How to deal with powerful stealth army?

NTJedi · #1 July 8th, 2008, 03:12 AM

Cut off the head of the chicken... thus the leader(s) of the stealthy troops. Use spells like seeking arrow, earth attack, disease demon or mind hunt to kill the sneaking leaders before their next move.

Kill one leader and whatever troops under his command will be left behind for killing.

Gandalf Parker · #2 July 8th, 2008, 11:14 AM

How big an army? Spending one turns gold to totally crank the PD in one province can catch them off guard.

Also along with the spells that NT Jedi listed, this is where I love to have a conversion lab running. Steal his commanders causing his units to rout, then use the same tactics back against him.

Stealth armies with guerilla tactics is one of my favorite strategies.

Baalz · #3 July 8th, 2008, 11:48 AM

You can also try to outguess where he's gonna attack and have your army there waiting for him, or teleport in a very tough guy.

Coldshard · #4 July 8th, 2008, 03:15 PM

I like casting wrath of god when this starts happening.. it is really fun to have a message pop up declaring hidden troops being discovered and watching them auto-rout because their commander was killed

Innocence · #5 July 9th, 2008, 02:16 AM

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Gandalf Parker said:
How big an army?

50+ Vanherses (Sacred, Stealth, Glamour). Only my main army will be able to defeat it (playing Ulm myself).

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Spending one turns gold to totally crank the PD in one province can catch them off guard

He walked right over 40 PD and I can't afford paying for much above that.

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Stealth armies with guerilla tactics is one of my favorite strategies.

No wonder, it's wicked

Is it true that using the Move and Patrol order will not enable my army to move a province and catch him? I read somewhere that only the normal Patrol order would actually search for hidden units.

Looks like I'll have to look for spells and/or depend on luck catching him.

MaxWilson · #6 July 9th, 2008, 04:19 AM

I believe so. I know Move and Patrol does not reduce unrest, so I suppose it does not help to catch him. Of course you can always just Patrol and hope he walks right into you (he won't know where your armies are unless you're on his border because he's stealthed).

Stealthy armies are much less of a pain IMHO than flying armies, because they can only attack every couple of turns (or else they might as well not be stealth).

-Max