How does one calculate Base Garrison size?

[unmerged(88697)]

Total Garrison is Base Garrison + Keep bonus, and Keep bonus is dependent on what keeps have been built. That's obvious.

Nor does it have anything to do with walls, for instance, two castles with level 5 walls, one has a Base Garrison of 640 and the other 1080.

The make-up of the garrison is reflected by the levy, but still there doesn't seem to be any correlation between levy size and Base Garrison size.

Hopefully there's a simple answer for this because garrison size is most important for defensive purposes.

Thanks in advance.

 

[User4035]

I would like to know too because when I'm a lowly count its annoying to try and invade my neighbour and then find out I don't have enough troops to complete the task.

 

[unmerged(88697)]

Well, I'm not saying that so much as I want to build-up my garrison defenses.

Doesn't seem like anybody knows, perhaps it has to do with the number of extra build slots or something like that?

 

[DanubianCossak]

Each settlement has base number of units (levies). The base garrison value seems to be equal to that. However, the amount of levies you get also seems to depend on your mil skill, so you wont usually have 250 units / castle, but something like 237 or whatever. Then as you add each unit building that gives a fixed amount of units, the base garrison seem to increase as well, however when you construct a building that gives levy %, only that increases, same way as when you build garrison %, only that increases. So the basic stuff you can do, is build up the militia building line, as it seems to give the most unit count, specially the level 3.

 

[enf91]

Every time you build a building that gives more troops, the garrison increases by the same amount. So if you have a new castle, its starting garrison will be 225 base garrison + up to 225 levy. If you build a Militia Training Ground, giving +80 LI and +10 archers, your castle's base garrison will go up 90 to 315.