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Unless I'm doing it all wrong, in which case, give me your secrets! :D I don't believe you, because I ain't no progamer but don't suck, and I never get sieged by anything other than the enemy King and his many vassals: defending the entrance will usually earn you and your troops more than a handful of jarids, axes, bolts or arrows, and 10+1 can't cut it, can't absorb that many missiles, let alone survive getting surrounded by rushing lords and sergeants. In addition, given the way the Tactics skill and 'Battle Size works, you can gain an advantage by using cheap troops to inflate the size of your 'side' for a particular battle so the elite troops that you bring to battle will spawn earlier (you might consider transferring these troops to the garrison before the battle starts).
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It's a heck of a lot cheaper than using troops like knights. Typically, matching the enemy campaign army in size, even with peasant troops (cost 1 denar/week) is 'just' enough to deter attack. Make sure the shooters are at the top of the garrison order of battle so they spawn earlier during the battle. In places where you'd want to be attacked, I'd put 25% ~ 33% of that 'max enemy campaign army size' in peasant troops AND about 30 ~ 50 'shooters' or troops like the Rhodok/Swadian Crossbowmen. I'd look around at the other factions' campaign armies (add up all the troops that are following the marshal) and put 'peasant troops' garrisons equal to that number in places you don't ever want to get attacked. Native? So there's no automatic troop training and upgrades? Is that a good amount, or should I aim for higher numbers, or even lower? I'm thinking of putting 50 into towns and 30 into castles. So, what is the number that you guys generally put into castles and towns? I want a reasonable garrison to help me defend it. Realistically, your character alone can defend a castle/town with 10 other soldiers, but that's pretty risky. That's good, I suppose, but it takes forever, and it's just unnecessary at a certain point when you've got amazing gear and good stats. I generally try to get like 200 guys into a castle, and as many possible into a town. Believe it or not, I've had 900+ in a town at one point. The one thing I've never known for sure is the proper amount of men to put into castles/towns. I know my stuff, siege battles, land battles, etc. Originally posted by Waffle Guy:Hi, have around 250 hours played in Warband.