Beginner's Guide to EA Arcoscephale

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by Trumanator

But what happens if he just methodically advances and besieges your forts, particularly your capital? do you just keep raiding and assasinating? Also, how vulnerable are your mystics if he has a bunch of S mages to magic duel?

In order for a nation to be a "raiding nation," it has to have some defensive capability for stopping an enemy advance just like you describe. In Arco's case that probably means that when he besieges your fort, 11 mystics, protected by some troops, pop out in a communion (3 masters, 8 slaves) and rain fire, ice, and magma on the besieging army until it dies, then go back to researching. There are probably some Oreiads there doing assassinations, too, and you'll have a better force density because you're closer to production centers than he is. What you want is for him to be forced into counter-raiding (which you're better at) or straight-up attacking (which you have a defensive advantage at). If he can win in a straight-up focused assault, raiding won't work unless you're good enough at it that you can take provinces twice as fast as he can take them back, and use that stranglehold on his economy to produce enough forces that you *can* win a straight-up battle.

-Max