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Q said:
This is not a bug but quite unbalanced:
The miltia is extremely weak. You can conquer a full sized homeworld (4000M population) with a few small low tech troops.
That can easily be modded of course.
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I'm not sure that it's unrealistic if militia are "free". If you had to pay ongoing maintenence on them and the number you got was proportional to both the population size and how much you'd been paying, you could postulate that they are something like the Swiss army. However, if they are free then it is basically a bunch of untrained volonteers with whatever weapons can be scrapped up. Looking at the real world, in locations where private ownership of firearms is common and military service is popular (so lots of those firearms owners will be veterans), an ad hoc militia might be fairly effective. If you postulate a location with no private firearms and very few veterans, though, an army from the US Civil War era could probably conquer an otherwise undefended modern country without too much trouble (trained troops with muzzleloaders are going to beat a mob of civilians with garden tools, even if the civilians have technical skills that are 150 years higher).