Question 1:

I was playing the game yesterday from when I got off work to like 3 in the morning. Towards the end of my playing time I seiged Poland's captital ( I was Prussia). It was a strougle to get to the capital as they sent a huge army to stop me on my way. I killed nearly everyone in this army so I assumed the capital would be nearly out of troops. In like 1 turn they added a BUNCH of troops it seemed (I guess citizens knew I was comming and formed militia to help protect the city). So I seiged the city before they could add more troops. On turn 2 of my seige they sallied forth and attacked with what looked like everyone and I killed pretty much EVERYONE but 10 or 20 troops, but I only had 112 troops left. In older TW games this means the city is mine and I just march in. Out of nowhere I find myself up against ANOTHER 600 troops in the city (I assume these are miltia). How on earth did they get 600 more people without a turn passing. Did I drink too much or get too sleepy and see this wrong or can citizens rise up and stop you from taking a territory if you are hated and your force is too small? If this is the case, thats AWESOME.

Question 2:
For early on Navy, do you use the rowable war ships or the sloops? the rowing ships have 3 times the cannon strength but no hull integrity and reload slower. The sloops have better hull strength and reload faster but their cannons seem like they blow bubbles on the enemy instead of shooting cannon balls. I havent done much on the water, as for me Prussia needs to be focused mostly on land battles. But I need to build some ships to stop all the darned pirating going on in front of my ports!!! (I want to bring the pain to Sweden and Denmark for camping all my trade lines for most of the game)