What can I do standing near enemy land?

[AntKeeper]

At last there are other players in my city. While walking I visited other player's land but I couldn't find any option I could do standing near that land. All I could do was to attack the land from my base waiting for 10 minutes. But why should I wait if I am near the land? It doesn't stimulate walking, doesn't allow some tactics. You can sit at home doing absolutely the same. Something more interesting should be invented for such cases. Not sure what exactly. Balance should be kept too.

[Eerienkah]

You could've build a land really close to stop him from expanding.

You could've build a tower on your land and fire.

 

[Mr. D]

@Eerienkah is right!

Capturing a land on the border of another player's land can be a major pain for their expansion.

You can indeed build a guard tower to deal additional damage more frequently, or capture multiple lands and build more than one guard tower to have an even shorter cooldown period between tower attacks.

However, any ideas are also welcome.  

[AntKeeper]

It was level 1 so it takes the same time to just capture it from the base even sitting at home. So it still doesn't stimulate walking. Maybe that tactics is more helpful for well-defended lands as guard tower doesn't spend armies.

[Mr. D]

That makes sense, yes; well-defended larger lands are a much better target for guard towers.

However, I'm out of ideas in regard to making level 1 enemy encounters more interesting. Any suggestions?

[Grizzlyfilms]

Tag the enemy land as an interest for you (to get more diplomatic options and more feling)

Go trough a diplomatic option to slowly make the enemy polulation on your side and stuff 

If you played HOI4 and stellaris mabye you can get some ideas from those games

Give the option to tax/treath to tax (they. An keeper the land but must give something.