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ORIGINAL: Jimmer

ORIGINAL: delatbabel
I would never normally build militia as Britain (you have the cash to spare, and your 4.5 morale infantry is WAY better than your 2.0 morale militia) ...

I agree with your whole post, except this line. As GB, I actually buy five militia in every game. These five are built in March, 1805 and are added to a corps counter in Gibraltar in April. Then, they are detached into the city, where they stay for the rest of the game.

The reason for this is that Gibraltar has three fletches. So, IF it is fully garrisoned, it is impregnable. Gibraltar is a 2-spire city, holding 10 troops. In order to be fully-garrisoned, it needs five factors to make it impregnable.

Now, since GB never really expects to USE these factors in combat, they can safely be militia.

In the old rules, one might have purchased a few militia factors for garrisoning conquered minors, too. However, that was when you could turn your militia into infantry by paying for them and waiting 3 months.

ORIGINAL: iamspamus

Just a few musings on the subject.

I think that it is 6 units to make Gibraltar "fully garrisoned" since it is a for a two spire (10 unit) city.

Undergarrisoned: “+1” is added if the city is not garrisoned to within 5 factors of the city’s garrison capacity. For example, if the garrison capacity is 15, one will be added if there are 9 or less factors in the city.