High PD kinda useless.

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Graeme Dice said:

What about upkeep? If you got two units you for the 40th point of defense, for a cost of 40 gold, it takes 15 turns for that point of province defense to pay for itself. That's assuming, of course, that the province is ever attacked in the first place.

It's not as good an investment as buying real troops that you can use to attack for half the cost.

You are living in the past, man! NO nation in Dominions 3 gets ONLY two units for PD over 20! NO ONE! 3 is common, but here are those nations I found from the manual that had less than 3 units:

MA Ulm:
½ Infantry of Ulm, Crossbowman, Pikeneer

EA Helheim and EA Vanheim
Serf Warrior, ½ Huskarl, Huskarl (but those are Van Huskarls, with glamour etc)

EA and MA Jotunheim:
½ Jotun Militia, ½ Jotun Javelinist


Here are two nations that get quantity but not quality:

LA Ermor:
2 Longdead Velite, 2 Longdead Legionnaire, 2 Longdead Horsemen

All ages of monkey people:
2 Markata, 1½ Markata Archer (with range 20, very weak Small Boys), 1 Bandar Warrior

They could be said to be worse than 3 normal human units. However, LA Ermor doesn't buy high PDs often. Markata are priced at 5 gp, or half a light infatry. As such, monkey people get a slight less than 3 PD units.

These are the worst. Others are better. As I listed earlier, Man gets 2 Militia, 1 Spearman, 1 Longbowman and 1 tower Guard.