Rutee
Warlord
- Joined
- Dec 14, 2007
- Messages
- 178
Since Chislev seems to benefit from a City count of Ridiculous, how does one defend this spread? My strategy with Jotnar was to just have wave after wave of thrall militia on frontline cities, which serve as time wasters for attackers to kill while giants sloooowly ran in, but I don't have free peons I can keep an infinite number of.
The only thing I could come up with was Archers or other defensive units in the outermost cities; Not too many, just a smallish defense force on the border towns; Adepts with Earth Magic making Stone Walls will give the Archers the Wall Defense bonus (I think, haven't tried it with just Wall of Stone), so you just shift the defense force out concentric layers as you continue to expand. Then in next set of cities inward, you keep Recon or Horses stationed with an adept who can haste them, so they can redeploy as needed. And the capital keeps a ridiculous number of Rock Ravens so if someone has a Stack of Doom you can shift them over and whack the stack.
But this seems hideously inefficient and I'm sure someone who actually gets the Civ better then me can tell me a much better way to defend my ridiculous number of cities.
The only thing I could come up with was Archers or other defensive units in the outermost cities; Not too many, just a smallish defense force on the border towns; Adepts with Earth Magic making Stone Walls will give the Archers the Wall Defense bonus (I think, haven't tried it with just Wall of Stone), so you just shift the defense force out concentric layers as you continue to expand. Then in next set of cities inward, you keep Recon or Horses stationed with an adept who can haste them, so they can redeploy as needed. And the capital keeps a ridiculous number of Rock Ravens so if someone has a Stack of Doom you can shift them over and whack the stack.
But this seems hideously inefficient and I'm sure someone who actually gets the Civ better then me can tell me a much better way to defend my ridiculous number of cities.