For example spear militia requires you to have gambesons. At the moment you if you don't have the necessary equipment - you can't train more advanced units. This again concerns mainly militia units. This would be cool because you could see all the peasants training together. I could however go for a more traditional rts style - when a war happens you click on the training grounds to train the unit. This marks them as 'trained' either for melee or for archery, and your pool of 'trained peasants' is bigger. If you have training grounds, peasants go to train in their 'free time'. It's certain that more advanced militia units should require training. You can see the proposed lineup here and make comments: This now looks very weird to me to see them mixed up, so I'm trying to narrow down the time frame (judging from the material I've released so far XIV century would probably fit best). However not everyone would upgrade the tech at the same pace (or, at all). The original idea was to have a mix - weak units would be influenced by norman style armour, later as you upgrade the tech they would get more modern.

Thanks for joining the discussion! Here are some of the problems I'm trying to solve:

Mount and blade training peasants