Quote Originally Posted by Caravel View Post
I renamed the metalsmith as the blacksmith and made it the pre-requisite building for all cavalry, peasant type units and axe units.
I take it, then, that you also made the blacksmith as readily available as the inn, requiring not even a level 1 castle? Otherwise it seems odd to make it a prerequisite for so many things, especially considering that the blacksmith was absolutely essential to medieval life, as without him you essentially have a stone age society. In fact, it would be difficult to build even the first level castle without metal, too.


Oh but it does... the lowest quality peasant thug militia are the best for this type of work... On the whole I'd say that this works better than it does in RTW, where garrison size is proportional to the population size and once the population gets to a certain level large garrisons don't help much.
Inexperienced soldiers tend to be brutal and downright cruel soldiers, as history shows, and while they can efficiently cow (and decimate) a camp population, they would certainly only have a detrimental effect on the loyalty if tasked with overseeing the population at large.