Beating Perfect Defence: One man's quest. [REPORTS]

~PREFACE~

This post and those that follow, as I chronicle my perennial struggle against Perfect Defence, will contain a lot of whining, a lot of hate and a lot of buttfrustration directed at Perfect Defence strategy (PD). Take it with a grain of salt, if you please. I'm a renowned troll in these parts.

That being said, I've had enough of being dismantled by easy-mode PD users who just patiently sit in their cities, dismantling wave after wave of attacks directed at them, and then casually walk all over you with that cheap, hated unit: Infantry. I myself would never stoop so low as to play the damn thing myself; thus, I've decided to try every other strat in turn against some of the best PD players I know (in fact, if you want fairly easy SP, drop me a message and we'll duel. The only condition is that you have to use PD, and that we're in Europe or Europe+)



1. Know thine Enemy

PD relies almost exclusively on infantry spam (transports notwithstanding). They won't use destroyers, tanks or bombers, since these have nerfed stats. Perhaps later on in game, some use Marines, but I've rarely seen this happen. Fully upgraded and with a general, infantry are LETHAL. They have the highest defence of purchasable units in game, along with enough attack to seriously worry anyone who isn't playing a very defensive strat themselves. 10 PD infantry can take out 10 neutral militia (without a general): the PD player will expand pretty much as fast as most other strats. Don't kid yourself, as I did, into thinking they have any sort of handicap when compared to using normal infantry. They don't. The infantry is fast, it's resilient, and above all: dirt cheap.


2. Journal Entries

In all of the below entries, the map is always Europe. Starting funds were 5000, and the opposing player was naturally using PD. The name of the entry is the strat I used. I will update more once I get through the different strats.

A) Guerilla Warfare

Me: Greece, Him: Ukraine. He was on his way to winning a clean victory before disconnection issues plagued him. Controlled Athens and two of my cities. Had this been a capture capital game, he would've won it before getting disconnected. (It was a country capture). My militia couldn't do anything against PD infantry inside cities (5 atk vs. 8 defence, I need more than twice as many miltia to beat them). The marines I had time to make (8 attack) had to get past defence lines, which is a perfectly valid way to fight against GWF. I have concluded before, and this match served to prove it, that Guerilla Warfare is possibly the worst strat to use against PD. Slow development, weaker or more expensive units.


B) Blitzkrieg

Me: Denmark, Him: Greece. Result: victory to Greece.
Very tight match. My quick expansion power helped me never run out money, but the -2 defence was a great setback. It forced me to use defence lines around every capital, or I would lose it. Turkey/Greece is a total of 4 high pop. cities, or 32 units on reinforcement week. I could've tried an alternative approach: attacking him in those critical first weeks (1-4) instead of expanding to Ukraine, Poland, France...
My tanks could do nothing: 16 tanks lost to 16 infantry at some point in Rome (12 infantry died - that's a 25% survival rate for him). I resisted for a while, mainly due to skilled defence-lining in central Europe with my faster militia. bombers were not really an option, but I should've used more to break up his defence lines. Having long range is cool.
Will definitely try Blitzkrieg again, I was close. Next up: Great Combinator