Supply, soldiers and debt
Armies that eat horses, weapons and leather; soldiers who mutiny when unpaid; and credit crises when lenders lose faith.
- Area
- War and diplomacy
- Stage
- In design
- Kind of change
- New system
War should be expensive in the way it was. Armies draw on supply lanes that consume goods by unit type, so wars move prices. Unpaid troops are a soldiers’ estate whose discontent can end in mutiny. A state whose credit runs out faces a crisis with choices short of outright default.