[PvK]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Stormbinder:
You forgot to mention mad castling. Did you play without it as well?

The castles were built to keep out pesky enemy VQs, since everyone knows vampires can't come inside unless they're invited. Besides, what ELSE would you build in a province? Temples would explode constantly. Plus that annoying sacred troop limit requires castles to enable their churn-out, temples to increase the rate at which they can be churned out...and castles again to protect said temples.

Everything in Dom2 boils down to those temples, after all, and when your production bandwidth depends on those temples, even losing control of one temporarily as suggested in a proposed solution would be unacceptable.

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Apparently, that's a "no, he didn't do without castle-spamming"!

Sometimes Norfleet makes a lot of sense to me, and sometimes, like above, he makes very little sense to me:

"Everything in Dom2 boils down to those temples, after all..."

It does? Temples do several things, but I don't think any of my games have "boiled down" to temples. Then, I haven't used many immortals, nor relied on blessed national units.

"Besides, what ELSE would you build in a province?"

What kind of question is that? How about, nothing, building things in production centers instead? How about, an occasional good indy unit that is worth buying? How about, a lab? Or, PD?

PvK

[ May 28, 2004, 00:58: Message edited by: PvK ]