MP Game - Pandemonium (noob/int game) - running

[Thufir]

deccan said:
Haven't seen frosted flake around, but damn he's playing arco against type. All expansion and no research. I'm particularly interested in seeing a well-played arco since in all my SP games, the AI plays arco very badly even if given a good position on the map.

Well, I haven't done much MP yet, but so far, in the opening game I always choose expansion over research, if I have that option. The fact that frosted has been able to expand at 1-2 provinces per turn since turn 1 is impressive to me. With the income from all those provinces he's taking, I expect he'll be able to make up on research soon enough.

I'm also wondering about his pretender design - sounds like it's capable of taking indies from turn 1. What kind of pretender can do that? And of course I must ask -what kind of weaknesses come with such a pretender?