No, I would prefer that the Marshal stays the hell out of the Lord's business.
And that the Marshal doesn't treat his army like they're all a bunch of insubordinate jerks.
Any Marshal who believes that they have to check up on every single order that they give, unless they have a damn good reason for it—like a several-week-long rash of blatant and obvious insubordination—should be removed from his position and given a stern lecture on playing BattleMaster, not StarCraft.
Marshals will know when troops move. They will know after battles who followed the settings. They can check on your troop numbers to see if you recruited, on your readiness rating to see if you repaired, etc. They can know if you followed almost every order, *except* for maintenance tasks. And since civil work is boring, and you want everyone who can do it to do it so that the army may leave the target region as soon as possible, it's quite reasonable that these marshals would like to know who is actually carrying out this order.
If a whole army is stationed to stabilize a new region, then no, it's not the lord's business, as odds are there aren't even any lords for it. It *is* the marshal's business, because he must likely stabilize that region before he can move on to his next assignment.
Indirik quoted that "The people who should know have been informed by the game automatically". I completely disagree with this. I haven't seen judges perform the roles of Chief Bureaucrat since many, many years. Since the estates, they are a dying breed. And the ruler? Why the hell would he care? It actually bothers me that I get as a ruler these messages. Region maintenance isn't the ruler's duty, it's useless spam to him. Those who should know are the lord of the target region and the knight's marshal (or his general if he is not in an army, maybe). *Then* the people who should know would truly have been alerted.
Region maintenance is not something only for a lone noble or two to go around. It most definitely concerns armies, and therefore their marshal. Especially since regions are much harder to stabilize than they once were. He should not expect his orders to be 100% followed by 100% of the people 100% of the time, but he should be able to check up on maintenance just the same as for everything else. And it is sometimes actually helpful for him to know the actual results that everyone is having. Such as looting and foraging reports can be useful for things other than just knowing who is obeying.
