Times like this I really wish I could hire Lezalit, give him a shiny new cat o'nine, and turn him loose on the Calradians of this era. Lezalit would have taken 1 look at these captains who send recruit swarms into each other and first have the captains soundly flogged, then whipped the peasant armies into shape himself if it took all winter.
More seriously, passive training needs a massive buff so that it's, you know, actually useful, and we need Masters at Arms to take charge of training, or the option to do it ourselves. Wealthy lords absolutely would spend the time and money required to give their levies basic training and their fyrds more than basic training. The fact that the option to do that doesn't exist outside of mutilating a few hundred thousand Looters is slightly pathetic.
More seriously, passive training needs a massive buff so that it's, you know, actually useful, and we need Masters at Arms to take charge of training, or the option to do it ourselves. Wealthy lords absolutely would spend the time and money required to give their levies basic training and their fyrds more than basic training. The fact that the option to do that doesn't exist outside of mutilating a few hundred thousand Looters is slightly pathetic.