[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by tkobo:
Can someone do an after action report on a game of thiers and post it.

A whole game? That would be a huge post. And then there would be a a hundred Posts analyzing it all.

There have been a couple on Dom 1 which would be helpful. We could dig those up. Until then I can do a couple turns which some might find helful.

Make it explicit and with explanations on what you did,why you did it, and how.

OK but these are just quick moves. Nothing that will stand up under heavy analyzing....

CREATE GOD because I cant play without one

ULM because they are fairly easy to play

TITAN because he doesnt die easily if I make mistake

named him Urkle because I thought Urkle of Ulm would be funny

then I clicked on CASTLE and chose the Fortfied City becasue it has a high admin which Ulm can use. The 80 creation points is alittle high for others though

then I clicked on DOMINION and turned ORDER up 3 notches (left clicked 3 items on ORDER). I turned PRODUCTION up 3, COLD down 1 (right click) just to get some points back and hopefully it wont bother Ulm too much. GROWTH up 1. LUCK up 1. Magic down 3 to get some points back and Ulm doesnt count on magic much. I added 1 to DOMINION power to help push those scale settings ahead of my army easier.

I EXIT that and go to MAGIC. I have him 1 magic point in FIRE and 1 in NATURE just so someone had them. His mages get fire and earth magic. Exit that area.

hit READY then choose CREATE GAME. I clicked on pythium, man, ULM, ctis, marignon, and pangaea. They all should have gone to "easy AI" except Ulm saying HUMAN. Fairly easy opponent choices. Then hit OK.

I chose "the Desert Eye" because it was biggest.

I named the game Ulm because I planned to have a game for each race and might want to remember which is which.

Now choose "PLAY EXISTING GAME", ULM, then Play Game.

Select ULM (turn nbr 1)

read the Messages and then EXIT

now you are looking at a game in progress. Click around. Check things out......

When you are ready, get back to your home province by hitting the "home" key on you keyboard.

In the box at the upper left I click on taxes and change it to 200 %. Thats going to make them mad but I need some money.

The top army unit on the left side of the screen I click on the "defend" and change it to patrol. That should take care of some of the anger.

The next unit down is a spy. Right-click it and you will see the brown robe emblem meaning he can sneak into provinces that you dont own. Left click him so he is lit up and move him to a neighboring province.

Urkle I click on the "defend" and change it to "research"

On the right side I click on MERCENARIES. If any are available then I try to make an offer to hire them.

Then I click on RECRUIT UNITS. I select another Spy, and as many crossbows as I can get since the units I already have are melee with no fire support. (unless the mercs you hired are shooters) then EXIT that.

Now I click on the End Turn at upper right of the screen.Then click on HOST, then on ULM (turn nbr 2)

OK, This time the neighboring provinces have given up some info. You can right-click on them and use the "Province Info" button to get a guess at whats there to meet you. Pick an easy target, hit "a" to select everyone, then left-click on the target province to make the movement arrow appear saying you did good.

Probably you should buy more units. A Smith, and more crossbows since you will need to rebuild a patrolling unit later and crossbows are cheap.

Hit End Turn, then choose HOST, then Ulm (turn nbr 3). This time the Messages mention a combat which you get to watch.