Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
I use garbage units for garrison duty only in emergency - for example if you have an imminent rebellion and you can't pull in reinforcements from anywhere. I believe that you will use these garrison units some day, so there is no need to train those who are likely to fail you in a future battle.
Sure, I would love to have great units everywhere but at the start how could I afford that? I already need combat ready units in the borderprovinces so to get very high taxes from all provinces I always filled them with lowcost support units with a high number of soldiers.
And combat troops have not only the disadvantage of a higher support cost / turn, but most have less soldiers so that they are actually less good at quelling unrest than the cheap bulk units.