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Pkaw! Pkaw! Nevermore!

Re: Pretenders Playtime - An EA Pbem Beginners gam
 

This is my first multiplayer game. I'm having a really slow start. I got a couple bad luck events early on. Its going ok now.

C'tis is my neighbors too. We'll see how that goes.

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This is my second multi-player game. Got absolutely hammered in my first game but it was a lot of fun.

I've also had a horrible setback in this game which I am trying to recover from. Ran into a bunch of mages with all my best troops on the fourth or fifth turn and got wiped out which has really slowed my expansion. Slowly getting back into the swing of things now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Was it those sneaksy air mages that I never notice? Never looks too bad until round 4-5 of combat, then comes the Lightning Bolt spam.....

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Exactly, Jim. They were the ones. I've never seen them before. That Orb Lightening (level 5 spell) just rips through your troops.

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Don't suppose you'd care to tell us which province these bad dudes are in would you http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif?

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All those first timers - welcome! Second game for me.

On the topic of sob stories...

Helheim has lots of troops who have glamour. Glamour gives troops mirror image in battle. I didn't realise that it also gives stealth. Until I sent my non stealth prophet to attack a province with all stealth co combatants. I think he was more surprised than I was to find himself facing 40 woodsmen...alone.

Let's just say it hasn't been the fastest start for me either! But hey its a noob game, and still awesome fun!

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That right there is tangled up with the issue of why I refuse to Prophet my starting scout (or any scout). Then they're the stealthy ones who try to avoid going in to bless your army and smite your foes, and they get Leader 0 so you can't even drop non-stealthy troops onto them to force them to go in.....

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You just have to be careful and always put them to move not sneak, and it's useful to have a stealthy prophet in many ways, and you can always put crown of command or something alike on him to make him a leader

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I've noticed that making scouts prophets is pretty popular - why? Is it just to play games with other players dominion? Unless you're playing against mictlan it seems little benefit. But I must be missing something...