How do you actually use scorched earth in your games?
Like this?
1. Scorch one of your provinces
2. Let their big stack try to take it
3. After attrition hits, attack them
Because I've tried that and I dislike that tactic for several reasons:
1. If they have a doom stack, chances are high that they will just take the province before attrition can really hurt them and have much less problems afterwards.
2. When you attack you can have up to -3 on your rolls.
3. In the beginning of a war they might not attack with a doom stack but with far smaller armies which are only a little or not bothered by attrition.
4. You risk getting a province sieged, thus gaining war exhaustion.
I prefer the following method:
1. Have a small defense army in a border province
2. Have cavalry stacks in the provinces behind
3. When they are tempted by the small defense army, merge the cavalry and defense forces at the time of the enemies arrival
Advantages:
1. No extra war exhaustion
2. No risk of losing the province
3. Defensive bonus
If you use scorched earth differently, please let me know.
Like this?
1. Scorch one of your provinces
2. Let their big stack try to take it
3. After attrition hits, attack them
Because I've tried that and I dislike that tactic for several reasons:
1. If they have a doom stack, chances are high that they will just take the province before attrition can really hurt them and have much less problems afterwards.
2. When you attack you can have up to -3 on your rolls.
3. In the beginning of a war they might not attack with a doom stack but with far smaller armies which are only a little or not bothered by attrition.
4. You risk getting a province sieged, thus gaining war exhaustion.
I prefer the following method:
1. Have a small defense army in a border province
2. Have cavalry stacks in the provinces behind
3. When they are tempted by the small defense army, merge the cavalry and defense forces at the time of the enemies arrival
Advantages:
1. No extra war exhaustion
2. No risk of losing the province
3. Defensive bonus
If you use scorched earth differently, please let me know.