Raise two 17th-century armies on a budget. Every company costs its kit up front, then wages and food for each day in the field: horse eat far more than foot. Give each company a captain's personality, pick the ground and the weather, then watch them fight it out, or run a hundred battles.
Historical armies, each bought to the same budget, fight a round robin. Sides swap every other battle and the ground is mirrored, so only the order of battle differs.
What is a pound best spent on? Each army is a single company type, bought to the same budget, and they all fight each other. Cheap men come in crowds; dear horse come in handfuls.
Same army, different captains. A personality is a command style, not a stat: it decides when to fire, when to charge, whether to stand by the pikes and whether to chase the beaten off the field.
Captains' tournament
Captain editor
What a company costs, and why. Money is pounds, shillings and pence (12d = 1s, 20s = £1).