Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

With the support of strong national power, combined with Orwell's own understanding of surrounding countries and wars, he can prescribe the right medicine - the Anglo-Saxons on the British Isles recruit pikemen and elite Viking-style sword and shield infantry, then he specializes in Organize training to completely target the opponent's troops, create weapons and equipment that can completely restrain the opponent, and ensure that you will always have an advantage on the frontal battlefield.

Recruiting pikemen should be countered by pikemen with better training and longer weapons. Orville is not afraid of those Viking-style sword and shield infantry. The Roman legionnaires themselves can handle it. They are professional soldiers with far better training and weapons. Above the other side, the Romans had accumulated considerable experience in hand-to-hand combat with heavy infantry on the Mediterranean coast, and were definitely much stronger than these Britons.

For this purpose, he specially ordered some legion brigades to be equipped with old-fashioned heavy javelins. Although this kind of javelin has a short range, it is completely designed for heavy infantry and their shields. As long as it hits the target, it will be either dead or injured. Now Just take it back and re-enable it.

Except for those extremely abstract weapons, most of the weapons deployed by the troops have special uses. In the cold weapon era, there are no outdated weapons, only suitable or inappropriate weapons. Sometimes old weapons are better than new weapons.

Improvements in cavalry are not easy to implement so far. There is a lack of sufficient war horse resources, and the cost of raising a heavy cavalry unit is too high. Orville currently does not have the financial resources, so he can only make do with errands first, like other The cavalry units led by generals were mainly mercenary cavalry and light cavalry units, and they accumulated technology and experimented with heavy cavalry.

Orville still pays more attention to the construction and expansion of long-range troops than the elite heavy cavalry troops that are rare to find.

Relatively speaking, the Romans did not pay much attention to crossbows. On the one hand, it was cultural factors, on the other hand, it was adapting to local conditions, and on the other hand, it was a matter of trade-offs. The golden three-piece set of legionary infantry was a dagger, a large shield, and a javelin. This set has been It has been proved that it is quite a panacea, and not only the Romans thought so, but also Qi Jiguang, a great Eastern country in later generations, also believed that sword and shield soldiers must be combined with spears, javelins and other weapons to maximize their effectiveness.

Weapons and equipment are more often a matter of trade-offs than whether I want them all. The choice the Romans made themselves was to tilt resources towards sword and shield infantry. This is related to their civil system, as well as complex factors such as cultural background and geographical environment. related.

Therefore, relatively speaking, their long-range troops are not very good. They are positioned more as auxiliary infantry rather than elite forces. When conditions are available, it is naturally the best. When conditions are not available, they can only use low-quality long-range troops to make ends meet and rely on legions. Soldiers or cavalry units have the final say.

Whether they are assigned to slingers, archers, harpooneers or others is often uncertain. Orville himself believes that this will bring great trouble to the military deployment of the legion commanders.

It's like a chef cooking. It's much easier to cook according to a set recipe than to improvise with random ingredients. It is obviously unrealistic to expect that the auxiliary troops of each province or allied country can bring various professional skills. But Orville can also make some improvements on his own side, such as training a group of standing or semi-standing long-range troops. Let the Romans realize how effective their elite ranged troops are.

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There were many problems in front of him, and Orville had time to deal with them. However, he was not in a hurry to do anything. Instead, he temporarily fell into silence, maintaining stability and order while carefully observing the situation and customs in various parts of Gaul.

The purpose of Vespa giving him the governorship of Tia was to train her ability to deal with problems, not to let her sit back and enjoy the success. Orville's current position is that of a tax officer and part-time interim governor of the province. It is not appropriate for him to do some things on his behalf. Going too far is too thorough. Do the things within the limit, and you can think of ways to deal with the remaining things, but you don't have to do too much. After all, he is filling in temporarily.

In addition to maintaining law and order and collecting indirect taxes such as trade taxes, inheritance taxes, and slave manumission taxes, Orville only did a few urgent things as tax collector and governor.

Attract Roman immigrants to Gaul, build the port of Caen, and simply reorganize the Gallic garrison.

In addition, he also did some things as a businessman. Needless to say, those hotels. He also tried to learn from the development experience of the Christian Church in some places.

Generally speaking, the Roman Empire still had strong control over cities, but not necessarily over rural areas. This was also a common problem in many empires in ancient times. This also gave the church room to develop. The holes in the rural governance structure gave them an opportunity to take advantage of.

Orville drew on their development experience, established temples of the goddess Minerva in some places in Gaul, and did other things in the name of the temples.

He asked the clergy to distribute some daily necessities such as wheat, wine, olive oil, and fish sauce during festivals. At the same time, he regularly organized activities such as "heart-to-heart talks" and "mutual aid meetings" in the name of God Minerva to encourage The clergy find ways to solve the problems encountered by local people in their lives, and also encourage local people to help each other and solve problems in mutual aid groups.

Strictly speaking, Minerva has a priesthood as the patron saint of the city. Orwell extended this concept to the national level and forcibly interpreted Minerva as the patron saint of the Roman Empire. Therefore, Minerva's believers also need to maintain the stability and order of the empire. However, since the starting point is good and it is not a smear, even Domitia, who is the most devout believer in Minerva, did not raise any opinions, but only acquiesced to Orwell's behavior.

Just assume that he, a half-way Roman, cannot tell the difference between Minerva and the Roman goddess. Since spreading faith in Gaul is in the interests of all Romans, it is acceptable to make some special explanations. There must be a reason to speak. The gods have almost no full-time priests, and the clergy are also state officials. Their attitudes are more pragmatic. In addition, Roman polytheism itself advocates rationality, and their acceptance of these things is higher than Orwell thought.

As to why monotheism replaced polytheism and became the state religion of the Roman Empire, the various analyses and understandings of later generations are extremely complicated, not much simpler than the decline of the Roman Empire itself. To be honest, Orville himself is not sure whether the eventual replacement of polytheism is a coincidence or a necessity, but this does not prevent him from doing something that is beneficial to him.

He does not care whether there will be people among the locals who spread the faith of the Eternal One, but he hopes that the locals will be assimilated by the Romans as soon as possible, so it is not complicated to assimilate the Gauls by borrowing the methods of Christianity in the future. It will not rise to the level of religious reform for the time being, at least he thinks so.