candid,

yes, it does seem a bit odd that you can capture an entire province with just 1 unit sometimes. it might be nice if provices were divided up into townships or something and that an army could take just a portion of a provice or occupy part of a province and put the entire province in a 'contended' mode or something where no one actually owned it but that it was 'in contention' by 2 or even more armies. the original owner wouldnt be able to draw koku from it or make units in that province until he once again 'owned' the entire thing. or at least something along those lines. i suppose there's several variations of this that could be done, but i think you get the idea.

K.