I must say, I am not pleased with how Balance's Retreat is lined up. A loss in food and coin? It's the second largest Stronghold on Dwilight, and has a river...
Why is it continually getting shafted? Holdover thinking from the original days of Dwi? Hatred of the area on the map? Seriously, this makes no sense to me.
As has been stated before, this rebalance is based
purely on algorithms, and has no individual tweaking for specific regions or areas.
We're not entirely happy with what's happened to the mountainous regions on Dwilight either, though, and we've been authorized to boost their population to compensate. That is not reflected in the rebalance numbers, unfortunately, because it will require specific manual tweakage.