bobbyboy29
I was saying boo-urns...
Hi guys, I was searching for a thread like this but couldn't find one so decided to start my own.
In my latest game (and in most others) I find myself fighting a war against a slightly backwards charlie with lots of land. I have the full contingent of rifles, cavs, grens and cannons but dont seem to be able to conquer his cities fast enough as i have to trudge through his territory and his cities have massive cultural defences. Also I find it extremely hard to coordinate my troops as i have split up my stacks a few times and have reinforcements constantly arriving with no clue where to go.
So far i find that the quickest and best strategy is to have two different approaches to capturing heavily defended (albeit with longbows and muskets) cities with high cultural defences. The first is to have a stack filled with plenty of seige, a handful of defenders to protect the seige and a bunch of cavs. Half the seige bombard the city, the other half attack to weaken the defenders and the cavs mop up using their extra movement point to go in the city on the same turn (assuming its not on a hill). The next turn the seige and defenders move on (including the injured seige who can still bombard) and the cavs heal up(with the aid of a 2 movement supermedic), due to their extra movement speed they will rejoin the stack full health before the defences have been bombed down.
My other stack is more city raider grens and rifles heavy and uses spies to create revolts, however i find this approach actually rather ineffective as either i have to wait too long for all my units to heal, or i dont wait and i have precious city raider 3 grens trickling in, open in the field waiting to be taken out by a couple of roaming knights.
So my question is, should i just be glad i'm winning this war and have some patience, or do you have any better strategies for me? I think everyone can benefit from knowing how others conduct these full scale wars.
In my latest game (and in most others) I find myself fighting a war against a slightly backwards charlie with lots of land. I have the full contingent of rifles, cavs, grens and cannons but dont seem to be able to conquer his cities fast enough as i have to trudge through his territory and his cities have massive cultural defences. Also I find it extremely hard to coordinate my troops as i have split up my stacks a few times and have reinforcements constantly arriving with no clue where to go.
So far i find that the quickest and best strategy is to have two different approaches to capturing heavily defended (albeit with longbows and muskets) cities with high cultural defences. The first is to have a stack filled with plenty of seige, a handful of defenders to protect the seige and a bunch of cavs. Half the seige bombard the city, the other half attack to weaken the defenders and the cavs mop up using their extra movement point to go in the city on the same turn (assuming its not on a hill). The next turn the seige and defenders move on (including the injured seige who can still bombard) and the cavs heal up(with the aid of a 2 movement supermedic), due to their extra movement speed they will rejoin the stack full health before the defences have been bombed down.
My other stack is more city raider grens and rifles heavy and uses spies to create revolts, however i find this approach actually rather ineffective as either i have to wait too long for all my units to heal, or i dont wait and i have precious city raider 3 grens trickling in, open in the field waiting to be taken out by a couple of roaming knights.
So my question is, should i just be glad i'm winning this war and have some patience, or do you have any better strategies for me? I think everyone can benefit from knowing how others conduct these full scale wars.