[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Psitticine:
EARLY GAME - Securing resources for future use

MIDDLE GAME - Developing resources, research, etc. and pressing against weak enemies

END GAME - Bringing developed power to bear against the tougher opponents

This tends to resemble how it works in SP, and MP, if you're doing well.

Otherwise, it works slightly differently:
EARLY GAME - Your attempt to secure provinces and resources. This will undoubtedly be stymied by a shortage of resources, a number of early battle snafus and pyrrhic victories, and possibly your lab burning down on turn 2 and temple on turn 3.

MIDDLE GAME - Your desperate struggle for survival as somebody ELSE performs the "pressing against weak enemies part"...on YOU.

END GAME - The part of the game where, finally, in despair, you turn your empire over to the AI. Alternatively, if you're like me, you finally go down in a blaze of glory. Or at least in flames.

This is probably the early, middle, and late you're more likely to become familiar with, in MP.

[ March 14, 2004, 23:41: Message edited by: Norfleet ]