[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Zen:
Yes, that is exactly what it's used for. But it's hardly cost effective to buy more than say 10ish PD in order to do so (As a spot defense). It's more often easier to let the province fall and use your gold on other more effective things than to push alot of gold into the province.

I would tend to disagree - SP only - as it is quite often possible to set up a situation, by exploting AI weakness, where the AI will repeatedly hammer away at one province turn after turn, which can be very useful when you are fighting multi-front wars and you need to hold one front with relatively few real troops while prosecuting wars elsewhere. Rather than buying a large number of good real troops, which will need replacements on a regular basis and possibly cost a significant maintenance, the one-time expense of heavy PD backed up by mages and priests is, to my mind, preferable.

But then again, I am not sure we actually disagree on this one. It is possible that I just have an atavistic dislike to giving the AI even a remote chance of rampaging around in my backyard, if I can prevent it fairly easily.

MP - of course - must be another world entirely, which even I can see with my negligible MP experience. In MP investing in 10 PD is most likely a good way of wasting 55d for most any nation unless you are in overwhelming danger of being swarmed by lowlevel summoning spells.

[ February 15, 2004, 23:40: Message edited by: Peter Ebbesen ]