In CK2, there really isn't much of a penalty for raising levies. Yes, your vassals will be unhappy and it cost some amount of money to maintain the levies in the field. But there is no actual manpower penalty cost to deploying your farmers in the field. In the pre-modern era, the bulk of a kingdom's economic wealth comes from agriculture. Farmers are the means in which kingdoms generate prosperity.
So even if you have a very well trained and equipped levy, that cost isn't going away. They work well if you are engaging in a short campaign, or if you are fighting a defensive war where your levies are fighting close to their homes, but it's not really ideal to muster your levy for a crusade. Your levies' farms will go to waste if it is uncultivated for too long, and even if their farms are bought over by others, it will enrich the nobility at the expense of the farmers.
Is CK3 going to implement some measures that sees manpower as the wealth of the kingdom? In order to increase your wealth, you need to ensure you have as large of a tax base as possible. More farmers working in the fields = more taxable income from the lands that is cultivated. The food produced by a kingdom should be the primarily means of wealth in a pre-modern kingdom. You can't build massive cities if you don't have enough farmers feeding the cities.
It's why Egypt was so lucrative in the ancient and medieval world, because it is much easier to feed cities if you have the Nile river helping to boost productivity of the land and allowing you to export excess grain to other parts of the world.
So even if you have a very well trained and equipped levy, that cost isn't going away. They work well if you are engaging in a short campaign, or if you are fighting a defensive war where your levies are fighting close to their homes, but it's not really ideal to muster your levy for a crusade. Your levies' farms will go to waste if it is uncultivated for too long, and even if their farms are bought over by others, it will enrich the nobility at the expense of the farmers.
Is CK3 going to implement some measures that sees manpower as the wealth of the kingdom? In order to increase your wealth, you need to ensure you have as large of a tax base as possible. More farmers working in the fields = more taxable income from the lands that is cultivated. The food produced by a kingdom should be the primarily means of wealth in a pre-modern kingdom. You can't build massive cities if you don't have enough farmers feeding the cities.
It's why Egypt was so lucrative in the ancient and medieval world, because it is much easier to feed cities if you have the Nile river helping to boost productivity of the land and allowing you to export excess grain to other parts of the world.
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