Newbie question about province defenses

[chtronk]

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 ]

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Originally posted by chtronk:
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 ?

French ? Alors bienvenue à toi dans le (petit) monde des joueurs français de Dom2 !
Note that there are here many (hidden) prominent French masters : Nagot Gick Fell, Pocus, Sunray_be
being the ones I knew are French (or play it very well, or Belgian maybe )
If you're interested in pbeming with other French speaking people drop me a email.

About PD it's useful to have some in important/rich provinces to prevent them from being grabbed by a flock of (big black) birds, and to detect scout/spies.
These provinces should have say 10-20 defense.
Else PD usefulness is VERY variable according to nations, look at the manual for what you get : Jotun and Ulm are very good (although Jotun Militia has a morale problem), Arco and Pythium PD suck big time, etc..
With "dead" Ermor you often can't afford any, and don't care about it, as you rule barren desert with no *living* inhabitants

Anyway more than 20-25 is more often than not a waste of gold (as each level cost "that level" in GP), unless you're bathing in gold.