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Atreidi said:
It was not until I played a 500 province map that I remember reading something about players being turtlers and rushers.
I realize now that I am defently a turtle. I expand slow and give priority to building up my defence instead of expancion. I counter my slow expancion with high dominion and very high city defence.
I've tried different strategies but I think Im stuck being a slow-and-steady type of player. Is it like that for everyone? Are you either a Turtle (Defensive) or Rusher (offencive)?
The Defensive strategy works best for small maps and offencive on bigger ones, I've come to learn from my experience.
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Playing a lot of strategy games in SP mode teaches you to turtle. AIs universally tend to be hyperaggressive, and you eventually learn that an unassailable defense means that -anything- that you accumulate over time is an advantage over the computer who is flailing impotently against your walls.
I found that win Dom3, even in SP, the best way to force yourself to understand aggression, is to learn how to build an awake SC. Bear in mind, at first you probably won't do it right, and he'll get afflicted and/or die within the first several turns. After several tries, experimenting with Fear, and Awe, and easily accessed buffs, you will start to get the hang of it. But the trick is to force yourself to use the SC to take a constant string of territories, while still performing your normal expansion attacks with your other forces. So for example as a nation and/or player that tends to just take 1 province per turn for the first year, try to keep yourself gaining 2 per turn, with the aid of your SC.
Then you get to experience the next frustrating thing, being slightly overextended and having 2-3 AIs suddenly declare war on you on opposite sides of your empire before you can get forts in place on your front lines to hold them off.
