The impenetrable city

[logicman49]

How Come?

Nobody mentioned what was obvious to me. You should try to attack a civ with 3 stacks each with 2x the cats as regular units. Set up outside of 3 different cities and when all is ready go for it. What I've been doing is as new troops become available, pick a hilly spot just back of the 3 cities and in the middle. This way your enforcements are ready to go in the direction they are needed most and in the unlikely event that the AI gets through your attack you have a force to meet them with. Seems to work fairly well.

[wodan11]

Re: How Come?

Originally posted by logicman49
Nobody mentioned what was obvious to me. You should try to attack a civ with 3 stacks each with 2x the cats as regular units. Set up outside of 3 different cities and when all is ready go for it. What I've been doing is as new troops become available, pick a hilly spot just back of the 3 cities and in the middle. This way your enforcements are ready to go in the direction they are needed most and in the unlikely event that the AI gets through your attack you have a force to meet them with. Seems to work fairly well.

That's "obvious" ? Seems bass-ackwards to me. If you have that kind of numbers of units (able to support not one but 3 stacks plus a 4th stack of reinforcements), then just attack the AI in overwhelming strength all in once place.

Splitting your forces invites defeat in detail, which is a pretty classic military blunder.

Wodan

[Blaupanzer]

Several HA would make that city ripe for the taking by"flanking" the Cats. The rest is all a question of your number of killers versus his number of victims.

[snoopy369]

Umm, you can't flank in a city...

[Blaupanzer]

News to me. Obviously been wasting my cavalry, which appear to damage his cannons. Illusions ...