My provinces keep getting the waterloo treatment

[Gandalf Parker]

If you have the monkeys you might consider slipping a large monkey army thru the stronger indept provinces, then start expanding on the other side. Allow a province like Knights or Amazons to defend you

[curtadams]

Cainehill said:

Actually the AI is pretty stupid right now, and _doesn't_ seem to respond to strength the previous turn. One of my MP games, Pythium's player went AI real early - I've kept the same army, with the same 31 PD, in the same province, and chewed up 3 attacks from Pythium's best troops. Things like 70 troops attacked, 56 dead, 0 friendly casualties (because the PD kept things from getting near my elite, armored, demonic, longbow samuraiwomen).

It *does* respond to your strength but often seems to misjudge what it needs. Larger forces get larger attacks; if they're big enough they don't get attacked at all. However, the AI seems to consider force count and not force quality and so it does very poorly against thing like, well, elite, armored, demonic, longbow samuraiwomen nicely shielded by PD.

[Mind Elemental]

... All right, I have to ask. Which unit is the demonic samurai woman with a longbow?

[Wick]

Well, a Dai-Bakemono (type 2) probably looks demonic to the average human and who is going to pry off the armor to check the sex? It is middle era and elite with longbow and samurai gear.

[Tuna-Fish]

One thing the learn about dominions is that there is absolutely nothing that is good against everything. Scout a lot, and when you see a large enemy army closing attack it with one chep commander or something, and look closely what kind of troops he has.

Giants? They kill everything they hit in one turn, so either get them more targets (smaller, cheaper units) or targets that are harder to hit. (more def, etherealness, luck, whatever)

Do they have low prot? (archers shine against low protection non-shielded units.)

Small armoured units? (trample, giantgs)

Undead horde? (I banish thee...)

And so on and so on...