How to keep the REF from growing too large?

[Feannag]

But by 1706 the REF had gotten HUGE: 66 Soldiers, 37 dragoons, 65 Artillery, and 73 Warships.

They really need to patch this and make it so those are percentages/proportions. The number of warships should only be say X% of total soldiers, when there's more warships than soldiers that's pretty stupid.

 

[Axxon]

On average there's half as many ships as other units. There's code for this.

Just because he was unlucky once and randomly got an extraordinary result doesn't mean the whole game is broken...

 

[Antilogic]

I laugh when I see the REF adding that many warships. It's not like my privateer and frigate are going to sink one, much less 50 of them.

The big difference in Col2 is the fact that the REF will land all at once instead of slowly trickling, one load at a time, to their doom.