I don't think it is as quiet bad as you say Vines, and the person still drafting and retrain. Why need high defense if you have high offense to scare people? And furthermore, he is mystic.
That means if enemies decide to chain him, he get powerful wpa. If they not, he can mess around with his offense.
This is my province on genesis, I start with around 1800 acres and just winning a war so it is kinda screwy. I don't pick the race/pers. Furthermore, I rebuild nothing than farm, rax, and tg when im inside war.
Server: Genesis #18
Utopian Date: April 21st, YR8 (70% in the day)
RL Date: September 9th, 2008 (2:12 GMT)
Personality & Race: The Artisan, Dark Elf
Land: 2,040 Acres
Money: 1,100gc (63,440gc daily income)
Food: 104,785 bushels
Runes: 18 runes
Population: 56,828 citizens (27.86 per Acre)
Peasants: 22,114 (99% Building Efficiency)
Trade Balance: 543,376gc (0% tax rate)
Military Eff. with Stance: 164.61% off. / 117.56% def.
Soldiers: 3 (50.5% estimated draft rate)
Night Rangers: 12,356 (122,039 offense)
Druids: 9,123 (53,625 defense)
Drow: 3,522 (23,191 offense / 24,843 defense)
War-Horses: 2 (up to 3 additional offense)
Prisoners: 250 (1,235 offense)
Total Modified Offense: 146,473 (71.80 per Acre)
Practical (0% elites): 123,282 (60.43 per Acre)
Total Modified Defense: 78,472 (38.47 per Acre)
Practical (100% elites): 78,472 (38.47 per Acre)
Thieves: 3,683 (1.81 per Acre / 15% Stealth)
Wizards: 6,027 (2.95 per Acre / 10% Mana)