Re: The Art of War - EA Vanilla Newbs Game 8/8 (Running)
 

Ouch, well I am out.

Mistakes made:
-A crucial stale
-Not paying attention to Dom until too late
-Bad gem management, did not correctly thug out my SCs
-The issue with not stating what kind of NAP I intend to have
-A bad call with my Pretender God. Should have kept him to spread Dominion
-On top of that, I subbed in at turn 29 with only Thaumaturgy 5 (and nothing else) being researched. Also, why would anyone ever choose that snake Pretender?

Re: The Art of War - EA Vanilla Newbs Game 8/8 (Running)
 

There seems to be a lot of unfortified temples in this game. I've taken out about 14 from Tien Chi and I think both Caelum and Neif have them too, although not as many. Thankfully I can use fire Melquarts, which are pretty terrible for anything else, to sacrifice 6 slaves a turn once I give them a jade knife.

I've noticed that now I've played in a couple of games after I design a pretender and am happy with it, the last thing I do is take a look to see if there is any way I can squeeze in just 1 more point of dominion without damaging the overall gameplan. It's important in so many small ways that I think a lot of people undervalue it.

Unfortunately I think formoria got stuck in a pretty small area at the start, combined with the cost of kings, that probably explains the lack of research.

Re: The Art of War - EA Vanilla Newbs Game 8/8 (Running)
 

Well, level 5 research in 1 school isn't a particularly bad amount of research for year 1, but the question is what value does that level of Thau have in the early game.

Re: The Art of War - EA Vanilla Newbs Game 8/8 (Running)
 

This is the crux of both our problems thus far. One of us should have consumed the other 20+ turns ago and set themselves up as a credible player on the global stage. Instead, now that I've finally consumed Fomoria I have to work hard to even have a realistic shot of threatening the Big 2.


You put up a very strong fight despite your poor starting position and the stale. I was desperately trying to figure out how to kill those damn morrigans, good thing my Pretender was hanging out in the area to hurt your domspread.

Re: The Art of War - EA Vanilla Newbs Game 8/8 (Running)
 

You also attacked me just before I got Dance of the Morrigan as a Battle Spell, that would have changed things I think.

Well, I learned a lot!


Btw: I subbed in in turn 28, which is middle of year 2 ;)

And dont get me started on the horrible horrible pretender...

Re: The Art of War - EA Vanilla Newbs Game 8/8 (Running)
 

With a name like Trouser Snake you just know it's gonna....well, you know.

Re: The Art of War - EA Vanilla Newbs Game 8/8 (Running)
 

Yeah the start was very lopsided, basically it was like...

........Neif....Form
....TNN
...........................Ulm*
Me

............................Cael*

......Man
..........................TC

The asterisks indicate positions that I'm not 100% on...

Re: The Art of War - EA Vanilla Newbs Game 8/8 (Running)
 

Could we please have an extra 24 hrs, a lot happened this turn.

Re: The Art of War - EA Vanilla Newbs Game 8/8 (Running)
 

Postponing by 24 hours.

Re: The Art of War - EA Vanilla Newbs Game 8/8 (Running)
 

So I'm going to be out of town for two weeks starting next sunday, and I'm curious if it's even worth getting a sub, considering my position. Any thoughts?