Mongol Problem
I've never played as the Mongols before...
I started the campaign with, I think, 3.5 stacks and quickly took over four Kwarez. provinces with each army taking small, but significant losses. The small losses are significant because I cannot replace those troops until I have top-tiered Huge City and/or Citadel recruitment structures. I consolidated some units and took two more cities before I ran out of starting cash, the next turn the Kwarez. decided to lay siege on two cities and my attacking of those stacks resulted in the destruction of their empire. I then sent one army to the former Kwarez. Fortress and another down to take their Large Towns... and this is where I noticed the problem.
I am taking a 5000 florin penalty each turn (actually, I think it might have gone up to 6k after taking that Fortress) and now, around turn 25, I am at -110000 florins. It took me a while to notice it because I thought that since I had a large army I would of course be taking a loss until I had enough settlements to support them, but now that I should be making a profit every turn (and it says this in the economy scroll) I am being put further and further into debt and can't replace the loss of my current troops let alone build more. It's gotten almost to the point where I can't even attack any more settlements because further unit consolidation will result in under-garrisoned cities that will rebel on me (just like 3-4 Generals appear to be planning).
Is this normal? Am I taking a penalty for each settlement I own? Am I taking a penalty for each garrisoned General/Army? What's going on?
I looked for a post on this topic on the first few pages and couldn't find anything other than a Mongol/Cuman discussion where someone mentioned starting with 5 stacks and then getting another 6 stacks at turn 5. After reading it I thought that might explain the losses and went looking for them in my game, but there's none there.
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