Re: Sneaking units
Well, from playing the World War scenario, where everybody starts with 5 provinces with 40 defense, I get this feeling :
A scout (+0) going in a 40 defense province has about 50% chance by turn to get caught.
A Ulmian spy (+20) has about 20%.
Of course, 40 defense is much too expensive to use to catch scouts.
In both cases, they won't Last very long. Going further inside is virtual suicide for the scout (get caught and nowhere to retreat = dead), and very risky for the spy, but it can be done if you do not plan to stay there.
Two more remarks :
- As long as you have a friendly province to retreat to, put your scout at the rear of the battlefield and order him to retreat. Even if he gets caught, he won't die but will retreat to friendly territory.
- As a general rule, it is a very bad idea to leave provinces at less than 10 defense, and I would upgrade it to 21 unless the province is really useless. There are many way to take a defenceless province, and the AI knows them all.
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