Quote Originally Posted by khaos83_2000
1) Garrison ur Cities with the LOWEST upkeep units.
e.g. archer militia has lower upkeep than spear militia.
During my Milan campaign, i only realise that spear milita has a higher upkeep than crossbow militia after i had 1/2 the map under me. I used only spear militia to garrison my cities. imagine how much $$ i can save if all had been crossbow mlitia.

You phrased it wrong. It's FREE upkeep units, higher or not it isn't costing you a dime (or florin) but it is however wise to keep those high risk areas garrisoned with the high $ militia (like spears) to max free upkeep then add some Xbows on top for the 100 florins a piece a turn (since it automatically makes your most expensive units the free upkeep ones, just try it with depleted units, and you'll see what i mean)

That way it only costs you 400 florins for the Xbows, but you have 5 Spears that don't cost a penny (you should be mixing defense troops anyways, since a unit of archers/xbows/italian xbows can be devestating on enemy attackers on the walls (more so then an infantry unit waiting for them to come out of the siege tower/ladders)