How many?

[fuddha]

Just a simple question:

How many provinces do you lose in a game??
(count every time you completely lose control over a province, relieved sieges don't count)

Me... None to two times... Crazy, I know...

[macsen rufus]

"To lose one province is unfortunate, but to lose two looks like carelessness... "

[fuddha]

:))

[ichi]

As the HRE, Novgorod or Poles I might lose 3 or 4 over the course of a campaign. As the rest maybe 1 or 2.

ichi

[macsen rufus]

More seriously, I usually try not to take a province til I'm sure I can hold it. Sometimes I raid first and if there looks like a long siege ahead, I'll withdraw until the enemy comes back outside, then I go in with a small army to defeat the garrison in the field, making sure there are no survivors to hole up again, then invade properly... cuts down on those losses through siege attrition.

[el_slapper]

There's usually a strategical withdrawal when the horde arrives, as it still happens to me to forget to prepare..... But that's all, usually. When playing France, allowing Brits to siege some provinces early on is unavoidable, but I make sure they pay the price(reverse is true if I play the Brits).

[{KotR}Lionheart]

I rarely use more than 3 or four privinces in a campaign, and then never any of thosei start with.

[{KotR}Lionheart]

I rarely use more than 3 or four privinces in a campaign, and then never any of thosei start with. It is normally those in north africa, when an almohad or egyptian army is focused into one newly taken priovince.

[Ulair]

None and lots

In my core empires I like to expand quickly to start with, then carefully, minimising borders and only taking what I know I can keep. There's nothing like holding Greece and Bulgaria and watching western European crusaders slowly dying of cholera in Hungary

But, I also enjoying raiding and pillaging the territories of factions who've really annoyed me (you know, the Sicilians sink your ship for no reason, that sort of thing). I'll send an emissary behind their lines, find the nearest rebel stack or disloyal army, bribe it and set about rampaging through their provinces, all defended by 100 peasants and a dog. Take 'em, rip down every improvement and move on. Sometimes invading and having them retreat to the castle is enough to wreck their infrastructure. They take the province back (or have a huge loyallist rebellion) - but who cares! I've slighted the wells and ploughed the fields with salt...

Works great on the Spanish: as that huge crusade approaches, go buy the rebels in Portugal, sack Castile and rip down the Chapter House! Love it . And of course, as a Muslim faction, you can always Jihad to these places later on, getting excellent conquering armies for nothing!


Ulair (playing the Turks just now and lovin' it...)