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Thufir said:
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deccan said:
Haven't seen frosted flake around, but damn he's playing arco against type. All expansion and no research. I'm particularly interested in seeing a well-played arco since in all my SP games, the AI plays arco very badly even if given a good position on the map.
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Well, I haven't done much MP yet, but so far, in the opening game I always choose expansion over research, if I have that option. The fact that frosted has been able to expand at 1-2 provinces per turn since turn 1 is impressive to me. With the income from all those provinces he's taking, I expect he'll be able to make up on research soon enough.
I'm also wondering about his pretender design - sounds like it's capable of taking indies from turn 1. What kind of pretender can do that? And of course I must ask  -what kind of weaknesses come with such a pretender?
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hm perhaps a trampler like earth mother / shedu ?
a wrym can probably too .
the advantage with arco is that he doesn't need to care too much about afflictions because later his priestesses can heal them .
a wyrm with a fireshield e.g. would probably work against indies on turn 2 quite well .
i don't like the wyrm though because he is so expensive and has no slots
an artillery pretender can do too with the initial army :
a earth 9 cyclops with flying shards or a fire 9 moloch with fire darts ( evo 1 ) can rout most indies with the initial army only