The great thing about IRL over video games is that you absolutely can just press-gang chunks of your miniscule population (or import a shit ton of foreign mercenaries with inherited loot of a prior generation) whether or not a video game developer considers it a prudent tactical choice.
"Return to Tradition" I chant, as I mobilize my population for Total War.
The Baltics don't have enough population to enable the mobilization option on the strategy screen
The great thing about IRL over video games is that you absolutely can just press-gang chunks of your miniscule population (or import a shit ton of foreign mercenaries with inherited loot of a prior generation) whether or not a video game developer considers it a prudent tactical choice.