Quote Originally Posted by Quillan
Stolp, I think that if you want to defend on a frontier, you either have to just "keep them at bay" as you put it, or advance all the way to the edge of the world. If you play as England or the Moors, then perhaps you'll have two directions where you don't have to worry about enemies, but otherwise every border is hostile. The only thing that seems to work, at least somewhat, is to leave a 1-region buffer state between you and the people on the far side of your enemy. Hopefully you'll have gutted them well enough that they can't afford huge armies.
Yeah, I'm starting to realize that. It takes some adjustment to realize that you're never going to have a friendly neighbour... but that's Total War, I guess.