High PD kinda useless.

[Patriot]

I just purchased this game and have only begun to play my first game, so I am a total newbie. I've yet to play another person, so bumping up your Province Defense high and turtling up might lose you the game against a human. I don't know.

But in my game, where I'm playing against several computers, I up my Province Defense to the max in every province and use my army to snatch weakly-defended provinces, trying to avoid a costly battle. Since I've scaled towards a high income, it's somewhat easy. I'm trying to kill off my opponents with temples and a 10 dominion pretender. It's pretty anticlimatic way of playing though. These are normal computers too, so that may be the problem.

Anyway, if the computers actually defended each province well or ranked up a high Province Defense, I might avoid attacking, as replacing 200-300 men and merging them takes time. I think the biggest thing about Province Defense, and it explains it in the loading screen between turns is that, Province Defense returns full force if not defeated and at no cost to the player.

This is a great game by the way.

[NTJedi]

Patriot said:

Anyway, if the computers actually defended each province well or ranked up a high Province Defense, I might avoid attacking, as replacing 200-300 men and merging them takes time. I think the biggest thing about Province Defense, and it explains it in the loading screen between turns is that, Province Defense returns full force if not defeated and at no cost to the player.

Yes even tho Dominion_3 has more gold available the computer opponents rarely invest in province defense. Personally I would setup the computer opponents to place a minimum of 8pts in province defense and then have them invest 2% of their total gold into province defense for existing provinces. And provinces with forts/castles and/or high gem income should have a minimum of 15 province defense.
It's sad attacking a computer opponent only to discover their average province only has a total of 4pts in province defense after 35 game turns passed.