Re: Fixing PD?
If you invest in PD, I suggest protecting the investment with some troops you don't consider useless.
PD by themselves may be weak, but a defense force plus a mob of PD can be quite strong. Especially since if the province is not lost, all the PD reappear. PD is magically regenerating fodder, and it's much more useful when combined with at least a few other units.
For example, I had an Ulmish province with 20PD and a few troops get attacked recently by an army of over a hundred men. On the same turn, my provincial commander apprehended the attack (random event - I have luck scales) and added 20 more PD - suddenly I have 20 Arbalests, 20 Infantry of Ulm, a priest, and Ulm commander, and my troops. All of the PD were tough but expendable. It was a Phyrric victory - both sides lost lots of men, especially the enemy. Almost all of my men however, were PD, and so magically reappeared for the next attack. I've crushed several attacks into that province, so my 20 PD has let me take probably over 100 casualties so far, and has inflicted hundreds.
If I didn't have any other troops or mages stacked in the province, though, it's pretty likely they would have routed at some point, and thus have been lost.
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