I'm wondering what are some people's strategies on defending against really early invasions? Often within the first year, or very early second year.
This is what I've been doing, but I'd love to hear other people's thoughts and ideas.
1. Walls are a MUST. Playing through the Song-Jin campaign, your enemies immediately send pretty sizable armies containing cavalry/infantry/catapults quite early on. It's impossible to build up an army that can fight evenly on the field, so the city has to be designed with walls in mind.
2. Request or buy steel/weapons within the first few months to get an infantry fort going. So from what I understand, if you don't have any military units you auto-surrender even if you have walls. So you have to have some soldiers by the end of the first year. I find requesting materials, even if it's just steel, much faster than trying to ramp up your steel/wood/weapon industry.
3. Guan Di, if he's available. In the Tang campaigns, you can import some jade and get some jade carvings very early on to summon Guan Di. He is super useful since he can bless your mill with Soybeans, helping you get appetizing food pretty quickly, and he can stock your forts with weapons as well, significantly speeding up building up your army.
I'm super curious to hear if anyone else has strategies/tips to share!
This is what I've been doing, but I'd love to hear other people's thoughts and ideas.
1. Walls are a MUST. Playing through the Song-Jin campaign, your enemies immediately send pretty sizable armies containing cavalry/infantry/catapults quite early on. It's impossible to build up an army that can fight evenly on the field, so the city has to be designed with walls in mind.
2. Request or buy steel/weapons within the first few months to get an infantry fort going. So from what I understand, if you don't have any military units you auto-surrender even if you have walls. So you have to have some soldiers by the end of the first year. I find requesting materials, even if it's just steel, much faster than trying to ramp up your steel/wood/weapon industry.
3. Guan Di, if he's available. In the Tang campaigns, you can import some jade and get some jade carvings very early on to summon Guan Di. He is super useful since he can bless your mill with Soybeans, helping you get appetizing food pretty quickly, and he can stock your forts with weapons as well, significantly speeding up building up your army.
I'm super curious to hear if anyone else has strategies/tips to share!