by rican415
Interesting. However, if it were, as in our game, that the starting player were to choose the initial faction power, then troops equal to resource card would not be chosen (as it's bad right off).But perhaps 2 troops/resource card would be chosen before 1 troop/HQ. I don't remember what the rules says regarding this, if it's a group decision, or if it's the player choosing the faction that decides.
Perhaps you could say 2 troops/territory in the beginning, until the mean value of all territories reach 2, then you could switch power to state that it's the resource card value instead?
Either that, or the power could say, Number of troops is either the resource value OR 2, whichever is the highest.