Re: does anyone else think province defense can be levied to quickly?
I love using chokepoints but like many things in this game there is a balancing factor which keeps them from being a killer strategy. Dom2 is designed as a PBEM multiplayer game which plays on many operating systems. Thats something to keep in mind when pointing out things that are "broken".
Like MANY things about this game, PD and chokepoints can be very effective against certain nations but as long as other nations have a counter for it then the overall multiplayer balance is achieved. PD and Jotun go hand in hand. One of Jotuns built-in advantages is their ability to make the most effective use of PD of any of the nations in the game (though its also a balance to Jotuns difficulty in massing armys of its own national units). Ulms I believe comes in second. But flying armies, sneaking armies, and armies that can be summoned directly to an enemies province; are all built-in advantages to certain other nations.
In small games or solo games against few AI's there will always seem to be imbalanced features. Some nations are just going to have a tremendously hard time against certain nations and an easier time against others. But if everything was smoothed out vs every 2-nation possibility we would end up with vanilla units that differ only in color. There are already too many games like that.
[ March 31, 2004, 15:44: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]
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