Well, the problem with most of these ideas is that you're not making fighting wars easier. You're making it harder. Much harder. How well do you think that such a change would be received by the players?
So, what can you do with this idea to provide more things for players to do, while not making it overall harder to fight wars? Say, provide ways for other players to get involved? What bonuses can you provide to offset any penalties that you propose?
Bushels are consumed at a rate of 1 per 500 people per day.
That's the peasant rate. Tom has stated in the past that soldiers consume significantly ore food than that. I don't think anyone has ever calculated it. But it should be pretty easy if you wanted to do it.
