Quote Originally Posted by askthepizzaguy
Ah, ah, ah... you're trying to have your cake and eat it too. Only I'm allowed to do that. ;)

You are trying to overwhelm me with your superior naval defenses. That only works if they are in a stack, given the one-turn crossing of the sea. Otherwise you have to surround and pound, but as the defender, you dont have time to do that. I can cross in one turn.

And if you try the zone of control defense, you have to cover all of southern and eastern English channel.

You can't do that with full stacks of naval forces unless you're cheating or it's turn 100.

I will simply run the blockade at it's weakest point, or cross in one turn via ship. You can't have both formations at once. Perhaps a ring of ships and a single stack, but then why couldn't I just sail by Ireland and invade that way?

Too much sea to defend, not enough sea to give you time to stop me, not enough ships for the undertaking.

Entirely unworkable plan until late game. And even if you could do it, it would cripple your economy. Why shoot yourself in the foot that way?

Change the strategy (turtle versus moderate expansion), not the tactics.

Tactics will not overcome poor strategy.

I will tell you what. Show me a screenshot of such a thing before turn 30, and I will concede the point. Otherwise, it's pure fantasy.
I only need to place a stack at each port and blockade the port. Any ship you build would have to fight their way out. The pickets can be 1 space apart and only 1 or 2 good ships in each picket stack. The picket line would just be to stop your 1 merc ship. The port stack would stop your recruited ships. Again, you'd win because you could just build a massive navy in the med and sail it over. But, again, it will not be as easy as you keep claiming.