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DominionsFan said:
Well "small" map for us means 120 land provinces for a 4 player game, 180 for 6 players and 240 provinces for 8 players. [Water provinces are between 16 and 42] Usually I've never used any fast strategies, since imho I couldn't win a game this way against the lads who I am playing with. I doubt that it will work, but I will try it tomorrow, we will have a 4 player TCP/IP game.
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That's not really "small". Usual small map for 4-player blitz is Urgaia (AFAIR, approx 60 provinces). 120 provinces for 4 players is more like "sparse medium" map. Fast bless strategy can still work, but I'd expect MP-specific problem.
If your opponents play slow strategy you'll likely quickly steamroll one of your opponents and after that remaining 2 will quickly forge alliance against you. You may try to make something like the following: expand quickly toward opponent A. When he sees your scary early armies he will get concerned, but you can offer to stop expanding any further in that direction in exchange either for defensive treaty vs opponent B or aggressive pact vs opponent B. In the first case you can expand like mad toward B, be unreasonable in negotiations, leave your provinces open and make sure you cut-off all his paths for expansion. In the latter case you just attack B. But, of course, it's just a feint and you won't be dedicating much forces to that war. Your real goal is quickly conquer opponent C. By the time the dust settle you should be able to take over C and make good inroads into B (who has to fight 2 fronts). At this stage opps will probably realize what's happening and A will change sides, but he'd still need to reprofile his army vs you, so you should have a chance fighting vs both of them for the rest of the game.