Thread:Argali1/@comment-26863727-20160403142349

I'll be blunt; 100 years of training is unecessary. It takes a certain number of hours of practice to master a single skill. This has been proven to usually be true by research. Assuming that the skill is trained three hours every day, it would take about seven years to become a master of that skill. Thus, one could master four skills in seven years. But you can't just train 24/7, you need to eat and sleep, which together take up over a third of your life. This is why knights and samurai (and Tripraetors and Praetorians) both got 14 years of training, it makes up for time lost sleeping in a seven-year program. So the other 86 years would be better used gaining expierience.

Secondly, if they still get taught over a dozen styles they couldn't be very good at them. If they trained an hour each, it would take 28 years to master one style. But, since they wouldn't be able to practice all of them each day(removing eight hours for minimum healthy sleep and one and a half hours assuming three 30 minute meals equals 14 hours, not accounting for non-combat specific training) some skills would be neglected each day. So even with a hundred years of training KT troops would be well equipped, but not much more skilled than Gondorian infantry! 