The Crisis of the 16th Century saw the demise of the Yellow Banner, which had dominated Tozàn for just over one and a half century. While the much smaller Orange Banner remained, an army made up of slaves, the Afìna Akòsan, or Palatial Guard, was also destroyed. Many small wars were fought with improvised wars by new recruits, irregulars and veterans from old wars.

However, the Alááfin had returned, a gànà had been chosen from among the nobles and now she needed an army. Three rebellions had already been succesful and if the Gànà could not raise an army, there was no way that she was going to succeed at returning order and unity to the Alááshu. Gànà Dochàso began immediately, passing edicts the ofòkù and commoners had to follow should war come.

First, Dochàso would put the emphasis on longbowmen. The Yellow Banner had been focused on spearmen, as the longbow was the weapon of the nobility. However, archers were better in greater numbers. It was already a popular sport, but Dochàso forbade the practise of all other sports on Sunday, forbade betting on all other sports and games too, just so more people would turn to archery. Hunting game was a very precarious thing in Tozàn, where a lot of animals had a spiritual significance, but hunting small animals was generally fine and it was commonly agreed upon that shooting smaller animals also made for better practise.

Gànà Dochàso passed an edict that obligated every sháná, usually in charge of a town and its surroundings, every sagwo, usually in charge of a large town, small city and a few sháná, and every orògò and fòkù regardless of size to provide the arms for a certain amount of men. Half of these men needed to practise once a month and would be called up if their lady's land was at stake, half of them would practise every sunday and could be called to arms if the Gànà deemed it necessary. Aside from these common soldiers, the nobles were also required to serve themselves, as well as whatever noble retainers they could afford to bring.

Dochàso demanded that two-thirds of the men was required to practise with the longbow and the others with a spear. For the longbowmen, Dochàso required the nobles to provide a longbow, a gambeson, a cap and an ida sword. At war, each longbowmen would also need a stake, to be carried by the soldier himself, a full quiver of arrows and a full ration of arrow poison. Each spearman needed a spear, a large wooden shield, a side-arm, a gambeson, mail skirt and a helmet. Every commoner longbowman had to be a man because of their greater upper body strength, but each noble was entitled to their own way of selecting the spearmen, who could be spearwomen just fine.

The requirements were different for the two orògò, who were paid additional funds to provide extra forces of cavalry. Most nobles had moved to riding horses, but often dismounted to fire their bows. The northerners were different and did not dismount, but the commoner cavalry the orògò provided could really help out with the numbers. They were also exempt from the final requirement for the ofòkù, which touched on elephants.

Every ofòkù was obligated to maintain at least three war elephants or could pay the Gànà or the Alááfin to take care of their duty instead. A war elephant required a rider and a protected top upon which four to five archers could stand. During times of war it would give the Gànà a ready force of at least twenty elephants, which would generally break the morale of any minor army. It was known that the sight of those beasts sometimes provided victory without fighting.