How do I Beat Back Rush Tactics?

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Baalz said:
One of my favorite things to do to somebody who's rushing in too aggressively is to cut off his retreat by attacking the province he's moving from, then jack up the PD in the one he's moving to while moving several mages in to support the PD - hopefully with spells like panic or terror, in addition to whatever you need to specifically counter what's rushing you (earth meld, etc). If you do this right when they're moving out of a wasteland or low population mountain province hopefully some of them will be starving. Pull this off correctly and the enemy will route and be totally destroyed while you have absolutely no losses and turn the rush around on him as you move your army back offensively.

At least...in theory.

I've actually pulled this of against a pretty good opponent once. Two turns later he gave up. That was fun.