Units are levied from the local population by the Rulership.  When the Ruler or the Marshal calls the Levy, population from the local region become soldiers of the appropriate Culture.  Social class and home location are also noted in case the unit is ever disbanded. Expending Military Supply alongside this Levy can create soldiers of different types.  If Military Supply is acquired later, either through plunder or production, it can be used with the Reorganize Force Order to change the type of soldiers.  Likewise, the Reorganize Force order can be used to remove Military Supply from given soldiers to use elsewhere.  A Warlord’s Forces do not change types when adding Supply – see their section for details.

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Military Forces can perform the Raid action in order to destroy enemy emplacements, often enriching themselves in the process.  When a Battle occurs, the a Charnel Field remains behind full of twisted corpses and rusting armor.  These sites can be rich with the grim harvest of war, but also tend to attract corpsers, ghosts, hags, and necromancers who make ghastly use of the place as well.  If a Labor Downtime Action is spent at a Charnel Field, some of the equipment can be stolen from the corpses.  Labor can also be spent to bury the dead in a mass grave and remove the Charnel Field.  The Mithrihim Ritual Battlefield Ceremonies can also be used to bury the dead with their equipment and forgive the sins of the Commander who sent the soldiers to their deaths.  Charnel Fields that are not buried eventually find their way into becoming other sorts of problems – often rising again as wandering armies of the dead.

Forces can also take Supply from the Raid action.  Raiding an enemy Supply Line, once located, captures any materiel that was being transported along that line – usually Food, but also any additional Supply or Military Supply such as Military Weapons or Military Armor that is being transported along during that Chapter because of a Reorganize Force Order. 

As well, a Raiding Force can raid a settlement. A Raid targeting settlements will target a number of Landmarks spread out over any number of settlements in the Province.  The number of Landmarks that can be targeted is equal to the number of units in the Raiding Force. If a staffed Landmark is Raided, any staffing Population will become unemployed or slain if the Raiding Force wishes.  If an unstaffed Landmark is Raided, any Supply stored at the location will be sent back along the attacking Force’s Supply Line and arrive at its home location at the end of the next Chapter and if the Raiding Force wishes, the Landmark will also become a Ruin.  A staffed Landmark may be Raided by two units to accomplish both of the above effects.

If a Supply Line is Raided, any Food, Supply, or Military Supply is claimed by the Raiding Force and Military Supply can be equipped immediately or sent home along their Supply Line.  The Force who has had their Supply Line Raided goes Out of Supply.

Longboats are a special kind of Military Supply available to Njordic units.  Longboats are produced at a Viking Shipyard and may be added to Njordic, non-Mounted units in a Force present in their hex without a Reorganize Order.  If every unit in a Force has Longboats, the Force gains the Viking Status.  If the Force moves out of a river or coastal hex, they leave the Longboats behind in the last valid hex.  Abandoned longboats may be discovered by Scouting and may be claimed and used by any Force who knows about them and is present in their hex without a Reorganize Order.