Town garrison replenishment mechanism

[Tachyon]

I know that Lords replenish troops by recruiting around villages, but how do towns replenish their troops? Do Lords go recruiting from village to village and dump them all in the town? Or does the no. of troops in a town increase over time automatically without interference from a Lord ?

 

[LordMutaz]

You garrison men there yourself when you own a town or castle.
for castles put knights and alot of Gaurds and huscarls and sergeants to defend them. especially shield users. spear users are great too.

 

[Krobas Krunic]

I know that Lords replenish troops by recruiting around villages, but how do towns replenish their troops? Do Lords go recruiting from village to village and dump them all in the town? Or does the no. of troops in a town increase over time automatically without interference from a Lord ?

Are you asking about how you get a garrison in a city you control or how a city belonging to someone else gets a garrison ? ? ?

Your questions seems to start out one way and then goes the other . . . 

 

[Tachyon]

LordMutaz and Krobas Krunic, I was talking about AI controlled towns. I already know how to garrison troops in castles/towns I own, thank you

 

[Togakure]

Lord parties, castles, and towns regenerate troops automatically.  Lords do so after they are defeated--they'll reappear in a town or castle and you'll see their numbers slowly increase.  Once they reach a certain point it stops and they start roaming around.  After this, they can augment their party by recruiting in towns or freeing prisoners after a battle.  It seemed in previous versions, where you could actually see lords' wealth on the factions/lords screens, that the number and quality of troops was related to their wealth.  Now wealth is hidden.

Castles and towns garrison slowly.  When taken, they start with zero troops, but as soon as the castle or town is awarded to a lord as a fief, a small amount of troops will appear (larger for towns, and town garrisons seem to grow faster than castle garrisons).  Over time they build up.  It appears that they never stop--in my late .96 game, some towns have over 800 troops garrisoned.  I've seen castles with 250+.

 

[Shik]

Lords do garrison their castles in addition as well.

I believe garrison growth is limited by the lord's funds.

I saw one captured castle never grow beyond 65 men after countless days and months.

 

[Tachyon]

Hm..yeah, I noticed that too when it comes to troops in castles. They only increase according to the Lord's prosperity. But troops in towns seem to increase on their own.