Re: Yes, of course it\'s been asked before, but...
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well, the only thing that comes to mind as possible hope is to pillage your home province with your starting forces for as much cash as you can, and trying to hire a necromantic mercenary, empowering him, and having him summon a Dusk Elder. That would get you out of a dead end, but I can't imagine anything else. You sure as hell can't hope a necromancer simply voluntarily JOINS you with Misfortune 3, and you better hope you can get all this done before your lab and temple burn down!

That, or maybe trying to empower your way to death-3 minimum.

[ February 16, 2004, 06:34: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

Re: Yes, of course it\'s been asked before, but...
 

If Ermor didn't have such a large gem income (at default world richness, at least), you'd really be dead. But your Crone will be able to Empower in Death in only a few turns... so if your lab is still there by then, you can actually stand a very slim chance.

If you "cheat" by pitting Weak AIs against Indep 9, maybe you'll even do it...

I'd try, if I didn't find Ermor so boring. Maybe.

Re: Yes, of course it\'s been asked before, but...
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, but it's still sadistically hard, and you won't be able to do ANYTHING at all for many, many turns. And this is supposed to be sadistically hard. Cheating by using Weak AIs against Independent 9 would be defeating the purpose. You have to play with all impossible AIs on poor richness map with independent 9!

Preferrably with all 17 nations, on my "Horrible 17 Province Test Map".

Okay, so maybe the independent setting is completely irrelevant on a fully loaded 17 province test map.

[ February 16, 2004, 06:37: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

Re: Yes, of course it\'s been asked before, but...
 

Laugh! Well, playing on a 17-province map with 17 nations, with the doom setup, sounds more like a case of playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun and hoping it jams.

PvK