Quote Originally Posted by mcederholm
My thoughts with the question was to get some general advice regarding defending castles/cities.
When I played france, I didn't use archers at all, but now playing the Byzantine, I have a lot of trebizond archers around.

But as econ21 says, when you're up to 3-4 swords, spears and archers, your above a half stack, and suddenly, it's more of an army than a garisson...

I've heard though that even peasant archers are valuable when defending a castle.
Is militia any good (except for italian militia that I know is good) for defense? Or should one use better troops?

//Matthew
it goes without saying that any city should have at least its full implement of free upkeep milita troops. (obviously they provide a public order bonus as well)