Just some thoughts from a Noob

[jimkehn]

Also....Abyssa just entered my home province. My armies weren't there for the initial battle....just the PDs. However, they ARE there in the besieged castle. Is this how they are supposed to act? If they woulda stayed and fought on the battlefield I would have dispatched the enemy army with ease...I think.

Now then....I DID move them into the province the same turn, so maybe they are assumed to have moved in after the field battle occured and found their way into the castle thru secret passages?

[FaceLess]

By default, movement to your own province with a castle will always result in having the troops inside the castle. You can change the move order to move and patrol to have the troops directly help in defending the province. Note that the option "move and patrol" only becomes available after you first give the move order and only if the target province contains a castle you own.
In provinces with a castle, only commanders (and the troops they lead) with the patrol order will defend the province(together with pd). Thus troops on defend, preach, research, forging, casting, etc will never help to defend the province.

[jimkehn]

OK....the game gets deeper and deeper.

[SelfishGene]

Those early Divata summons, the blue dancing girls, come with the morale flag, so you can use them mixed with Markatas to really raise their morale.

The fun little secret of Kailasa is the normal Bandar Warrior; while they seem much weaker then their armored counterpart, they can throw 15 (or 13?) damage Sticks and Stones, with 2 attacks, nearly at the range of a sling. And they'll never run out of ammo.

[jimkehn]

Thanks SelfishGene. SO....do I order them to fire? Or hold and attack, and while they are holding, they will throw rocks?

[Gandalf Parker]

Dominion does affect morale and Markata cant really afford morale hits. To avoid routing so much you might try breaing units into smaller groups. If you have a commander with one big square of units, then break them into 5 units. It seems to help

[Loren]

jimkehn said:
Also....Abyssa just entered my home province. My armies weren't there for the initial battle....just the PDs. However, they ARE there in the besieged castle. Is this how they are supposed to act? If they woulda stayed and fought on the battlefield I would have dispatched the enemy army with ease...I think.

Now then....I DID move them into the province the same turn, so maybe they are assumed to have moved in after the field battle occured and found their way into the castle thru secret passages?

Unfortunately, this is how the game was designed. If there's a castle your choices are "Defend castle" and "patrol". There's no "defend province". A big oversight as far as I'm concerned.

[Nick_K]

Once you've given the move order to a province with a castle, select the orders menu again and you'll see a new one: "Move and Patrol". Selecting it makes the unit move to that province and immediately be tasked with 'patrol' orders. This means that they will fight attackers with the PD on the same turn that they arrive.

I'm not sure a 'defend province' command is that big a deal... patrol basically does this and I can't see many situations where the other effects of patrolling (reduces unrest, detects stealthy troops) are actually disadvantages

[Loren]

Nick_K said:
Once you've given the move order to a province with a castle, select the orders menu again and you'll see a new one: "Move and Patrol". Selecting it makes the unit move to that province and immediately be tasked with 'patrol' orders. This means that they will fight attackers with the PD on the same turn that they arrive.

I'm not sure a 'defend province' command is that big a deal... patrol basically does this and I can't see many situations where the other effects of patrolling (reduces unrest, detects stealthy troops) are actually disadvantages

PD can deal with unrest without killing people.

[Jazzepi]

Loren said:

PD can deal with unrest without killing people.

Wait is this true? I hadn't read anywhere that PD reduces unrest.

Jazzepi