Vinz Clortho
Chieftain
Why do enemy forces greatly outnumber my own, seemingly without apparent cause?
Here's the scenario:
I'm playing the Americans, Warlord level, all victories except conquest shut off. Accelerated production, continetal map, huge, 5 billion years old. I have seven opponets.
It's the year 650AD and the Bablyonians to the south have just declared war on me (without provocation). I am quite powerful with many resources, maybe it's just jealousy. Whatever.
I have about fix or six units stationed in all of my border cities, about six that are directly up against the Babs. Cavalry, musketmen, swordsmen, cannon, and a few scattered longbowmen.
So the Babs start pouring in dozens of units against me of lesser strength. They get slaughtered in their attack and I never lost a single unit. As their reserves begin to form on their own borders, my reserves are coming down from the hills and we manage to keep them in check for a turn or two. But then a turn later they start pouring in dozens of more units... of equal strength! Musketmen, even some riflemen. It's all I can do to repel their forces and though I lost about half my units, they were totally in ruins. I start thinking to myself; "Great, that was bloody, but it looks like we're safe".
Then the next turn the Babs send in literally dozens of more units of equal strength! This time I lose nearly all of my units save one or two per city in the onslaught, and they lose at least 75% of their forces. I have no more reserves to call on, as the rest of my army is stationed to the East, keeping the English army from advancing. We are technologically advanced, making scads of money in a republic, the governers are managing moods, and we are either equal or slightly inferior as culture goes. But even as I'm producing one-four units per turn in the combat zone, the Babylonian forces are massing again and it looks like they'll have dozens of more units coming in the next turn.
How can this be?? Why do they have such a tremendous advantage, with numbers easily outweighing my by a ration of at least 10:1.
What do I do to counter such superhuman production? I have horses, iron, saltpeter, spices, silk... and like I said, tons of money. And yet my forces are pathetic compared to theirs, and it's only 650AD!
Any suggestions?
Here's the scenario:
I'm playing the Americans, Warlord level, all victories except conquest shut off. Accelerated production, continetal map, huge, 5 billion years old. I have seven opponets.
It's the year 650AD and the Bablyonians to the south have just declared war on me (without provocation). I am quite powerful with many resources, maybe it's just jealousy. Whatever.
I have about fix or six units stationed in all of my border cities, about six that are directly up against the Babs. Cavalry, musketmen, swordsmen, cannon, and a few scattered longbowmen.
So the Babs start pouring in dozens of units against me of lesser strength. They get slaughtered in their attack and I never lost a single unit. As their reserves begin to form on their own borders, my reserves are coming down from the hills and we manage to keep them in check for a turn or two. But then a turn later they start pouring in dozens of more units... of equal strength! Musketmen, even some riflemen. It's all I can do to repel their forces and though I lost about half my units, they were totally in ruins. I start thinking to myself; "Great, that was bloody, but it looks like we're safe".
Then the next turn the Babs send in literally dozens of more units of equal strength! This time I lose nearly all of my units save one or two per city in the onslaught, and they lose at least 75% of their forces. I have no more reserves to call on, as the rest of my army is stationed to the East, keeping the English army from advancing. We are technologically advanced, making scads of money in a republic, the governers are managing moods, and we are either equal or slightly inferior as culture goes. But even as I'm producing one-four units per turn in the combat zone, the Babylonian forces are massing again and it looks like they'll have dozens of more units coming in the next turn.
How can this be?? Why do they have such a tremendous advantage, with numbers easily outweighing my by a ration of at least 10:1.
What do I do to counter such superhuman production? I have horses, iron, saltpeter, spices, silk... and like I said, tons of money. And yet my forces are pathetic compared to theirs, and it's only 650AD!
Any suggestions?
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