Faerun - started

[Huzurdaddi]

The Panther said:
My dragon (as Machaka) in the Mad-Orania game took level 9 indies all by himself from Turns 2-7. He lost an eye on Turn 2 and lost the second eye on Turn 7 after taking 6 level 9 provinces. Being blinded, he then retired to help with research. I was really pissed that he didn't get tamer afflictions, like a chest wound or battle fright. Admittedly, I did not attack anything dangerous (meaning heavy cavs or knights).

That's pretty much how it goes for dragons. They last between 4-12 battles or so. But in the end they get a couple of afflictions that doom them. The chest wound, btw, is a death sentence for a dragon as now a battle with just HI can become death if they do not route quickly. In the faerun game ( which had no hoarding thank god! ) my dragon lasted only 6 battles which irked the crud out of me, since it is on the lower part of the range.

Then, starting on turn 4, my prophet army began to take provinces easily. But that was helped by the fact that the each player started with a bunch of pre-built sites plus the income from 5 inital provinces, thus kick-starting my non-dragon battles immensely.

It highly nation dependent. Certianly nations with good sacred troops can start early if they have a good bless. Turn 4 is difficult for many nations, I find turn 6 to be the sweet spot for many nations.

I must admit I am wondering how Huzurdaddi can hope for the game to be resolved quickly without a victory condition. The only way I know how to do this is to be eliminated from the game

Well I was going to try the marignon strategy that I talked about in the other thread but now I am going for the elimination strategy! It requires *far* less micromanagement!

Anyway the marignon strategy (tm) is far less powerful when hoarding is allowed. But Soapy and I are sure that this game will go to the nation who is most able to hide in the background and hoard like nuts.

But I'm a belligerent *** so I'm not going to do that It will be my undoing.

BTW: Ulm is *s00pa* in this mod. Wowzie. As is Atlantis.