Is giving castle away worthwhile?
Playing as Scotland, I've just kicked Norway out of the game, taking Castle Town with a large army in the process, and am allied w/ Ireland, Wales and the Barons' Alliance. I want to maintain those alliances until proud Edward's pow'r is a village with two peasants fighting over the last pig and a dirt road, then pick another enemy.
The Irish have their island and nothing else; the Welsh are doing relatively well against the English re. territories, although they don't have great standing armies. The Alliance hold a buffer two territories deep across the Midlands, which I don't want to disturb.
That was the situation and I was looking for an entry point to Southern England to take on the English, when they chased a small garrison out of Caernaervon with a small army of their own. I took the opportunity to get a cheap territory and establish myself south of the Alliance. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought that gifting Wales with the territory might prevent them from turning on me later at the cost of a crappy castle a long march from my other targeted territories, which are down the East Coast. It would also free up a big, expensive stack to march across the island and perhaps surprise an English garrison or two beat down by the Welsh along the border.
Thoughts? Am I better off holding Caernaervon until it turns into a Scottish castle (and paying for a large garrison until it does), or ditching it for something closer to the action (and easier to spell?)
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) while marching ur big army to the south (or wherever else it was u wanted to march).
