There are many people who say that this game is supposed to be real. In Evony you can defend with whatever you have in the city at the time. Also you can reinforce the city under seige, and the troops coming in can just walk right into the city with out facing the attacking army..... Real? Is this a joke? in the real world those troops had to sneak by or fight thier ways in. Offten the reinforcing army would break the siege on the city. then defend it....... here the troops just walk right in and make themselves at home.....
In evony you can attack with only 125k troops at once where as the defense again can defend with everything they have. so there is no way for you to never be out numbered in a battle... Real huh?
In the real world attacking armys would seige te city for months and months taking the food productions and such to zero you never keep farms with in city walls. There is just not enough room. But dont for get evony is realistic......
This is a game made by people it will never EVER be real. Face it people instead this game should be fun. The "it should be real" people are killing evony and if they don't do something evony will fail. Fail as an MMO, as a RTS, as a game in general.
Wozuka (one who lost millions of troops attacking 161k archers)

