How to solve castling effect?

[Stormbinder]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

VQs are fairly easily swatted if you expect them to show up, and even if they're immortal, every beating dished out yields you a castle that an SC alone is hard-pressed to take back. The strategy is, in essence, brittle: It's hard to break, but when it does, it shatters.

Bull****. You can kill VQ again and again and again, but it will be back immideatly just as strong (or stronger) as before, as long it is her dominion. (and with temples in every province it is always her dominion).

Even if you win an offensive battle against her, you are risking of losing large part of your army in each successeful battle against her, or being totally annihilated. The max benefits that you can get from wining against her - is one crappy castle. Losing one castle is nothing when you have castles in every province.

To compare VQ to SC banelord is just plain stupid.


I agree with Norfleet in one thing though - as I said in my Last post this strategy can probably be pulled off with some other pretenders. But having immortal uber-VQ pretender clearly makes "mad castling" much more effective.


AllFather, Natataraje, etc are strong SCs (and btw unlike VQ they are unique). But they are not immortal, so once they die even once they are crippled due to losing magic pathes that made them efficient. They also risk taking battle injuries in each and every battle while they would be trying to defend "castled" dominion. VQ risk nothing.


Norfleet is just trying to turn facts upside down in his usual manner. Playing "mad castling" with Natataraje for example is brittle , since once your pretender dead or crippled your resistanse is significantly weakened. Playing it with VQ is an opposite of that.

[ May 26, 2004, 20:36: Message edited by: Stormbinder ]