Does this math work?

[Thufir]

archaeolept said:
the thing is 3 works w/out patrollers, and using patrollers will very much speed up the population loss in a province. Its a strategy, but most people are more comfortable w/ minimizing pop loss.

As you say, I'm reluctant to patrol since I'd prefer to reduce pop loss. What I've been doing as Abysia is to start out w/ 2 warlock apprentices, then move it up to 3 if/when resources permit. I find though that with 3, it still happens that unrest occasionally rises, so my current strategy is to go with 3 until unrest goes above 30, then put 1 of the WAs on research until unrest drops back down.

Does this method sound too wimpy for you blood veterans out there?