New Player Question --How am I Getting Flanked?

[Endoperez]

There is an event which causes Ermorian cultists to try to conquer a probince. Same thing for Dryads and Maenads, and IIRC Marignonites attackin Ermor. You just got lucky... Or maybe someone else got unlucky!

BTW, you should always look the battle, maybe not fully but atleast check the enemy units and positions. Just press 'Q' when you are satisfied...

[Sindai]

Originally posted by Redfive:
Ah, yes I forgot about sneaking armies. I suppose that could be it though I'm surprised they were able to sneak two 50+ unit armies to two different provinces on the same turn.

Personally, I think it's more likely it was astral travel. From what I've seen, the AI usualy doesn't make much use of deep-striking flying armies or sneaking armies.

On the other hand, I've never seen them use Astral Travel either, but it is Pythium, who has far easier access to high-level astral magic than they do sneakers or fliers, so that seems most likely.

Do you have to have units on patrol to find stealthers or is there a default chance as well?

A bought province defense of 10 or higher has some chance of detecting sneakers, but I think patrolling armies are much better at it.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Sindai:
Personally, I think it's more likely it was astral travel. From what I've seen, the AI usualy doesn't make much use of deep-striking flying armies or sneaking armies.

I would think that it would be far more likely that it was a call of the winds, since Pythium can cast that easily.

[Yossar]

With Pythium's strong Astral, I'd say more likely than not it was the Thaumaturgy spell Imprint Souls. I've had the computer use this on me a lot.

[Psitticine]

Did they take the province? If so, the aggressors should still be there, unless they've moved on to attack your neighboring provinces. Take a look at the Province Info and it should reveal the basic troop make-up, and that'll give a clue as to what happened.

[tinkthank]

I bet it was imprint souls too. That's a classic Pythium one. It summons fairly large, fairly weak armies into distant provinces which can do decent havoc if they are poorly defended.

[Redfive]

I took both provinces back next turn but I had to use front line troops to do it so now the border is weakened and he will probably move in force to take some ground back.

It's a multiplayer game and I didn't get to play any turns Last night so I haven't progressed past reclaiming the initially stolen provinces.


So, to defend against this kind of attack I need to keep sizable forces/high prov. defense in all my territories?