Garrisoned Unit Question

[alexti]

Yeah, it's often very important to have low morale troops. Dozen Jotun giants attack poorely defended Marignon province. When they arrive there they discover a score of crossbowmen enemy reenforced by Ice Devil. Ice Devil casts buffs, crosbowmen fire. Jotun giants think "surely, our God didn't want us to die fighting these forces" and promptly retreat

[Argitoth]

Originally posted by alexti:
Yeah, it's often very important to have low morale troops. Dozen Jotun giants attack poorely defended Marignon province. When they arrive there they discover a score of crossbowmen enemy reenforced by Ice Devil. Ice Devil casts buffs, crosbowmen fire. Jotun giants think "surely, our God didn't want us to die fighting these forces" and promptly retreat

Hooray Alexti! Using low morale to your advantage. I use enemies' high morale to my advantage. MORE KILLS FOR ME!!

High Morale = More Kills = More Experience = Hall of Fame = Heroic Ability = Super Combatants = "I Am Ultimo Invincible"

[ March 11, 2004, 03:18: Message edited by: Argitoth ]

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Arryn:
1. morale failure, or
2. stupidity on the part of the player.

I lose a lot of Dominions II battles, not because of morale failure or stupidity, but because of total and complete indifference to whether I actually "win" or "lose" the battle. Often times, in my mind, I'm willing to call it a victory if I manage to kill a single enemy unit. So what if I lost about 900 units to kill a single pikeman? It's not like I wasn't at unit max anyway, and if I don't downsize rapidly, I won't be able to summon something useful that I actually wanted. When your real objective is to get as many units killed as possible, victory or defeat is irrelevant!

[ March 11, 2004, 04:29: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

[Argitoth]

Hooray for Norfleet!!

[Norfleet]

It also helps that a complete indifference to casualties, or whether or not you even win the battle, allows you to scatter your guys across the map and attack everything in reach at once, so you can just pound your opponent's provinces in an endless wave every turn.

My number one weapon in grinding down the enemy is friendly fire. I don't have to kill enemy troops if they'll kill their own troops for me.

[Argitoth]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
My number one weapon in grinding down the enemy is friendly fire. I don't have to kill enemy troops if they'll kill their own troops for me.

Most people are smart enough to avoid that. Heheh, at least I am.

[ March 11, 2004, 04:50: Message edited by: Argitoth ]

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
a complete indifference to casualties

It might do you a world of good, someday, to broaden your view to include playing something other than Ermor.

[Argitoth]

Hey, norfleet is an Ermor player as much as I am an C'tis player??

Cooool.

Well Arryn, have you ever though of the virtures learned from never playing another nation? No, you haven't, because you don't think they exist.

[ March 11, 2004, 05:04: Message edited by: Argitoth ]

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Argitoth:
Well Arryn, have you ever though of the virtures learned from never playing another nation? No, you haven't, because you don't think they exist.

I won't attempt to try to explain to you the silliness of your question. Anyone who thinks tunnel-vision (if not outright ignorance) is a virtue ...

BTW, Argitoth, my comment which you jumped into was plainly directed at Norfleet, not you. Norfleet and I are friends, and we occasionally pull one another's legs just to see the other jump. We have never insulted or criticized one another. You, OTOH, are too immature to comprehend the not-so-fine line between friendly jesting and jokes in poor taste, as some of your postings earlier this week demonstrated. You presume entirely too much in dreaming that you have a clue what I do or not not think.

[Argitoth]

well i think there are things to learn from only playing one nation for long periods of time and there are tyhings learned from playing many nations.

[ March 11, 2004, 13:39: Message edited by: Argitoth ]