What do you do when you see an attack coming?

[cf_nz]

Take a look at the screen shot.

It's pretty clear what's about to happen, Catherine is going to attack. I'm curious to hear what people would do in this situation.

1. Do you attack first or wait?

2. What options can people think of to avoid a war?

3. Also imagine you don't have the same number of ships defending, how would your tactics change?

Fortunately I saw the attack coming early and formed a defensive wall. None of the Russian troops made it to land.

Edit: screen shot removed as old thread.

 

[alpha wolf 64]

let her take the political hit by declaring war. Hope you got your carrier some easy xp against those frigates.

 

[jimbob27]

Personally..... I'd declare war first and sink her ships. Theres only 75 turns left, so the chances are the diplomatic penalty won't matter a huge amount.

To avoid war, you could try bribing one of her neighbours to attack, or possibly put a huge land force near her intended landing site to scare her off, and then follow her around the coast with it, when she's looking for another weak-spot.

If I don't have the ships to defend, then hopefully I'll have enough forces to kill the invasion whilst it's still on the beach. If not, I'll hold up in the nearest city till she either attacks my city, or spits the stack to pillage. Once the stack is split taking them out should be easy enough.

 

[Minmaster]

in your case i would let them land and declare war since their army is outdated compared to yours. those cossacks are easy pickin's for your infantry. now if they were bringing modern armors and mech. infantries, i would try my best to sink those ships before they reached my shore.

 

[Panda]

Unless you're afraid of the political damage, sink the ships with troops onboard.

If you want to avoid a declaring war, let her land her troops and pick wipe 'em out with your ground forces.

 

[Vonjan]

#1 Take a look at who backing her
#2 Ai smells blood the Ai civ is a agressive one she would not attack if she had a backer.
#3 get a spy out and Nuke her horsy production.
#4Get ready to to exspect her little friends.
#5Mount a subversive Counter Attack with her allies .
#6 let her start it then Block anything coming.
#7 Make her really mad and destroy her capital no capture just destroy everything.Do Same with the allies capital.
#8 Have fun...

 

[yavoon]

she has frigates u have destroyers and carriers, I'm not sure it is relevant what u do, so long as u dont abandon ur cities and send her all ur gold.

=D

 

[Vonjan]

hmm i think that's just leftovers,Take notice to artillery and Sam Infantry.
She Probably got her main Forces Moving from the north and will Probably get help of another Vasal Contry.anyway seems he's ok.

 

[yavoon]

hmm i think that's just leftovers,Take notice to artillery and Sam Infantry.
She Probably got her main Forces Moving from the north and will Probably get help of another Vasal Contry.anyway seems he's ok.

ok, yah I didnt see the artillery. if u feel threataned by her I'd declare war and takeout all those ships. the modifier for "u declared war on my friend" isnt that bad.

 

[cf_nz]

I ended up backing my navy to my coast and made Catherine declare war. By keeping the destroyers in a line I did stop the troops from landing, then sank the ships.

Because I've only recently started focusing more on my navy (I never used to bother much) this was the first time I can remember seeing troops heading for me before war was declared.

hmm i think that's just leftovers,Take notice to artillery and Sam Infantry.
She Probably got her main Forces Moving from the north and will Probably get help of another Vasal Contry.anyway seems he's ok.

Yeah must have been leftovers, she did have a number of destroyers and her cities were as well defended as my own (I launched a quick counter attack but got nowhere).

Things did get a little more interesting after her initial attack. Catherine signed a permanent alliance with Ragnar and they came at me from both sides.

To avoid war, you could try bribing one of her neighbours to attack, or possibly put a huge land force near her intended landing site to scare her off, and then follow her around the coast with it, when she's looking for another weak-spot.

Do you reckon that would actually work? I figured the AI would follow through with an attack regardless.

 

[Vonjan]

ya...I hate it when i smell a trap.Jimbo right.. start being nice to the neighborg start getting the borders up to let your troops in Asap. find her main Source iron,gold and coal and get rid of it fast. or else you'll be on the defensive for the rest of the game.dont Hesitate in asking how they feel about other leaders... you will know who you can bribe and who its impossible.

 

[Vonjan]

Update: go directly to ragnar he's your fastest route take out the capital.you can hold the wench off while using a crowbar on ragnar since his tech dont seem that big.

 

[DrewBledsoe]

I had one where monty and genghis teamed up on me, and send wave after wave, all down a long coast...

We were equal or so in tech (mostly musket and some grenadiers age) but they far out stripped me in combined naval power...

So what I did was put virtually the whole side of that continents army in 2 huge stacks leaving the cities almost undefended, and using the navy that I did have, managed to influence the landing spots every time, by bottlenecking where they actually could land. My 2 stacks "shadowed" each invasion force along the coast, and each time a force landed I could immediately assault it.

While this went on, I was building as many ships as possible without commiting them, and eventually had enough to take the fight to their lands.....

Just a possible option when you're navy is outnumbered.

 

[ThePope]

Personally I would attack and own her frigates and transports with your destroyers especially considering how close the game is to being over.

 

[alpha wolf 64]

Could let the troops land and take the easy XPs

 

[jimbob27]

Do you reckon that would actually work? I figured the AI would follow through with an attack regardless.

It might do. I've had it work before.

I had a game where the AI was sending a fleet to a badly defended coastal city (1 archer in the modern era ) and I moved several large stacks of cavalry and tanks right to where they wanted to land. The fleet then went back out to sea, and landed near another city a few turns later. They definately look for weak spots to attack, and it seems they continue to assess the viability of a landing site right up until the turn they land.

 

[Mr. Civtastic]

"Can there be a peace between us?"

"PEACE...NO PEACE"

Ive found in cIV the best security is to kill your enemies before they kill you. Preemptive strikes are what Im all about.

 

[Gr3yL3gion]

I'll just bribe someone to attack them, and in turns i'll mass an army to attack my "friends".