Cheaply securing my front lines
There are different ways I have found to do this and I’m interested in hearing if others have also found other ways to Cheaply secure their front lines…
Sometimes I have gotten myself into situations that cause me to want to stop expanding my Empire or to have to defend boarders from a more powerful Enemy…. So, this is how I deal with that, without having to wage a costly endless war or give up to much territory;
1. Keep a veteran army and a veteran general protecting the boarder but this can get expensive and there can be many endless battles.
2. I weaken my enemy until I can leave enough of his cities (totally destroyed and looted cities, lol, so he can’t stand a decent army against me again) in the way of a bigger enemy and that will stop a bigger enemy reaching that boarder if you leave your weaker enemy in the way and crushed…This only works if the bigger enemy has alliance or wont attack the smaller crushed enemy along the boarder.
3. If there is a nation near that (war) boarder that my Enemy doesn’t or wont attack because of alliances or AI strategy and that nation is weaker than me or doesn’t attack me, then I will send an emissary and “give” them the cities along the boarder so as to totally split me from my enemy. Sometimes you will have to give them money to make them take it… This can end war on that boarder for generations…It costs cities but it brings peace and stops war totally…Which gives me a breather to start pouring my money into strengthening my cities and my economy before I “choose” to go to war or expand….
4. If these three options don’t work for me then I use forts….I Build forts all along the boarder in a checked fashion, one behind another, all the way back to a city and I make sure I can reach all of my forts from a city, like a domino affect, so I can move from a city right across the front to fill a defeated fort…I Fill my forts with battle broken small units, like 15 men in 1 fort. Then, when my enemy attacks a fort (which is instead of a city) and then takes it, he will then walks out of the fort and attack another fort. So, I then send another small cheap unit into the abandon fort and the Enemy Army gets confused and leaves the new siege and returns to the old fort and sieges that all over again. This is a very effective way to screw up the enemies army’s…I have had 4 or 5 full enemy armies caught up behind my forts going round in circles until I had time and money to raise an army and go out and destroy them and move my line (boarders) further into there territory. Forts don’t cost anything to bye in EB but I am not sure if they cost anything to keep each round.
That’s a couple of ways I have used to defend my fronts lines but I would be interested to hear what other ideas people are using to do this.
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Originally Posted by Chronos
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