As Innovations progress, more tiers becomes available allowing for larger units to be maintained. When you hire them they begin with only 5 men and slowly reinforce to full strength.Įach unit, once hired, can be upgraded through multiple tiers, each adding an extra hundred soldiers. This is not the same as the number of men in the units though. You begin with a Regiment Limit which is how many different units you can hire. If you were familiar with Retinues from CK2, they are more or less the same idea, with noticeable refinements. Your Men-at-Arms will arrive immediately, but the rest of your army could take several days to appear so be patient and wait before starting to manage them. You are able to reorganise stacks, moving troops and Knights into new armies and so it is often a good idea to simply raise all in one place to make sure you don't have straggler stacks getting picked off across the map, before organising them manually.

It's worth noting here that you cannot declare war with armies already raised. This means that no matter where you raise your first army of war, it will include your elite troops. If you choose local only, you will generate a stack of nearby Levies (the number can be seen to the side of the button) along with your Men-at-Arms. Each new Rally Point creates a different coloured flag on the map and if you click on this you see the option to either Raise Local Army or Raise All Here.

At the bottom of the Military tab, you can click to add and then select a Holding anywhere inside your Realm. To raise armies in CK3 you need to first make a Rally Point.

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