How does this work, anyways? Just in the capital?
Some of the spikes are due to us recruiting like crazy and Garas putting up quite some militia. But the huge huge spikes are peasant militia yeah, think we used it twice?
You need to have something like max 3 regions (doing this by heart but it's in the ballpark) and the enemy must have more troops in your realm than you do. Then you can call it and it gets called in all your regions. Oligarch only has one though, but with almost 70k pop we raise them big.
The last battle was fought hardly without peasants by our side however save for like 2k cs worth remaining.