It's awful IMO. It punishes a player for good squad preservation. A winning player can get +99 income while a losing player that is playing poorly and losing all his mens can get +250 to +300? That's quite ridiculous, and a cop-out version of a "comeback mechanic."
y heard somewhere that they used this mechanic to make more cumbacks in games but i don't know if it's true
Here's how it looks like
max pop cap = 100
0-25 pop cap = free upkeep
26-75 = 4 upkeep per pop cap
76-100 = free upkeep
so overall it's very unbalanced upkeep cost, i think that i something failed in this description because minimum possible income is 99 (non numbers increased by 4 will give you 201) but that's how it works
artillery really suck this game - katiusza/maultier deals shit damage, sometimes to infantry when hit near squad, only howitzers looks only good arty in this game