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[rdonj]

No vet would bother playing against less than impossible AIs. It's too easy to beat the AI on lesser difficulties once you understand how the game works. Personally I only have trouble when fighting 3 or more impossible AIs at the same time. Before I've gotten my magic developed. While using suboptimal anti-AI strategies.

This is no knock against anyone who can't beat the impossible AI. It takes a while to learn the tricks, or a lot of forum reading. But once you become experienced, defeating an impossible AI is actually pretty easy. You have to play a little differently than you would in multiplayer and some strategies that are very effective in MP don't work *at all* in SP. And vice versa, such as with the PD.

[krpeters]

So what's the "correct" way to take on an AI army of 240 troops in mid-spring of year 3 (turn 26)? Assuming your SC Pretender is off dealing with other threats, that is?

The reason I ask is that I verified the excessive PD strategy does work well. I had about 2000 gold worth of troops in province to defend with. Ordinarily, I would have won that battle, but with substantial casualties/attrition. But this time I poured in an additional 1000 gold worth of PD. (PD 41, technically 861 gold).

I started my troops behind my PD. My PD met his horde of garbage, inflicted a good number of casualties, then routed. Then my main troops charged in and finished off his troops. I was pretty pleased with the result. This was with EA Fomoria, btw -- competent PD, but nothing that great (I think?)

So is there a better way to deal with an AI force like this?

[rdonj]

Turn a Fomorian King into a soul vortex-casting SC. He can defeat any number of such armies solo unless the RNG rolls very badly against him. There's also things like dance of the morrigans. But in general PD is a good and effective way to deal with the AI. 20 PD is good enough though mostly, 40 I would save for really large armies and only when you *know* you're going to be fighting over the spot a lot.