Re: My provinces keep getting the waterloo treatme
 

If you have the monkeys you might consider slipping a large monkey army thru the stronger indept provinces, then start expanding on the other side. Allow a province like Knights or Amazons to defend you

Re: My provinces keep getting the waterloo treatme
 

It *does* respond to your strength but often seems to misjudge what it needs. Larger forces get larger attacks; if they're big enough they don't get attacked at all. However, the AI seems to consider force count and not force quality and so it does very poorly against thing like, well, elite, armored, demonic, longbow samuraiwomen nicely shielded by PD. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: My provinces keep getting the waterloo treatme
 

... All right, I have to ask. Which unit is the demonic samurai woman with a longbow? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: My provinces keep getting the waterloo treatme
 

Well, a Dai-Bakemono (type 2) probably looks demonic to the average human and who is going to pry off the armor to check the sex? It is middle era and elite with longbow and samurai gear.

Re: My provinces keep getting the waterloo treatme
 

One thing the learn about dominions is that there is absolutely nothing that is good against everything. Scout a lot, and when you see a large enemy army closing attack it with one chep commander or something, and look closely what kind of troops he has.

Giants? They kill everything they hit in one turn, so either get them more targets (smaller, cheaper units) or targets that are harder to hit. (more def, etherealness, luck, whatever)

Do they have low prot? (archers shine against low protection non-shielded units.)

Small armoured units? (trample, giantgs)

Undead horde? (I banish thee...)

And so on and so on...