Post Attack

[Cocopopo25]

Why can people just keep attacking you and there is no break?  How does that help, cannot collect resources to rebuild or reman the army to protect your self.  Is there something I am missing other than the vacation that has to be purchased?

[deathruin]

if it's just one person, capitulation will work and it would be free.
if it's more.... then it would start costing gems.

as far as army goes, they can't get to them if they are on evasion or are not mobilized, you just have to try and protect your army. once you built up a decent army, kill a couple barb camps if you can, caskets are good because the resource in it can't be robbed until you open it. save up a few caskets(of different level and/or type) and pop them in one go when you want to buy something expensive.

[trinity2575]

The best thing to do is be active. Keep your resources spread out in your provinces. If you have to leave, get a babysitter. If you can not find a sitter, send your army away on a very long attack, or hide in a colony. We have all had the constant attacks, and it is best to keep your army safe, and be active. You can always use the capitulate if you have too.

[Angela]

A 100% defense is hardly possible, but follow these steps:
- do not leave large amounts of resources, so that your empire couldn’t seem tempting to the enemies;
- keep archers and ballistae in the Fortress;
- try to maintain high levels of Fortresses, mostly in the capital;
- do not leave your army on the field;
- keep many spies on the field and raise Counter-espionage levels whenever you can afford it, so that they couldn’t spy on you;
- keep raising Fortification, so that your Fortress is stronger, and Military Architecture, so that it gathers more archers in garrison;
- Box your capital or the province you are used to leave your resources in, by annexing all provinces it shares a border with;
- if some player goes hard on you with constant attacks, capitulate;

[alander]

About that boxed capital... what exactly does it gain? when I did that nothing was added to it from what I could see.

[deathruin]

it decreases enemy moral by 20 when they attack. Doesn't really do anything for you if they choose field fight/pillage but in fortress siege, it makes the enemy much more likely to run away.