Quote Originally Posted by therother
Are you sure of this? I've made a few investigations of the effect of garrisons, and it seems that the game scales the garrison effect so that one unit of peasants will always have the same effect on all unit sizes. Of course, you will take more men out of your settlement per unit, so that will tend to help reduce squalor and the associated public order penalties.
You may be right, but it just seems overall that its easier to manage happiness.
Ill have to see what happens when I start to get a large empire with huge cities.