I have a question about another tactic I am starting to use. Now before I just go in and ask I remember a submod for a previous version of TATW and it allowed you to build stone/wooden forts depending on your culture. Now these forts were not any joke, 3000 gold to build. However, they dished out 8 free upkeep spots. I found this sort of cheep becaue I could spend 6000 on two castles and virtually have a full free stack anywhere I wanted.
Now... With this mod you can build little 200 dollar forts that hold only two free units. This seems less "cheap" or exploitable because of the 2 free upkeep spots. However, if you do the math (unless I was hella stoned when I did the math) you can get those eight upkeep spots by only spending 2000 gold. This looks alittle funny when you have a row of four forts but it might be worth it for the upkeep.
IS this tactic an exploit... For instance I use forts to cover my mountain territories as the Dwarves. The Misty Mountains and Gunabad are covered in little forts. (thinking as the dwarves this wouldnt be too lore breaking)
How do you all, as the community who plays this mod, view this tactic. Say I want to hold off my war on the Gunabad orcs to launch an invasion on Rhun. So I build up four castles around Gunabad and "Dig in" is this exploting the fact that I can just pop up castles and throw free men in them?
-- Just something to think about.