Can't purchase province defense?

[onomastikon]

Experimenting with Pythium, and captured an underwater Indy province using water mages. But I cant buy province defense; hitting "d" etc. just doesnt work. Is this correct?

[Psitticine]

Nope, just a quirk involving underwater provinces. Your regular defense troops can't breathe water, so you can't post them there.

[onomastikon]

Originally posted by Psitticine:
Nope, just a quirk involving underwater provinces. Your regular defense troops can't breathe water, so you can't post them there.

Oh right thanks. Should have thought of that. So if I want to defend that area I must recruit the "local" kind (and the kind that takes upkeep), right?

[Gandalf Parker]

I havent tested it but isnt this unfair? Water nations can build defense on land cant they?

[diamondspider]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
I havent tested it but isnt this unfair? Water nations can build defense on land cant they?

I was thinking the same thing at first, but then thought:

1) indeed, how could my normal humans be recruited to breathe underwater and,

2) as long as it is taken into account in balancing the water races, it should be no problem.

Another possibility would be to disallow the water races to build defense on land if it was deemed too difficult to balance.

I already suspect that water races are the strongest in the game and "overpowered" but I haven't played long enough to prove it

The amount of planning, time, and resources it takes to be able to mount a solid attack on the sea zones for most races makes sea races very strong since they don't have to worry about this.

[ February 01, 2004, 16:35: Message edited by: diamondspider ]

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
I havent tested it but isnt this unfair? Water nations can build defense on land cant they?

I don't know about Atlantis, but R'lyeh cannot recruit its troops in land castles, so it's not as unbalanced as you may think.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
I havent tested it but isnt this unfair? Water nations can build defense on land cant they?

Water nations have taken a serious blow since Dom1, as the population of their provinces is no longer tied to the physical size of the province on the map. The underwater provinces are not as wealthy as they were before.