Why a defeated player can keep an army ?

My understanding is: Once they have lost all provinces, the units should disappear at the next day change, unless they are able to secure a new territory prior to the day change.

I stand corrected, thank you for clarifying.

No. Even if you have 1 territory and no food, manpower and oil to keep maintaining it, then your army should be gradually disbanded.

No ressources = no army.

Like in the real world.

Peter Mat wrote:

My understanding is: Once they have lost all provinces, the units should disappear at the next day change, unless they are able to secure a new territory prior to the day change.

MontanaBB wrote:

Peter Mat wrote:

My understanding is: Once they have lost all provinces, the units should disappear at the next day change, unless they are able to secure a new territory prior to the day change.

Pete, I believe that only happens immediately to AI countries. I know this is a recent change, but I believe that human players' units remain on the board after they lose their last province, at least until they go inactive.

• In addition, we made an important change to the way troops of defeated players are treated, together with a few bugfixes:
  • When players lose all of their provinces AND become inactive or AI, their remaining armies are removed from the map and relations are reset to peace

Personally I like being able to abandon land and save units to fight another day. Pick your battles. Territory can be regained, units are harder to replace.

I allow my enemies to be drawn into my trap and then eliminate them.

Even if you have no provinces, you can still make deals with other players and get yourself back in the game. An ally could give you a province or resources, and in return you would fight on their side, for example

VorlonFCW wrote:

Personally I like being able to abandon land and save units to fight another day. Pick your battles. Territory can be regained, units are harder to replace.

I allow my enemies to be drawn into my trap and then eliminate them.

Under the new rules as I understand it if your core provinces are re-captured by a coalition member they will return to your control.

So bailing out and waiting for the rest of your coalition to save you is a valid tactic. It may not be one I would choose, but the choice is there.

Besides. If you say they can't recover from this disaster why are you complaining? Just go wipe them out!

Because, from a realistic standpoint, it's nor logical nor possible. No economy = no army.

Because, on the battlefield, we have a lot of things to do next than fighting a few more days against an ennemy already defeated which has, moreover, no chance to come back. It's merely a waste of time.

CoralWar wrote:

Because, from a realistic standpoint, it's nor logical nor possible. No economy = no army.