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Originally Posted by Squirrelloid
I've actually enjoyed the 150% gold/resources because I like army play a lot more than random totally uber guys running around. That said, i'm starting to run into battleground size limitations with my main army (I really want to spread out more!). But still, legions of dai-bakemono with mage support has been much more satisfying to me than making some uber-thugs or SCs to take down Ashdod's giants. (Also, i think 150%g/r is enough that Ashdod actually got to field things that look like armies of giants rather than just a few uber guys with retinues).
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It's fun all right. My concern is that it isn't "realistic", as in you won't find any other games that play this way. If the point is to teach you, well I know you've learned plenty, but standard settings would have taught counters better. When all you're doing is slamming big armies into big armies, the guy with the biggest army wins. Most of the time you can't change the size of your army in the time you have between scouting an attacking force and defending against it. I'm of the opinion that it's fortunate that in Dominions, the right spell picks and equipment and thug scripts and so forth has an effect much larger than the size of the army. In the end, the size of the army supporting those picks is a relatively minor factor. For example, when you (Shinu I presume) wiped Ashdod's army/thugs with Ice Pebble Staffs, you could have done that backed by an army half the size.
What these settings do is scale back the effect of these counters. It's foreign to me, and perhaps to some of the rest of the vets, because it doesn't resemble the game I'm used to playing. In a sense, many of you noobs have a big experience advantage on me here. Whether it makes for a good game or not, I'm not going to judge.
Anyway, the vets are used to my monologues on IRC, but you guys aren't, and I've rambled on long enough.