I imagine you are speakign about New Derchios Castle? It is our Southern border and adjacent to faction we are at war with... It makes sense to garrison it properly.
about 9000 troops inside...
Now look around the map. I can name several places that have an even greater troop mass some in areas far from front lines (no one on this list take any insult, none is meant... just wondering why we are being singled out)
Nova Uxkhal 18,000
Nova Grunwalder Castle 28,000
New Almerra Castle 20,000
New Weyyah Castle 10,500
New Sungetche Castle 12,000
New Tulbuk Castle 14,000
Nova Tulga 11,000
New Ahmerrad 10,000
it would seem we need more men not less
Only one of the fiefs you mention is on the border of an active war (not including, possibly, HoC's castle, which could be discounted for obvious reasons), only one was taken from another faction by force within the last few months. It's New Derchios castle, of course.
I singled it out because you took it from us recently. It's an effective strategy, not letting us fight you back, but it's a shitty one that leads to a stagnant map with less battles. The fact that it's close to the front line is exactly why I have a problem with it.
Hell if you take into account how near impossible the place is to take New Dhirim with 6000 troops is ludicrous! That is the force multiplier of having 100,000 men inside that place.
Yeah, but at least you could attack it without wasting hundreds of tickets to the timer. (2000 of the 6000 is population which doesn't count against the 1/3rd attacking rule)
Tobe fair - remnant was planning on doing some expeditions. Those 8K troops is more a sign of how many remnant are recruiting troops amd jow long its gone with absolutely no attacks. Its not like chaos and occitan would ever have the balls to attack it. Was sitting for 3 weeks with less than 5K troops and nothing.
You'll notice that almost exactly around that timeline (3 weeks~) was when FIDLGB attacked Senuzgda castle instead - it was a second resort, because of extra troops being put into Derchios. I am pretty sure right around that time was when it went above the reasonable limit to attack.
So we should have less troops in our castles because we are in a more active war area? Should we attempt to make war less costly for our enemies and more expensive for ourselves?
I find it odd that you have an opinion of how we should run our faction, when you should be more worried about your own.
As part of a faction that tries to pride itself on good gameplay for fun and not exploiting, one that derides people for cheap tactics and diplomacy, yeah, you should keep the game from being as boring and awful as EU strat. I mean, isn't it more fun to fight us when we're losing horribly, rather than doing nothing? You ought to encourage it. Nobody at this point is likely to expend an excess of a thousand tickets just to lose a fight.
