Hi all,

A quick question:

When you are at war with someone and have a smallish border, is it possible to prevent them from getting into your territory by having troops and/or forts strung out along your border? In other words, is it possible for them to send troops "through" your troops?

Thanks!

Enemy troops cannot go through your troops

But you need to be careful, because if they have a "back door" so to speak, (Open borders with a country bordering yours) they might sneak in behind your border guard and sabotage your (lightly guarded?) core cities...

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Hi all,

A quick question:

When you are at war with someone and have a smallish border, is it possible to prevent them from getting into your territory by having troops and/or forts strung out along your border? In other words, is it possible for them to send troops "through" your troops?

Thanks!

You might be able to do this, but you should then place enough troops in each tile to stop their advancing army, which leads to the question: why aren't you attacking?

Maybe, it can be good when you have 1 or 2 border tiles with some defensive bonuses.

I guess you could do it if you're lazy and have a huge tech lead. If he's got anywhere near your tech, he'll have a field day mopping up each small stack with a slightly larger stack...you'd be better off putting them all into a big stack and wiping his army with it, imo.

ok, thks. i was thinking more in terms of for when i'm playing defensively, but after reading some more on the forums, maybe i'll focus more on staying more on the offensive

I guess you could do it if you're lazy and have a huge tech lead. If he's got anywhere near your tech, he'll have a field day mopping up each small stack with a slightly larger stack...you'd be better off putting them all into a big stack and wiping his army with it, imo.
My "border patrol" are the smaller stacks that will defeat the random units that get through the front line.

And you really only need these for the first couple rounds of the war. After that, the AI has spent most of his expendable units.

Even with a relatively small border it can be tiresome to put enough units on every tile, and the AI will be smarter than you can be at finding the weakest point of your defensive line or any gaps (unless we're talking about one tile here).

A better strategy is to put a combiend force of good defenders and some good attackers and sit them on a defensive tile, hills and preferably forested too. They can then control the border area making it a killing field. Any enemy units are attacked, backed up by your defensive units, and the lot can retreat to the defensive tile to heal up. Ideally the area you're defending should be free of forests and other defensive tiles.