The Mamluk Institution
Slave supply, the Royal Mamluks and the households' cohesion: the self-renewing slave-soldier system that ruled Egypt and Syria.
- Area
- Estates and the state
- Stage
- In testing
- Kind of change
- New system
- Dev diaries
- #4
The situation follows three bars, each with five tiers:
- Slave Supply: slaves in the Sultan’s market against what it can hold, bought on the Black Sea and in Constantinople. A short supply makes the army dearer to keep.
- Royal Mamluks: the Sultan’s own regiments against 10,000 men. His legitimacy stems from the army: a weak corps drains legitimacy and crown power.
- Khushdashiyya: the households’ cohesion, the mamluk estate’s satisfaction. Strife costs stability and political influence.
Around the bars sit a new mamluk estate, a succession law in which only the Great Emirs can rule, and the decision every new sultan faced: what to do with his predecessor’s mamluks.
The Mamluk Institution
The Sultan's modifiers
No modifiers: every bar sits in a neutral tier.
Values from build v0.14, not yet tested in game, so they may change. Only the top tier of each bar gives a bonus; the one below it is neutral.
