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Originally Posted by Winner
This is shaping up to be an exiting game. I'll just have to be patient over the weekend, as I am really looking forward to see how the next few turns play out.
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I agree and I'm quite looking forward to the next couple of turns. As Atlantis, I've pretty much had my head stuck under water the entire game and have been only distantly aware of non-aquatic nations (or, in other words, the MAJORITY OF THE GAME). Since we all have a weekend break from the excitement, would people be interested in posting some updates, insights or short AARs? I understand the game is underway and you don't want to give too much away but say what you feel like you can; MP games are made all the more enjoyable by sharing the spectacle of it with others.
...News From Atlantis...
MA Atlantis is a nation with ****ty amphibious troops, decent aquatic troops/summons and awesome but seriously expensive recruit-anywhere commanders. It's like playing Pangaea but wetter and without the stealth or freespawn.
Since Atlantis is a nation of quantity over quality, we went with an awake SC pretender with horrible magical ability so we could afford halfway decent scales (the cold-3 was just for points; heat and cold don't affect income under the water). Using our rugged aquatic-only troops and our SC, our plan was to claim as much underwater real estate as fast as atlantianly possible. We then wanted to plop down a few forts in a picket formation between us and our underwater neighbor, R'lyeh and see where things went from there.
Our research has been furious and expensive (none of our mages are sacred so the upkeep is painful) but if investing in mages over troops was a bad idea, we won't have to live with the mistake for much longer. We promptly entered into a turf war with R'lyeh (I'm sure you're all shocked) which has since escalated into a death match. Both sides have some really large and/or powerful armies but there haven't been any truly major clashes just yet. It's just been a bunch of maneuvering, counter-maneuvering and territory grabs on both sides. Still, the next 2 to 3 turns are likely to have some major, major battles which are likely to determine who gets to claim ownership of the ocean. Sadly our god got caught out in the open (by a rather ill-thought out move on our part) and paralyzed long enough to be mobbed to death. We mourn the loss of Primordius but our Coral Queens will call him back into being soon enough. Just because you got killed is no reason to stop fighting!
R'lyeh has much better troops, pound-for-pound, than what we atlantians can field. They're either cheaper (lobo guard), tougher (crab hybrids) or more tactically flexible (illithids and freaky void-spawn critters) than what we've got. Also, they can field an entire functional army of troops costing only 1 resource apiece, allowing them to churn out armies almost instantaneously (provided they have the money). However, their stuff is expensive and/or requires special leadership, which helps level the playing field. We're hoping that our quantity and superior income will allow us to attrition R'lyeh into submission. We'll see.
Speaking of income, from the charts you may have noticed ours having some crazy spikes and drops in it. Twice now we have felt the need to muster a WHOLE lot of cash really quickly and so have resorted to short bursts of massive, empire-wide over-taxation. That ultimately hurts our net income (you get more money overall from not over-taxing like that) but we're hoping that the large chunks of cash upfront will pay off in the long run with our survival. Whether this proves to be a bold and brilliant play or just the over-reactions of a noob has yet to be seen.
So... what's up with all you land lubbers? The charts indicate that a lot of people are fighting. How's that working out for ya?