At over 40 miles, that would take far too long and give too much time for reinforcing. It's about 1h 50m for warriors, but only 39m for phracts. Spamming away the abatis with cavs would only have alerted the alliance to a possible large attack inbound, thus they'd send reinforcements, or do the ever-popular tactic of sharing logins and signing onto the account.
I adapted to the scenario that was in front of me and addressed the situation accordingly. The waves all landed within a few seconds, and it was rewarding to see the fruits of my few weeks of labor to make it happen.
Also, the ultimate objective wasn't to defeat him outright, but only contain him, to keep him from attacking other members of my alliance that were close or reinforcing his own alliance due to needing his reinforcements for himself. The tough talk that was being made wasn't being made towards me, but towards others in my alliance. I got tired of it all, and got involved.
That is known as "strategy".
That's also why one has to keep a large and properly configured army, to defend against sudden attacks that give no warning to the rest of the alliance if the player is not online and sees the inbound attack in time.






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