[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
Tien Chi's core national units are pretty weak as it stands, making the provincial defense conscription feature a more prominent part of the nation couldn't hurt at all.

Are you aware of what kind of income boost having your PD increase by 1 in every province, every turn, would be? In your capital alone, that's a starting income of 25 gold, 35 by the time turn 10 rolls around. If you spend 50 gold to get your PD up to around 10, then it will pay for itself in about 4 turns, once your defense gets to 15-20 and starts to be very expensive. When you have 10 PD in 20-30 provinces, that's a 200-300 gold piece income per turn, that increases rather quickly into the 400-600 gold per turn range.