[quote=Cale Tucker]
Flooby; from what I read, I need to pay bullis for setting patrols? Personally I think I need only pay for any patrols of soldiers not a part of my Outposts or Forts, seeing as they are always prepared for times of war, they already receive their payments for being battle ready (Sure, I have troops ready for defense in all my other fiefs, but that's like comparing hometown soldiers to frontline soldiers. Hometown don't really see war or fighting if at all, more relaxed, less stressed, time for having a life, where as the soldiers at the forts and outposts... don't exactly get a life.) (There's more to this, but that's for another time).Besides, the Forts and Outposts are already small. taking men from there and putting them on patrol isn't some huge benefit... I'm making it so there are less men defending the Forts and Outposts.Edit: Flooby, can you give me a price estimate of how much it will cost to build all those great wall walls on the island? I don't mean for the fief, this is for the entire island.
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Patrols are just raised levies sent to go guard a large swathe of land. Since the soldiers at your forts and outposts are already raised [ they are, aren't they? ] then you don't need to do anything extra, and can just send them on patrol whenever you feel like it.

And I have been thinking about the cost, actually. I mean, the largest castle or fortress is only going to be a handful of square miles, and Lundland has 200,000 sq. miles [ thus each inch of the map is around 125 miles ]. That makes the island between 6,000 and 8,000 sq. miles, just going off a rough guesstimate. 

Since it costs 125,000 bullis just to build a Great Wall around a few square miles, the expense of building said wall around the entire island would dwarf the income of every single lord in Lundland combined.

So, if you want an island fortress, you'd probably be better off just looking for a tiny island the size of, say, Malta or something, and just building it there. If you'd like to simply fortify the island, but not with a Giant wall surrounding it, you'd be better off with numerous defensive positions carved out every mile or two around the island, with signal fires allowing for quick communication between each mini outpost.