Quote Originally Posted by Servius1234 View Post
I hope my question doesn't take this threat OT, but how often do you all get attacked/fight a defensive battle? In my games, I feel like it's always me who's attacking. The AI might go for a city, but it never goes for my armies.
What I notice, generally, is that the AI tends to go for the armies it outclasses, which makes sense. If you're always invading or raiding or whatever with full stacks, it generally won't attack. In my Prussian game (normal/normal since it's my first one for ETW <_<), the AI stack defending Bavaria will usually challenge my units if any end up in their territory, usually from chasing off an Austrian half-stack that was running around Saxony a bit. Since it's not the main front, I don't have anywhere near a full stack there, so it's mostly a few militia, some dragoons, and the odd arty.

Once, Bavaria sent a single line inf to a half-stack I had barely in their territory to attack Austria's but didn't quite reach it, bringing in the Austrians as reinforcements. So, yeah, about as often as you have weaker armies marching about.