[PhilD]

Originally posted by Jasper:
I agree. It's silly for the standing army of a nation to be roughly what one could recruit in one or two months. Plus, some of the nations starting forces really seem much better than others.

Another thought is to tie the size of the opening army to the strength of independents.

The way I see the story, each Province is a little like a small nation, all of them having their relatively small standing armies. Then all of a sudden, 17 nations are taken over by these upstart Pretender Gods, and all hell breaks loose as they start conquering the world in an attempt to kill the others (and, in many cases, destroy the whole thing as they ascend).

In this light, it would indeed make sense for each nation's initial force to be tied to the strength of indeps.