Well, in this particular case, there is 1 rich realm vs. 3 large realms and one smaller... none of them poor.
Its been like this for.. hmm... 2-3 years or so. There is few battles every 2 weeks, then both go home, refit and then we sit and wait them come again.
I have had impression that there is a lot gold around everywhere, atleast the realms i'm playing (Darka AT. and Ar Agyr BT). There is more gold than people can recruit. And looking sizes of our enemy units, its pretty much continent wide thing. Seeing 100+ men units arent rare.
About the quality, usually building army only from high quality troops is not possible. There simply is not enough recruits for such thing. After battles Darka needs about 25-30kCS recruits in week. So i doubt we ever are able to build so many so big elite RC's.
