Does anyone else do this?

[amagi]

Are these 'peasant settlers' an exploitation of the game mechanics or just clever play? Barbarian Invasion is to bring us hordes on the move, so the unit disbands may well be altered from 1.2.

If more of a disadvantage was needed for the tactic, one suggestion would be to implement public health and public order penalties for disbanding a unit in a city.

[Viking]

It does increase squalor penalties when you disband peasants in your cities so I think it works pretty well already.
And it`s not an exploit, it`s rather the opposite; why not just force a certain amount of inhabitants to move from that settlement to another, just like enslavement does?

[player1]

Well, increase in squalor is obvious, since squalor is a function of city population.