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Consider an army of 20 citizens. 10 work for an iron company, 10 work for a weapons company.

The 20 employees and two companies form a production cell. All 20 volunteer their time for minimum wage. All 20 of them place their faith in the leadership, which is closely held by three people. One of the three runs the iron co, another runs the gun co, the third manages the org that owns both cos.

The 20 employees can feed themselves a Q2 ration each day on their minimum wage. Provided the collective skill of the iron company payroll is 60 and the gun company's is 48, then each employee could receive two Q1 weapons per day! This is of course at prevailing economic conditions. These skill totals may seem a stretch, but it gives you something to shoot for.

The sale of iron would be the primary source of external cash to fund the payroll, that and the donations from the 20 employees of their gold from achievements.

Consider this 20 citizen army sticking together for a month or two, the strength and skill only go up, they will naturally become an elite force, advancing Q levels as their skill permited.

Consider how easy it would be for the company to send messages to the army through the company mail/shout system. Too easy!

Growth of this army would occur in magnitudes of 20, once the production cell of iron/weapon achieved sustainability (ie was staffed at the right skill level) then another cell would be developed.

I am told that this is how Romania runs its private armies and it makes a helluva lot of sense. Once a critical mass of production cells is achieved, some of the overheads of MT's and housing could be explored, but these are inefficient things from the perspective of a private army.

Alas, life in a private army is not for everyone, so if its not for you, don't volunteer your time. It's a choice.

You can tell by my avatar that I'm a member of Bruck's Canucks, for the record, this is not their system, this is a pet project of mine that I'm pursuing. I'ts not really much of a pet project, as I've said, I'm told Romania runs something very similar to this.

I'm glad to see some talk in Congress and in Newspapers about retooling the CAF but as I pointed out in my comment, without a viable economic model to support the army, it will fail. The CAF cannot rely on the tax roll of its eCitizens, those monies should go to Defence Systems, Hospitals, and one day, housing!

Who's your daddy? Addy's your daddy!!!