Blasphemous
Graulich
I was bored earlier and started reading a bit in the War Academy. Suddenly I wondered how other people like to conduct their conquests.
Personally my strategy hardly ever varies. I pick a weak neighboring rival (even when at war with multiple enemies), I assemble fast or at least powerful offensive forces at their border (or within it if we're already at war) and then sweep as fast as possible through their cities in such a sequence as allows me to conquer all of my targets (which usually include anything that could become contiguous territory in my control.) I usually attempt to pump out and bring in good defenders to hold the cities and let my attackers continue their blitzkrieg, but I always end up with too few defenders to hold everything. Fortunately, picking on the weakest rivals I can find usually mean they don't get a chance to take any of their cities back and they're constantly on the defensive. I also make sure to dogpile any enemies I go to war with using alliances, if I intend to take all of their cities or if I expect it to take a while. When I expect it to last only a few turns and don't expect to get them out of the game alliances would get in the way of suing for peace and getting cities in compensation for my trouble right after I'm done conquering.
When railroads are around I make sure to keep my cities connected to a rail network so I can bring my forces to the front with maximum efficiency and easily withdraw my attacking forces to defend against other intrusions when necessary. The same applies to roads, but to a lesser extent.
Note that I play exclusively on RoX.
I think that's pretty much it for me. What are your usual offensive strategies and tactics?
Personally my strategy hardly ever varies. I pick a weak neighboring rival (even when at war with multiple enemies), I assemble fast or at least powerful offensive forces at their border (or within it if we're already at war) and then sweep as fast as possible through their cities in such a sequence as allows me to conquer all of my targets (which usually include anything that could become contiguous territory in my control.) I usually attempt to pump out and bring in good defenders to hold the cities and let my attackers continue their blitzkrieg, but I always end up with too few defenders to hold everything. Fortunately, picking on the weakest rivals I can find usually mean they don't get a chance to take any of their cities back and they're constantly on the defensive. I also make sure to dogpile any enemies I go to war with using alliances, if I intend to take all of their cities or if I expect it to take a while. When I expect it to last only a few turns and don't expect to get them out of the game alliances would get in the way of suing for peace and getting cities in compensation for my trouble right after I'm done conquering.
When railroads are around I make sure to keep my cities connected to a rail network so I can bring my forces to the front with maximum efficiency and easily withdraw my attacking forces to defend against other intrusions when necessary. The same applies to roads, but to a lesser extent.
Note that I play exclusively on RoX.
I think that's pretty much it for me. What are your usual offensive strategies and tactics?