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    Lord of all Under-Thumb Member Jason X's Avatar
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    i haven't played HRE, but most factions are best with a city to castle ratio of at least 3:1, then you make sure the cities use their free upkeep militia for garrisons, and only use a limited number of field armies to fight your battles. this has the biggest impact on upkeep costs

    in terms of building the economy, build roads, at least the first two levels farms, ports and markets in cities, early on. in the early game, i even minimise taxes to boost growth so that when i actually do go a-conquering, my economy can support it.
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    Yeah turned out I had around half of my regions as castles. My economy just collapsed after I turned some places into castles to protect my border. Then I went back 2 turns and changed them back and turned some of my castles into cities. Palermo makes a lot of money as a city
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    Also, do an audit of your garrisons. Disband any unnecesary merc as they have high upkeep and dont keep large garrisons in your heartland as it is redundant. Finally, if you have some governors with really bad traits, just send him off to suicide and hope for better governors.

    Remember, dont build the brothel line of buildings if you want competent governors
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    Sometimes when you send a bad general off on a crazy mission they succeed and become amazing generals. Good for crusades. Not so smarticus
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    I had this problem with the HRE too when i was attacking France.

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    Also don't forget that militia units in a City can, up to a point receive free upkeep. Get the Faust, find out which ones and garrision cities for Free.

    The HRE is somewhat different from the Byzantines but I find that the 3:1 city-castle ratio gives you too many castles. I try not to have more than a 4:1 ration and maybe less than that.

    Example out of an empire of 31 provinces:
    Zagreb
    Budapest
    Raggusa
    Durazzo
    Sophia
    Bran
    Bucharest
    Corinth
    Thessaloníki
    Constantinople
    Nicaea
    Smyrna
    Iconium
    Trebizond
    Cesarea
    Tbilisi
    Yerevan
    Mosul
    Baghdad
    Edessa
    Aleppo
    Antioch
    Adana
    Nicosia
    Iraklion
    Rhodes
    Acre
    Damascus
    Jerusalem
    Alexandria

    I have only
    Ragussa
    Bran
    Cesarea
    Acre
    Tbilsi
    Mosul
    as castles which is a 5:1 ratio. Of those only Ceasarea is not on or near a border.

    But, if you do that kind city/castle ratio you MUST build up the drill square in the cities to get whatever pale and barely adequate HRE equivalent to the Varangian Guard is. Otherwise you will probably not have access to enough good troops
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