debutant sur dominion
 

i have some probleme to begin the game, i have see the tutorial on the forum. but some questions : the gmae is not too hard in mode easy?
to begin the game which god take and the forteress? which is the first thing to do in the beginning of the game? recruit or ? i have to take some places near my fortress to have some money? how placed my troups in the battle ?i don't understand the rectangles blues and red, teh differnce between the rectangles at the right of the leaders and the other at the right of troops? if somebody can help to begin the game.
also the differents "balances" of differents colors when i click in a province information ?
thinks to help me.
phil

Re: debutant sur dominion
 

I'm unfortunately having difficulty understanding you, but I'll try to answer your question.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The game shouldn't be too hard on easy: The enemies get fewer points to build their pretenders with.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">This will very greatly depending on your nation and strategy. I can't help you unless you're a little more specific.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Recruiting, particularly mages, for researching, as well as some units, is a good plan.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The rectangles indicate the unit's starting position on the battlefield when a battle starts. Both of the rectangle boxes perform the same effect, for the leader, and for his squads, respectively.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Those are the scales of the province. Scales influence things like income, resources, random event probability, magical research, and population growth or death. I think that's what you're talking about, yes?

Re: debutant sur dominion
 

Hey, you're giving French teachers of English a bad name http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

OK, I'll try to help here - though the French-speaking forums of PC4War would also be a good place for you to ask this kind of questions.

The AI level only changes how many points the AI gets to spend on pretender design, not how well they play; so if you have trouble with the game's mechanisms, it's likely that any level of AI will give you trouble.

Pretender and castle choices vary greatly on what your strategy will be. For a beginner, I suggest you don't try to make too heavy use of your pretender, so a good researcher, possibly with many paths of magic for site-searching, would be a good idea. Castle-wise, the 80 pt castle with 40% Admin is a good standard choice: the Admin bonus is important, as it commands how many resources you will "drain" from the adjacent provinces into the one with the castle - since you can build your national troops only in provinces with castles, this is important.

For early games, I suggest playing a nation with not too many Magic paths. Ulm (basic theme) is pretty straightforward: only one mage, specializing in Earth magic with a little Fire, and two special abilities: forging items (research Construction for that) costs them 25% fewer gems, and they don't suffer a Research penalty in Drain dominions (this lets you take Drain3 as your dominion, which gives you 120 "free" points).

Since Ulm needs huge amounts of resources for their heavily armored units (both the various types of Infantry, and the cavalry), you really must take a good Productivity bonus as your scale (+3). Taking Order never hurts (will mostly increase your Gold income), even though Gold isn't the most important thing for recruiting Ulm infantry (Cavalry is a different matter).

As for your troop placement... well, your Infantry is slow-moving, but tough: you typically will want to place it on the front of the battlefield (right side). Small squads let you separate them better, but larger squads have better morale, and since you don't have easy access to level 3 priests (which is required for Sermon of Courage, the basic morale-enhancing spell), using largish squads (15+) will be often better. Anyway, it all depends on what you will be facing; experiment for this, and scout neighbouring provinces to know what kinds of troops, and how many, are there.

On the army screen, you have a square for each squad and for each leader, with a smaller white square for their positions on the battlefield (and red squares for the other troops). Click on it to place your troops somewhere else, remembering that left is back (away from the enemy), and right if front (closer to the enemy). Top/bottom are left/right flank. Then you can give orders to the various leaders and troops. When giving spell orders, keep in mind that spells often have a limited range (when watching a battle replay, press "g" to see the battle grid: range is counted in number of squares).

And, try to read the tutorial (linked on the Illwinter site, among others). It's about playing Jotunheim, which may not be the easiest nation to start with, but it's very detailed and helpful.

Re: debutant sur dominion
 

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif thinks to sergent and captain for your help, i'll try to use your informations and tips about the game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif i'll come back to the forum if i have a problem. okay, and thinks!
phil

Re: debutant sur dominion
 

Would it be worthwhile getting some volunteers together to translate the tutorial/walthrough into french?