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parcelt · #1 May 28th, 2008, 01:09 PM

True - and definitely a very interesting aspect of MP fighting. However, in this particular case he is flying with map movement 3, and in the middle of my lands.
There's at least 15 provinces he can choose from... The only good news is that it's just one Jarl - with so many lands its really just an inconvenience, unlike the big armies he has on my borders.... everything is relative!

ano · #2 May 28th, 2008, 01:43 PM

Just defend the most important provinces (with temples or indy mages) well as they are likely targets for his attacks and go take provinces after him. Niefel PD is awful so you shouldn't have trouble with any race. Make your own sc's/thugs, raid him, mind hunt him if he doesn't have good enough MR and so on.

Coldshard · #3 May 28th, 2008, 03:35 PM

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ano said:
Just defend the most important provinces (with temples or indy mages) well as they are likely targets for his attacks and go take provinces after him. Niefel PD is awful so you shouldn't have trouble with any race. Make your own sc's/thugs, raid him, mind hunt him if he doesn't have good enough MR and so on.

Temples provide a defensive boost?

thejeff · #4 May 28th, 2008, 03:40 PM

No, other than raising your dominion.

They're just valuable, so he's likely to hit them.

Coldshard · #5 May 28th, 2008, 03:57 PM

So the comment was to defend those provinces the most rather than use those options to defend them. Ok!

MaxWilson · #6 May 28th, 2008, 06:12 PM

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ano said:
Just defend the most important provinces (with temples or indy mages) well as they are likely targets for his attacks and go take provinces after him. Niefel PD is awful so you shouldn't have trouble with any race. Make your own sc's/thugs, raid him, mind hunt him if he doesn't have good enough MR and so on.

As far as I know, there is no way to tell what provinces produce indy mages except by looking at a stack of them sitting in a province (which probably means it's too well-defended for a thug to take). I would be surprised if the Niefel opponent were successfully able to target your indy provinces. Temples, on the other hand, are quite targetable.

-Max

Ironhawk · #7 May 28th, 2008, 01:46 PM

All you need is a flyer of your own to just go behind him and clean up all the province the enemy raider craps on. That should balance things out.

As for flying meaning you are unable to guess his movements - its not really the case. Put yourself in the shoes of the controller of that SC. He's likely not moving *completely* randomly. The enemy player wants to maximize his damage to you (probably in gold) while minimizing the threat to his raider. So high value provinces which are not near forts or other troop bodies are the most likely targets.