Im sure it's asked often but is the game intentionally frustrating or am I doing something wrong? you have to have 20 troops to keep the settlements from burning down, but you need to empty each country of troops just to take a new one meaning even if you win the others have mobs that burn something... What am I doing wrong?
This is just one of the reasons I said this game could take up to 100 hours to play.
First you must build up to at least 20 troops and build all buildings then there is options you can use to help each state.
Keep 20 in each state until you need to attack the next one, that is once you got the stated looking good then do the mission for the next state and so on.
I leave 30 troops in the state I just took and moving 20 back to each of the states after taking one.
This helps make the state happy before you move on to the next one.