Re: Getting my butt handed to me playing the demo!
 

You can make it a bit easier on if you set the independent settings to 6 or 7, because that slos the AI down a bit in the early stages. Slows you as well, but I've found Indies 7 to be optimal for balancing AIs. Impossible ones anyway. I still often get steamrollered if I encounter an impossible AI too early and it has gotten too much of an advantage.

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Thank you for this. I have been reading over the older posts and was thinking that for my next game I will adjust this setting to allow for a slower paced game and to allow my older and more idle brain to get accustomed to the game mechanics. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Re: Getting my butt handed to me playing the demo!
 

Just one?

Re: Getting my butt handed to me playing the demo!
 

No. Usually it happens that I encounter one, proceed to kick the snot out of it and then get jumped by two or three others and that's it. Depends on the terrain too, if there are no chokepoints, it's worse.

I did get completely flattened by a single AI one time. Started 3 provinces away from MA Ulm when playing Eriu. The horde of Guardians it threw at me was completely ridiculous and my army consisted mostly of Tuatha Warriors. It wasn't pretty...

Re: Getting my butt handed to me playing the demo!
 

In my last play through with independents set to 7, I had the AI on the ropes when the demo timed out.

Or should I should say, the AI's beat up on each other leaving me alone to quietly build up and then take the victor on.

I am slowly getting the hang of it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smirk.gif

Edit: received notification that my game shipped. If all goes well, I should have it before the end of next week http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

Re: Getting my butt handed to me playing the demo!
 

I lost recently to the AI when I was playing as machaka with a turmoil luck build. I just had terrible events, unlucky battles and then a big marignon army of cavalry showed up and blasted through my provinces one by one as ctisian dominion swept over me. Nasty. I can usually thrash several impossible AIs at once, but anyone can get caught out every now and then.

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Welcome aboard, Candew.

All that has been said before is TRUE !!!
You'll soon become a nolife ... Too bad for you ...

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You have make the RIGHT joice ! This is the best game ever, and I am a kind of gamer, believe me !
Since I have it, I almost only play it, and nothing else (with VERY few exceptions, to be honest).
And it is more than 18 months ago !!!

So, say farewell to your friends, your family, your pet, your job, the society in general, and BECOME A GOD TO DOMINATE OTHERS !!! (Wel, at least virtually http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif)

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There is only one true god, Qxel, and it's not you or him... Bow before the only mighty true god.... [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon01.gif[/img]
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... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif
Yes I know...

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Funny ...

I thought it was ME, the true God ...

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A good mod for a new player is my Beowulf mod. It buffs MA Man by giving them a hero to start the game. It also removes old age from their crones, resulting in less micromanagement for new players.

Man is a good race to learn the game with as it has a good mix of infantry, cavalry, bowmen, and base evocation magic.

http://www.mediafire.com/?z1d4zsim9nx

just download it and extract it to dom III/mods folder. then when you start up the game, select preferences and enable the mod, then play ma man and you should give the AI a good battle!