Islands/Armies Query

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Hello, here's something that's been bugging me for a while. Say I have an army on an island and I have no navy of my own in a adjacent sea zone. What were to happen if a foreign power were to invade. Naturally there would be a battle, but what would happen if I lost? Would my men keep fighting till they were all killed?

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[PatMaster]

Yes.
Either that or they die when ther moral breaks.

 

[Emre Yigit]

Oh dear

The battle dynamics would take place as usual, but if your morale broke and the army attempted to retreat, it would only be into the arms of Neptune.

Which is also why it is always advisable to keep a fleet nearby if you're mounting an island invasion.

 

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Can't remember how many armies I've lost as Venice trying to hold the Med. islands against the turks. Keep a navy in each port.

In time of war, put the fleet to sea. The enemy will have to fight your ships inorder to land troops on the island. Even if your fleet looses and is forced to retreat, sail right back into the sea zone as soon as you can to give your troops an escape route.

 

[Agelastus]

It's a good idea to keep a fleet around when you're garrisoning a newly conquered province too-I always put the fleet to sea when a Nationalism revolt occurs on a "just in case" basis.

 

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Ta for all the answers

Pete

 

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Just a hint. Playing Portugal recently I've found out, that it is useless to defend islands with garrisons that can easily be beaten with almost any army having a solid general. Try to fortify your islands instead, and use armies on land where they can enjoy the benefits of manoeuvre. Besides, for besieging a medium-sized fortress your enemy needs quite a big army, not to mention the transporting fleet, which U will not have to count with for the time he is besieging your island. Spain always got distracted by wanting to take back the Canary islands when I played Portugal, sending sometimes 30-40k armies, which he was desperately needing on land after a couple of month of successful Portuguese invasion of Madrid. He-he-he.

 

[Agelastus]

Of course-with a big enough fortress besieging armies will just die of attrition on islands-for example, I ignore rebels on Malta if I conquer it as long as I've got a level three fortress-barring the bad luck of a defecting garrison the rebels will soon be gone with no effort on your part.

 

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Originally posted by Agelastus
Of course-with a big enough fortress besieging armies will just die of attrition on islands-for example, I ignore rebels on Malta if I conquer it as long as I've got a level three fortress-barring the bad luck of a defecting garrison the rebels will soon be gone with no effort on your part.

Unexpectedly inheriting Venice is a good way to think up this strategy

 

[Agelastus]

Originally posted by Heyesey


Unexpectedly inheriting Venice is a good way to think up this strategy

Never done that one, I'm afraid (I inherit rarely in my games) Still, Venice normally has a good sized fleet lying around for you to pick up though-and those islands are bloody useful for "power-projextion" in the Eastern Med. area-Turkey's "soft underbelly" as it were!

 

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Originally posted by Agelastus


Never done that one, I'm afraid (I inherit rarely in my games) Still, Venice normally has a good sized fleet lying around for you to pick up though-and those islands are bloody useful for "power-projextion" in the Eastern Med. area-Turkey's "soft underbelly" as it were!

First time I've ever inherited anybody - I was playing as Spain the last few days just because I've been bored a lot, and after refusing to be vassalised five times running, I suddenly inherited them.

Just because I happened to mention to my pet assassin that the Doge was being a real nuisance, doesn't mean I actually intended him to do anything about it....

 

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I've done that before. Only felt guilty for a moment.