"I shall certainly accept your offer, signore." you say, the man smiling as you both shake hands.

In truth, you had some reservations about takin these volunteers. Not only would they increase your burden of supply, you have no supply that these men are, in terms of discipline, barely above rabble. Spirited as they may be, they are not tested by fire, nor is have they been drilled to a sufficient level of efficiency as your own citizens were. You do not believe in their ability to sustain formation when under heavy attack.

On the other hand, they are volunteers, men willing to fight for your side and to do so without pay. Given that they are also men of this country, you doubt they would visit many horrors upon the civilian populace when handling in occupation, or at the very least, certainly not to the degree your mercenaries or even your own countrymen would do so. And thus, you believe that the cost they represent is lesser than the benefits which they may bring.

It is in the next day that the men that the Podestá had promised are delivered to you. They are...a ragtag sight, if you have ever seen one. Barely able to keep a proper formation, the two companies which had taken form outside your army camp were composed almost entirely of arquebus-wielding men, their clothes in the usual colorful Straccian style betraying their origins from the middle class of the city. There were, you had been told, about 554 men, a full company and three quarters almost to the number.

Immediately, the issues they have become a bit clear. These men do not speak the language of your people, Mirevalian. Although your academic proclivities have led you to being well capable of making conversation with them, the same could not be said for most of your men. You'll most likely have to assign their side of the camp close by to those of the men of the Banda Grisa, experienced as they are in fighting alongsides men of all stripes and nations.

You are relieved to learn that they, at the very least, were already wise enough to elect the captains of their companies and divide themselves into smaller groups, but if you want to turn these men into a fighting force, you will have to put in the effort.

For now, however, you must carry on. And so, amidst cheerful goodbyes, your men set off from Isedia and onwards to Largo, where your foe awaits...

WEEKLY ARMY TASKS

Field Handbook - https://rentry.org/TercioQuest

SCOUTING DETAILS
>Add unit(s) to scouting efforts (If so, which?)
>Remove an unit from scouting efforts (If so, which?)
>Keep things as they are

FORAGING DETAILS
>Add unit(s) to foraging efforts (If so, which?)
>Keep things as they are

ADDITIONAL DETAILS
>Add unit(s) to another effort (If so, which task, and which units?)
>Keep things as they are