Prussia

Rulers of northern Germany did not possess sufficient money to recruit the necessary number of soldiers in a critical moment, as it was done in France. Therefore the country pursued the policy of creating a strong national army. There had been a tendency of Electorate nobles to join efforts in the struggle against their common enemy. And the Thirty Years War resulted in formation of Brandenburg-Prussian army. The main principle of its management was division in counties. Each county was obliged to take care of the army within its territory. If the county did not supply necessary resources, the army took them. Such counteraction between the military and civil managerial staff gradually created a system which allowed to supply the army not plundering the county itself. One of the problems was lack of people. During the thirty Years Was an obligatory conscription appeared which grew to a much bigger scale during the rule of Friedrich-Wilhelm I. Officers snatched any fit people and made them recruit to the regiments. But steadily this process was brought to some degree of order and a fair recruitment system was created. This resulted in the strong army which was formed by the second half of the 18 century.

Unique units - Musketeer XVIII, Hussar