Patrolling - How, when, where, who?

[Gandalf Parker]

This is kindof confusing because you seem to be using patrolling to refer to 2 or 3 different things.

I tend to set my defenses to 1, 6, 11, or 21 depending on what is there. This is also affected by what nation it is. Such as Jotun can fight off a Call of wind or wild attack with a defense of 6 where Man should have 11.

I patrol if its a rich province and I want to increase taxes for abit. especially if its something that can make troops of a type I need. So I build and keep inching up the taxes until I have a decent army there. Then I move the army out, turn the taxes back down, start over.

I often crank taxes to 200% for a few turns. Especially at the very beginning of the game until Im ready to swarm out the first time. The hard part is to remember to turn it back down when I move. Im rotten at formulas so I end up just as often having to turn taxes to zero in order to get back my ability to build there.