I think free Town Patrol the second you hit Castle age would be worth the same as 100-200 food, at least. It can easily safe you from an unfavourable engagement, or help you set up a trap.
Town Patrol usually isn’t worth 300 food + 100 gold + TC idle time, but it’s jolly nice.
I’d love to see how Byz play with free Town Patrol. Even if it’s just an Arbs + trash civ, with occasional Cataphracts.
If you’re interested we could play a match both with and without free Town Patrol, to see how much it matters. I made a mod specifically to allow such things ^^
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