Some people will say that you can recover, making a couple strattegic
attacs taking out critical buildings, and you've suddenly collapsed
your enemies army. Easy? Not at all. If for example, your enemy has a
unit advantage, and thus a stregth advantage, they can probably fend
off any attack that you whipped at them. If there was a way to
"waypoint" units, if you where able to guide your units around the
enemy base, the longer route (which they never normally take without
huge chunks of restricted, which normally keeps workers from doing
their job), you could make strategic attacks. You could attack from
behind, and lay the same struggle on your enemy to defend as they did
to you, which will balance things out. But in the current game, your
units attack from the front, or they can go around if you place huge
chunks of restricted zone, which sometiems they will still find an
alternate route from the way you want them to go (such as on the
water), and still be attacking the front. If you do manage to get your
units to go around, tehy will often get hungry on the way going there,
and starve on the way back. Especially troublesome if theres no
resource to make an itnermediette inn at.