[thejeff]

And for little things like Call of the Wilds/Winds and maybe even Hordes.

So Sombre, if PD is wasting money against raiding parties, do you use it for anything? Beyond 1PD to defend against scouts, which is really only the extreme case of what I suggested. Against someone with minimal PD, if you have flying/stealthy troops it's possible to take practically all his uncastled provinces at once. That's devastating.

Probably also depends on the phase of the game. There comes a time when the standard raiding party is a flying/stealthy thug capable of killing almost any PD. Then PD may be worthless but so are most armies.