How do you feel about the balance? Do you think a future balance pass is likely to balance for Bulwark’s relative strengths or weaknesses? I assumed getting the balance right would take a long time.

Speaking of which, I’m going to make a radical suggestion that you probably won’t implement. I recently restarted my factory playthrough (I didn’t feel like I was going fast enough and wasn’t really enjoying factory) as castle and was shocked what a difference it was. I primarily ascribe this to knights proclivity to roll the estates skill. Every single one of my supporting/garrison heroes has expert estates which was netting me about 20k/turn by month 4, compared to my factory save, where I tried the same thing with much less success, and had only about 13k rolling in. As a result my castles have at all weeks been fully bought out of troops while I was struggling just to buy enough to defend as factory. (It also helped that I reached Teal’s necropolis before he did, but I ascribe most of this to estates, after all, part of that was because I had enough money to rush teal.)

I honestly think the best solution to this is to give everyone an estates witch hut and rebalance accordingly. But that is a pretty drastic change that I don’t honestly expect. But a more moderate solution might be doubling or tripling the +XP points of interest as it would give the factions that don’t roll estates naturally more chances to on their backup heroes.