I had to think about Kurt's response about how everyone will just make a stack of doom anyways. One way to mitigate, but not eliminate, this issue is to have supply lines be a thing. Trace a supply line of friendly provinces back to a homeland city or operate at reduced effectiveness and possibly take damage. Otherwise you are correct - I have a very nice line of defense across my border, a stack of doom came through and took my cities in the back, and is free to take everything else as well.
Another way to deal with this is to start reducing melee effectiveness at 5 units instead of 10. This is actually as a much simpler method, and could be used as a first step towards moving in the direction of a "battle line" being something that is useful and exists.
Having thought about zones of control - these won't be necessary if the number of provinces is reduced.
It COULD be done. Things CAN move in the direction being discussed in this thread. I'd like to hear a couple of things from the developers (ok we'd all like a LOT of things!).
Number 1: do they have an opinion on this turning CON into the kind of game that is being discussed here
Number 2: if not, in about a week after they have had a chance to think about it and discuss it (or just dismiss it out right), what are there thoughts about the possibility of anything like this becoming reality?
Another way to deal with this is to start reducing melee effectiveness at 5 units instead of 10. This is actually as a much simpler method, and could be used as a first step towards moving in the direction of a "battle line" being something that is useful and exists.
Having thought about zones of control - these won't be necessary if the number of provinces is reduced.
It COULD be done. Things CAN move in the direction being discussed in this thread. I'd like to hear a couple of things from the developers (ok we'd all like a LOT of things!).
Number 1: do they have an opinion on this turning CON into the kind of game that is being discussed here
Number 2: if not, in about a week after they have had a chance to think about it and discuss it (or just dismiss it out right), what are there thoughts about the possibility of anything like this becoming reality?