Marshal pulling troops from my fiefs.

[Kozenger]

I saw on the forums previous that people were having issues with the marshal pulling troops out of their garrisons when they were stockpiling troops. Ok, all well and good you don't want us to have a 1500 troop stack. That's fine. I took Eidynburh back from the Alban and starting throwing my troops into the garrison. Before it was actually awarded to me, I requested it, the marshal pulled out about 100 troops. Dropping it from 300ish to 200ish. Ok, fine... I don't actually own it yet and some of my men were taken. I can live with that. Then I replenished the troop count back up to 325 after it was awarded to me and again... the marshal pulled out half of my troops. Now I'm back down to 150 in the town. This is ridiculous.

I understand, from a gameplay perspective why you don't want 1500-2000 troop stacks on one fief but I can't even put in 325 without losing half of them ? Jorvik has over 800 and the marshal isn't pulling from that town. I don't see how I'm expected to properly defend the fief when there are several Alban lords that walk around with 200 250+ troops when I'm only 'allowed' to have 150 without feeding my troops into this never ending black hole that is my marshal. I'm just going to pull every man out and leave it undefended.

 

[JuJu70]

Garrison is dependent on prosperity, so if prosperity of town is 0, then exempt garrison is 150 I think. Jorvik may have prosperity of 80 for all we know. Where is the marshal located?

 

[Kozenger]

The marshal owns Mame Ceaster. I know for a fact he pulled the first batch out while I was still waiting to be awarded the fief. I had an odd number of Sailors, Svear Warriors, and Veterans garrisoned and checked his men after I saw them go missing and he had the exact same numbers that were missing.

I suppose low prosperity limiting the amount of garrison I'm able to place in the town makes sense but I wish there was something to let me know. Eidynburh was flip flopping between factions for quite some time. Northumbria seemed to enjoy being at war with half the factions. We were even fighting Danmark for a while which made zero sense considering the events of the campaign up until the point I'm at. So it's likely the prosperity was in the toilet.

 

[Kozenger]

In light of learning that prosperity directly relates to max troops at a castle/town I decided to switch my usual mount and blade tactic of take and hold into burn it all to the ground. Spent about a month of in game time just raiding villages until the castles troop count started to drop. Then ravaged the castles and cities. Although I didn't gain any ground personally my trail of destruction allowed my faction a reprieve to regroup and push forward on multiple fronts.