Newbie question about province defenses

[Delphinium]

Province defences are essential IMHO. In MP, you can very easily lose all your undefended provinces to stealthy scouts/units. There are a number of spells that attack provinces with small armies, so defend your valuable provinces ! The numbers to use depend on the nation involved as some PD's are a lot more useful than others. 21 gets you the extra leader. I've learned from bitter experience about this

[chtronk]

Ok thanks !!
But what is the best choice ? Spend 200+ gold to increase province defense, or recruit a general and some creatures for the same task ?

[Chazar]

A commander with troops surely seems a good choice, but as fas as I can recall now, ProvinceDefence has two advantages:

1. They dont mess up the map.
2. They do not consume supplies & upkeep!

So save yourself some money by buying PD!

[PrinzMegaherz]

I think PD is also very important in Single Player game, as the AI often gets ridicolous amounts of units, far more than you could have by that time, and floods your provinces.
Your main army cant be everywhere, so you have to rely on pd to at least hurt the enemy so much he needs to reinforce before he advances.

My best result was with 41 pd Ulm against Ermor. Nearly 200 killed, battle won.

Another thing to consider is that you dont need to rebuild your pd as long as you win. This is a huge advantage to your main army, where every dead soldier needs to be replaced. Just make sure your pd wins.

[chtronk]

Originally posted by PrinzMegaherz:
I think PD is also very important in Single Player game, as the AI often gets ridicolous amounts of units, far more than you could have by that time, and floods your provinces.

Yes I have seen that. Does the AI cheat ??

[ March 10, 2004, 12:18: Message edited by: chtronk ]

[PDF]

Originally posted by chtronk:
Hello !
I'm a french player. I got the game for 2 weeks, and I have a little (and stupid )question :
Do you use province defenses ? It costs a lot and seems useless against "medium" armies. If you use it, do you set it to 20 ? Or more ?

French ? Alors bienvenue à toi dans le (petit) monde des joueurs français de Dom2 !
Note that there are here many (hidden) prominent French masters : Nagot Gick Fell, Pocus, Sunray_be
being the ones I knew are French (or play it very well, or Belgian maybe )
If you're interested in pbeming with other French speaking people drop me a email.

About PD it's useful to have some in important/rich provinces to prevent them from being grabbed by a flock of (big black) birds, and to detect scout/spies.
These provinces should have say 10-20 defense.
Else PD usefulness is VERY variable according to nations, look at the manual for what you get : Jotun and Ulm are very good (although Jotun Militia has a morale problem), Arco and Pythium PD suck big time, etc..
With "dead" Ermor you often can't afford any, and don't care about it, as you rule barren desert with no *living* inhabitants

Anyway more than 20-25 is more often than not a waste of gold (as each level cost "that level" in GP), unless you're bathing in gold.

[chtronk]

Merci mon grand !! Eh ouais je me suis mis à Dom 2 il y a peu.
I'm interested in Pbeming, but I think I'm to weak (I won 0 game ) up to now .
Maybe in a few weeks ?

[ March 10, 2004, 15:11: Message edited by: chtronk ]