces infantry that will hold when paid soldiers would retreat, a core of men who fight for something that cannot be renegotiated at the end of the campaign season.

RequiresPike and ShotAdvancerequires

Unlocks

Florentine Citizen MilitiaLevy

Conditions

Potential

Is or was Florence

Exact conditions

Advance tree

1. Pike and Shot
2. Florentine Citizen Militia

Modifiers

• Monthly Army Tradition+0.03

Connections

Requires 2

Advances

• Pike and ShotDiscoveryRequires

Countries

• FlorencePotential

Belongs to 1

• DiscoveryAge

Definitionin_game/common/advances/culture_tuscan.txt:165

age = age_3_discovery

icon = glorious_arms

▾potential = {

has_or_had_tag = FLO

}

monthly_army_tradition = 0.03

unlock_levy = levy_a_florentine_citizen_militia

requires = pike_and_shot_advance

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