Damn those soldiers!

[Comrade Pedro]

There is a way to stop those boring foreign soldiers and dragoons to get into your lands, preventing you from working with a pioneer on it?

 

[covok48]

It might be taxing, but fortifying your units on the land around your colonies. It may not look pretty, but it's your land then.

 

[Achinz]

That is why it's not a good idea to have too many coastal cities as foreign units only come by sea unless they've already got colonies on the same land mass. With only one or two such cities, it's not too difficult to deploy the military units for defence.

Same rationale for defence after Independence.

 

[Rheinmetall]

Remove them by force

 

[Comrade Pedro]

and if they are more stronger than i am?

 

[dalgo]

In many maps you can find a bottleneck where you can post 2 or 3 dragoons to block off access to your land. For example if you are playing the americas map block off Panama to prevent foreign troops reaching you by land.

However my usual strategy is to reserve half the map for my own colonies by attacking the nearest foreign colony right at the start of the game (even before building a colony myself). If you take that initial colony and then keep capturing men as they land he can never recover and will eventually withdraw.

The four starting positions are fixed and are evenly divided on the eastern edge of the map. Your place in those four is random but you can easily see which one you are by adjusting the view to 120 x 96. That helps you work out where the others have landed. I then attack the foreign country in my half of the map (north or south). This results in a long period without contact from the other two countries and when they finally do arrive I'm strong enough to attack them if they make a nuisance of themselves.

 

[Comrade Pedro]

well, that way you erradicate all the posibilty for the other foreign powers to have a decent colony sytem!
lol

 

[dalgo]

Not really. I only take one foreign power out. The other two can develop normally, but they won't be in my backyard. There is always going to be one country that withdraws from the new world anyway.

 

[Comrade Pedro]

and what about the independence war strategy?
what do you "use" agaisnt them?

 

[dalgo]

For the war of independance you just need plenty of dragoons and spare horses. If you have mostly inland colonies and only 2 or 3 ports it makes it easier to concentrate your forces where the landings will be.

 

[spycatcher34]

There is also the obvious option of paying off the intruders, ofcourse they will eventually come back and it will cost more each time, but its a temp solution.

 

[Prof. Garfield]

It should be noted that in the ind. war the king's troops can "capture" the units on the coast where they land. They can also capture boats if they're situated where the Man-o-War apears.

 

[danbit5]

you could seen a scout down to one of there colonies and chat to the mayor,i found me just letting a scout fart about just outside there area was sometimes necessary, but it was handy especially at times when they were landing them soldiers and standing outside my colonies, another thing you could hit one of there soft targets.

 

[Da_Nerd]

just build a wall with dragoon around your land : )

or kill the europeans off so they dont get units to suround you with

 

[one2tieyourshoe]

If you've got friendly relations with the Indians and Ben Franklin, you can just use a phalanx of free colonists or other fairly worthless but numerous unit as a stopgap.