This is my typical wartime experience:
Having a tech lead over a neighbor whose territory I covet, I decide to wage war against him. I build up a force to overwhelm the defenses of a city, declare war, and easily take a city.
Now, however, there have been casualties, and the newly captured city has to be garrisoned, and so the force I started with is no longer overwhelming. So, the offensive stalls while replacement units are built, and in the meantime, the enemy is sending units in to harrass me and pillage my improvements. There has to be a better way.
Is the best way to build enough units to take ALL the cities you want to take before declaring war? This would take at least twice as long, preparation-wise.
Or maybe I need more siege units in my stacks. At this stage of the game, I might have a stack of 6-8 maces / swords / axes, escorting two catapults, as a city-taking force. The catapults are mostly for reducing the city defenses to 0%, though I might use one of them for collateral damage just before sending in the shock troops. Is the best way to use more suicide catapults, until the other units will likely suffer no losses in the taking of the city?
Having a tech lead over a neighbor whose territory I covet, I decide to wage war against him. I build up a force to overwhelm the defenses of a city, declare war, and easily take a city.
Now, however, there have been casualties, and the newly captured city has to be garrisoned, and so the force I started with is no longer overwhelming. So, the offensive stalls while replacement units are built, and in the meantime, the enemy is sending units in to harrass me and pillage my improvements. There has to be a better way.
Is the best way to build enough units to take ALL the cities you want to take before declaring war? This would take at least twice as long, preparation-wise.
Or maybe I need more siege units in my stacks. At this stage of the game, I might have a stack of 6-8 maces / swords / axes, escorting two catapults, as a city-taking force. The catapults are mostly for reducing the city defenses to 0%, though I might use one of them for collateral damage just before sending in the shock troops. Is the best way to use more suicide catapults, until the other units will likely suffer no losses in the taking of the city?
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