Changes to Town Defense in v0.200

[oi__io]

In previous version when the town is under attack, all the squad in the garrison will automatically fall under your command so you can position them as you want.

I noticed that in current version v0.200 the garrison will not do that anymore. Instead they will be placed automatically around town to defend on their own. I also noticed that their placement around town is similar to when enemy AI was defending the town when I was attacking.

I only left the injured behind in the garrison so that they can heal after I took it over. That was a mistake on my part. Since I can't control the squad garrisoned in the town during combat and they're low on health, some of them died when they're rushed by Uriy and his 87 squad members. :C

Good news is, we managed to defend the town and now Uriy is one of us!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1465451187

[Nomad]

good to know, will keep this in mind the next time angry poznians come to my town

[oi__io]

Bad news: My garrison in Minov spawned on top of the enemy so most of them insta-die on spawn. I just lost almost half of my garrison. Only the ones that spawned nearer to town center managed to survived. I thought they've already fixed that in v0.202. So sad T_T

I guess for the time being when the town is under attack I'll have to empty the garrison until they fix this issue.

[Nomad]

Publicado originalmente por oi__io:

Bad news: My garrison in Minov spawned on top of the enemy so most of them insta-die on spawn. I just lost almost half of my garrison. Only the ones that spawned nearer to town center managed to survived. I thought they've already fixed that in v0.202. So sad T_T

I guess for the time being when the town is under attack I'll have to empty the garrison until they fix this issue.

same happened to me. i only had some militias in garrison fortunately.

[oi__io]

Yeah, hope they'll fix it soon. I'm at the point where I have a lot of elite squads ready and still training new ones just because I wanted to have elites as garrison to defend the towns plus don't want to over level my squad since their salary skyrocket after certain point.

Veteran elites can cost up to 200 per day while newly leveled up elites only cost 30 something while the benefit is very minimal. I'd rather retire them in the garrison as soon as they level up.

[helfpaw]

I am having the same problem with my garrison troops. They spawn in the enemy and get blasted. I am leaving enough room in my travle army to fit them all in as soon as I arive at the town. Then I have to rush them all to good spots to defened the town.

[DarkFire]

This problem is on the verge of making town defence unviable long term. Garrison squads are constantly spawned in amongst the attacking forces so even upgraded veteran squads are getting wiped out in seconds. The only viable method of preserving experienced troops at the moment seems to be to recruit garrison forces which are made up entirely of disposable, cheap recruits in the full knowledge that the next time the town is attacked most of them will be wiped out. Plus, given how aggressive the AI is at the moment I'm constantly going from town to town fending off attacks from armies that are much bigger than my combined forces. It's great for levelling my elite squads but gets very expensive and makes planning for further expansion a bit of a frustrating experience since I never get left alone to consolidate my conquests.

[oi__io]

Yeah it's a catch-22 for me. In order to have an army strong enough to go on continuous campaign capturing all the towns I will need a steady supply of healthy soldiers. After every large battle there will be injuries so I have to garrison them so that they can heal while I press forward with fresh squads.

If the town they're in are attacked while I'm on the world map, chances are I'm going to lose those elites currently healing in the garrison since I couldn't absorb them in my main army due to squad limit.

I guess you could go full guerrilla and avoid capturing town altogether. Instead keep whittling down all the major factions to the point the only army they have left are the ones garrisoned in their towns but then again the bandits and deserted armies will rule the map.

The cost of maintaining the same elite guerrilla squads to go through all that without swapping them or retiring them to the garrison will be exorbitant making it impossible to continue without money cheat. It's a no win situation. Unless you're sticking with militia only squad and constantly trading them as soon as they level up for new militia squads.

A battle against 100-200 AIs with nothing but militia squads is an interesting challenge I guess. LOL

[DarkFire]

Full guerilla. Hmm, interesting idea. Maybe very slow expansion is the answer, only taking a town when I have a heap of cash on hand, then carefully building up funds again.

[helfpaw]

I take on one faction at a time at the moment. Once they start a war with me i begin to hunt down there patroling armies. This seems to help with the frequincy I am having to defend a town. The info tab will tell you thier troop count. once its down to just there garrisond troops I start taking towns from them. Rinse repeat with the next faction that attacks me. If more then one faction is attacking me i drop the 3000 currency to make peace. Then they are the next on my list lol.

[oi__io]

Yeah I did the same in previous version. Only attack one faction at a time and never stop until they're eliminated. In current version I decided to ignore Uman so that I could use them as training partner and go for CFR first. Before I managed to wipe them out I couldn't help myself from attacking FCA too just because I wanted to capture their generals. LOL

Now CFR is completely out of the picture but FCA keeps sending their troops to attack my town. I managed to capture their last general by defending my town. I'm slowly eliminating their roaming squad one by one before taking the fight to their towns.

I noticed that ARF is a bit hostile towards me when I play earlier today. I didn't remember ever getting into a fight with them. Maybe one of their squad attacked one of my towns and lost so now they're mad at me? Sometimes when defending I didn't pay attention to who the attacker was. Since I'm not ready to fight them yet I just pay for the truce.