How many men you have trained in each is a matter of style really.
Here are a few principles;
You need at least one trained soldier to hold each weapon you want used in battle.
Eg. If you have 10 dragonskins, 40 wargs and 15 dragons you want a minimum of 10 defence specialists and 55 attack specialists to use these weapons. If you are banking weapons then you might not want all your weapons used (as they get damaged) so you would have 'working weapons' for each trained man and then a surplus that wouldnt be used.
Unarmed men dont contribute too much to your SA/DA compared to guys with weapons even if they are trained, the values are 5 instead of 4 - rather than (5 or 4) * weapon strength.
However trained men have another purpose - if all your men are trained as attack specialists then they cannot die when you are attacked, and unarmed untrained men die quick, so you can train men to attack to avoid casaulties when defending (but imo untrained men are cheap...)
When it comes to spies/sentries it is a little different. You get less gpt from them (18 instead of 25) but they do not count as TFF - good for pillage and not-being-a-target reasons.
Also an untooled operative has more effect on your spy/sentry rating than an unarmed soldier on SA/DA. You still need tools to make them effective at missions but bulk-training spies/sentries (after upgrading covert level as much as possible) is an effective way to boost spy/sentry ratings.
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