How to keep the borders safe?

[Chris Byler]

Originally posted by apoger:
#1 Take the inititive. Make your enemy chase you in his territory.


#2 Province defense


#3 Hold back a reaction force that can respond to threats.


#4 Use a pretender that can cast teleport or cloud trapeze. Use that as a quick repsonse to enemy incursion.


#5 Fortify provinces to slow enemy incusion


#6 Try to develop army countering tactics that involve sacrificing lesser resources in order to break larger incoming forces.

For example:
Some sacrificial Poison Slngers, Bog Beasts, or Hydras can often kill a huge number of enemy troops with poison.

You left out a big one: siege him. (Or was that included as part of #1?)

By laying siege to their forts you deny them recruiting ability, which keeps them from replacing their armies. The AI will usually try to lift the siege even if it has insufficient force to do so, so you can destroy or weaken its army while at the same time preventing it from reinforcing. Then you buy a second army at home (or some mercenaries) and start conquering provinces.

Make sure you bring some mercenaries to take point when you storm castles. You wouldn't want to risk your own valuable troops.