[apoger]

If you get into a situation where you are surrounded by many strong opponents and you aren't strong enough to take them out, nor are strong enough to hold your borders... you are in bad shape. It's very hard to recover from that.

In future games try to create artificial borders by:

- Keeping troops on the border
- Pumping up province defense in border provinces
- Building fortifications along the border

Furthermore try to develop some armies that can move fast, so they can respond to an intruder.

The computer tends to attack weak spots. Make sure that your provinces look strong, and it will choose other battles... at least for a while.

If the computer penetrates an area, pump the province defense in front of it, and hire mercs near the area.