Raising troops in provs w/o forts?

[SelfishGene]

Some of you guys must think im complaining by the tones of your responces. I was just relating that i find it much more difficult to deal with several medium sized crap armies than one or two large ones. If you divide your forces to counter properly you would also more than likely start to take proportionately higher casualties due to 'fragmentation' (to use the term as it was coined w/ regards to RTS games). I was just wondering whether or not this was an effective tactic vs. human players as well.

Oh and ...

Never let an enemy army into your succulent innards -think clam-!

I like that line . I'll have to remember that. Clam up! Or is it Clam down...

and also...

It's also good to make sure you have spare commanders/armies so you can split forces when the enemy border has more provinces than yours, and you can reinforce armies with part of another army and not have completely neglect the latter army.

Thats wise advice (though i tend to have lots of commanders in mustering the army anyway). I guess i need to move away from designing my armies from an top-down empire view and consider more the more subtle composition of grouping into differentiated, self contained fighing companies.

[ April 15, 2004, 20:55: Message edited by: SelfishGene ]