sentences:  While the soldiers would be hired and salaried full-time if at war, they lived at home and off duty in peacetime.This meant that it would always be possible to raise a trained army in case of war.The impressment of the foot soldiers was called "utskrivning" (literally "writing out"), and was based on a grouping, called a "rote" (similar to an English "file" or "ward"; in the eastern parts of the Swedish realm, this became the Finnish "ruotu"), of ten men from an estate or a few farms, fit for military service and between the ages of 15 and 40.