I have to ask, is there any way to tweak the system that assigns premade garrisons so that if I conquer a castle or town myself, and "ask for it as a reward" and receive it, I get the premade garrison and don't stand around with an empty city until I fill it myself?
The reason I am asking is, what I used to do was conquer stuff on my own, then "ask for no rewards", and the lords would usually agree that the fief should go to me because it "should go to the one who captured it". This would also grant me the base npc garrison. This was changed at some point, because now if I don't ask for the fief directly, they don't consider the conquer status and I basically need to convince lords individually to support me, which is though on its own but almost impossible if I'm not the marshal because there is simply no time to reach enough of them even if I had the votes. Then I get the fief, but with 0 garrison and I spend ages fighting off even the most idiotic Sarleon lord with 50 troops laying siege. It's driving me nuts.
I have seen there is something on the wiki page about this, but I'm not sure it exactly applies to the situation I mentioned.