The answer to the original question is still no, the towns are not accurately populated to support the armies that are being sent against you.

This was also one of my biggest beefs with the game. For the enemy to continue sending soldiers at you they should have to be able to recruit the general populace. When a city has a half dozen people wandering around it being useless and somehow manages to keep sending wave after wave of soldiers at you it begins to get tiresome and really breaks the sense of reality and engrossment with the world.

Hopefully part three will have a way to deal with this. I'm guessing that if armies are balanced for multiplayer play then it will be easier to be true to life, simply making the enemy town a programmed ai of what a player would do.

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