New Player Question --How am I Getting Flanked?

[Psitticine]

Did they take the province? If so, the aggressors should still be there, unless they've moved on to attack your neighboring provinces. Take a look at the Province Info and it should reveal the basic troop make-up, and that'll give a clue as to what happened.

[tinkthank]

I bet it was imprint souls too. That's a classic Pythium one. It summons fairly large, fairly weak armies into distant provinces which can do decent havoc if they are poorly defended.

[Redfive]

I took both provinces back next turn but I had to use front line troops to do it so now the border is weakened and he will probably move in force to take some ground back.

It's a multiplayer game and I didn't get to play any turns Last night so I haven't progressed past reclaiming the initially stolen provinces.


So, to defend against this kind of attack I need to keep sizable forces/high prov. defense in all my territories?