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Originally Posted by Sanjuro
Without aviation units, or sufficient fuel to mount a pursuit, perhaps an effective defence for an area against marauders is to copy Alfred the Great's defence of Wessex against the Vikings:
Starting from a defended core, each outlying township is fortified in turn (Alfred called them burhs) to the extent that each can defend themselves in the short term; reinforcements can be called from the neighbouring burhs while the defenders keep the marauders busy. This sort of static defence would be almost useless against a modern army, but against lightly armed marauders (who would probably be unwilling to take serious losses) it might work.
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To be honest, by the time folks are using this kind of system, organised, modern armies will cease to exist.
Nobody would be willing to take excessive casualties so it would work against not just marauders but enemy forces aswell.