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Default Re: Beginner's Guide to EA Arcoscephale

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Originally Posted by Trumanator View Post
But what happens if he just methodically advances and besieges your forts, particularly your capital? do you just keep raiding and assasinating? Also, how vulnerable are your mystics if he has a bunch of S mages to magic duel?
Well, the idea is you converge a bunch of your raiders back to the fort to defend, just before he breaks through the defense.
Or you use mystics to defend.

Remember that you should have a LOT of intelligence if you have a lot of raiding forces. Ideally you should be able to stop him from massing a big force.

A couple of other points:

Ideally you want your raiders fighting in HIS dominion. Yours is death remember?

Most large armies will have map move 1-2. Position your oreos in the path of advancement. Use their seduction ability to seduce there commander. Ideally this will cause either:

A. The fragmentation of their force, if there are multiple commanders or
B. A force of leaderless troops.

Either way, attack the square he is occupying with your wind lords - cut off his retreat squares if you can.

The more troops he uses to guard commanders, the slower his ability to mass useful troops in battle- and it doesn't matter *too* much.

Oreos with evo 3+ researched will usually take any 5 guards + random commander.
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