I dunno, guys...

[deccan]

Renegade 13 said:
Now you guys have got me curious, and I'm downloading the demo for Dom2.

I remember when I first played Dom2 for the very first time (SP of course) in December Last year. I picked Tien Chi (cos it's China and I'm Chinese), picked a sage as a pretender (cos it would be sort of thematic).

On the very first turn, I recruited a Prince General, and spent the next few turns recruiting a sizable army of archers and footmen, going for the fairly starndard pike-and-bow setup, and equipping my Prince General with a good assortment of early equipment. I didn't attack my first independent province until well past turn 10, and when I did, because of the big size of my army, I won handily and felt quite pleased with myself.

Over the next several turns, I conquered more independent provinces easily and spent a lot of gold building up provincial defense (PD). My empire consisted of like four or five provinces and PD built up to at least level 20 in each and I was quite happy.

Then I met AI Marignon after turn 20 or so, and I was shocked that he had about a dozen provinces. He came after me with multiple armies that tore through my PD like they were tissue paper, and attacked my capital with his own Pretender, a fire 9 Phoenix, and his fire darts dropped my own footmen and archers like flies while my puny human sage cowered in fear. His crossbowmen took down my footmen in droves while my archers seemed to be able to barely scratch his swordsmen and Marignon took my capital at about turn 25 or so.

After that, I was thinking that this game sucked and didn't touch it for another four or five months.