You have no idea how much I appreciate that little bit of insight.

My last backup save was three game weeks ago before I attacked the Swadians to set up my own kingdom, and I REALLY didn't want to have to go through taking Dhirim again with a party size of 37. The first time it took all 108 of my converted Sea Raiders and 7 sallies before the final assault.
Does it take time to switch kingdom culture? I'd really rather have Vaegir defenders for my vassals' castles (or Nords that I can poach

), and I'm thinking of just switching cultures right before and after fights.
If you build 11 engines, can you assign more than 5 on the pre-battle deployment screen? How do you end up cheating the enemy out of his engines? And wouldn't you end up with 5 engines right next to his spawn point or do all 10 appear by yours?