Crazy Large Army Defending Riga

[TevashSzat]

I was playing as Denmark and seeing how my faction leader just captured Oslo and Stockholm and that I could call a crusade on Riga, i did. I thought it would be an easy way to get a huge army since it is a village and has no walls. The crusade is called and when I come close to it i see it has a full stack garrison. Twenty units.... BIGGER THAN MY CRUSADER ARMY. That is some crazy army defending a small village... it is like bigger than two thirds of the Polish military. I sneak a spy in there and i see that it is made of spear militia and peasant archers but still.... twenty units. I am positive that noone has taken the village and let it revolt since the provinces surrounding it are still rebel. Has anyone seen this problem?

[Skott]

You playing with the patch? If not it could be part of that passive AI bug. Troops just loitering around.

[Kobal2fr]

I can't understand how it could happen - slave AI is coded to not do squat. Not build, not move, not attack, just sit there and wait to be taken over.

Perhaps a Russian army rebelled next to it and they joined forces ? Or maybe it's a crusade specific mechanic I haven't come across yet that boosts crusade target defense is said target is not owned by a real faction (else crusades would be too easy early on).

[sapi]

I've seen brigands move into town garrisons (it gave edessa a 15 unit garisson at about turn 20 in my venitian game) so that may have been the cause.