
I would shut down my quarries or iron mines, so I would get more recruits, in exchange of some resources (this way I do lose some stone and iron). For example, I do use "sleepers" to get more army if I need them, but my way is not to build unnecessary buildings only to gain more unproductive peasants. There are many of us who don't like this way of playing. This way they get much gold, and a lot of peasants - they are able to train more than 150 men at single moment, and instantly to attack. On the other hand many of them just spam everything - they build more woodcutters than they actually need, and they build way more mills than they need (even though they might not produce bread at all), and all of this only to generate huge population, to set taxes to -24, and set food to no rations, before grace period expires.

Many players try to do as much as possible during grace period, which is normal I'd say - greater economy you have, it is more likely that you could win.
