Newbie question about province defenses

chtronk · #1 March 10th, 2004, 09:57 AM

Hello !
I'm a french player. I got the game for 2 weeks, and I have a little (and stupid

)question :
Do you use province defenses ? It costs a lot and seems useless against "medium" armies. If you use it, do you set it to 20 ? Or more ?

Delphinium · #2 March 10th, 2004, 10:38 AM

Province defences are essential IMHO. In MP, you can very easily lose all your undefended provinces to stealthy scouts/units. There are a number of spells that attack provinces with small armies, so defend your valuable provinces ! The numbers to use depend on the nation involved as some PD's are a lot more useful than others. 21 gets you the extra leader. I've learned from bitter experience about this

chtronk · #3 March 10th, 2004, 11:31 AM

Ok thanks !!
But what is the best choice ? Spend 200+ gold to increase province defense, or recruit a general and some creatures for the same task ?

Chazar · #4 March 10th, 2004, 01:51 PM

A commander with troops surely seems a good choice, but as fas as I can recall now, ProvinceDefence has two advantages:

1. They dont mess up the map.
2. They do not consume supplies & upkeep!

So save yourself some money by buying PD!

PrinzMegaherz · #5 March 10th, 2004, 01:59 PM

I think PD is also very important in Single Player game, as the AI often gets ridicolous amounts of units, far more than you could have by that time, and floods your provinces.
Your main army cant be everywhere, so you have to rely on pd to at least hurt the enemy so much he needs to reinforce before he advances.

My best result was with 41 pd Ulm against Ermor. Nearly 200 killed, battle won.

Another thing to consider is that you dont need to rebuild your pd as long as you win. This is a huge advantage to your main army, where every dead soldier needs to be replaced. Just make sure your pd wins.

chtronk · #6 March 11th, 2004, 02:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by PrinzMegaherz:
I think PD is also very important in Single Player game, as the AI often gets ridicolous amounts of units, far more than you could have by that time, and floods your provinces.

Yes I have seen that. Does the AI cheat ??

[ March 10, 2004, 12:18: Message edited by: chtronk ]