How do I field enough troops to stay offensive minded and yet defend taken provinces?

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Sorry for the question. I've used the search feature under Carrion Woods and I just can't seem to keep enough troops to sustain any kind of offense. I usually have at least 3-5 Carrion Lords on my home province reanimating and then load one up and send him out and replace him with another rinse repeat and continue. They leave with about 50-60 vine creatures but I just can't seem to match any of the Easy AI cpu realms. I can't remain offensive minded and still keep provinces just don't have enough resources so how do all of you do it? I start off fine then they over take me with hundreds of troops by the end its just 8-9 carrion lords and my pretender on my home province waiting for death. Any tips and suggestions would be extremely helpfull. I'll continue to search the forums as well maybe I might come across somthing I missed. Thank you.

Ascendent