A newbie question

[Ironhawk]

lilu, dunno if this is what you are doing but a big hurdle for me (in terms of MicroManagement) when I first started playing was that I built units in *every* province, *every* turn. By doing this I thought I was "maximizing production" or something. But the truth of the matter is that you should be building almost exclusively from your forts. National troops are superior to indy troops (those available in conquered independent provinces) in almost every case. There are of course exceptions to this, most notably that some indy mages will give you access to magic paths, but in general it holds.