A Tale of Fire and Blood

Norfleet · #1 January 29th, 2004, 09:46 PM

I've been through a great many games against the AI, and I can clearly recognize the symptoms: You've got a more or less secure border with fairly passive opposition that seems otherwise occupied...even in the case of one of my Jotunheim games, when Pangaea was absolutely massive and occupied all of Europe and West Asia, having an absolutely massive army and more than twice my provinces. Of course, eventually all hell broke loose when the shooting started, but by then, I was certainly ready for it.

One of the things AIs have traditionally done poorly in is concentration of force. Once your position is fairly stable and consolidated, in your case, the Americas, the AI won't pose a really credible threat unless he's absolutely supermassive.

As a nice sidenote, if you can get some fairly cheap death-4 mages, you can cut loose with the Ghost Riders and the AI won't realize what the hell is happening: You can sack province after province, then just roll in and take it over without a fight, by leading with a bombardment of Ghost Riders. Eventually, you'll accidentally arrive at the same time as an AI's force, and that might start the war in his eyes, but by this time, you're probably already on his front doorstep....and you haven't lost a single unit. Even if he knew what was happening, it would STILL be a good strategy, modelled after the classic German blitz: Bombers, tanks, infantry.

[ January 29, 2004, 19:47: Message edited by: Norfleet ]

undead dolphin hacker · #2 February 6th, 2004, 04:46 AM

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Originally posted by Cthulu13:
Awesome report, do you take requests? Could you do R'lyeh next?

Not to steal Tacitus's thunder, but if I were to do a R'lyeh AAR, would anyone mind?

General Tacticus · #3 February 6th, 2004, 10:20 AM

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Originally posted by undead dolphin hacker:

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Originally posted by Cthulu13:
Awesome report, do you take requests? Could you do R'lyeh next?

Not to steal Tacitus's thunder, but if I were to do a R'lyeh AAR, would anyone mind?

Not me

R'lyeh is not really my cup of tea, if you do an AAR on them I'll be able to choose someone else (after the curent one of course, which i really must finish)

SurvivalistMerc · #4 February 6th, 2004, 10:41 PM

I think we are all looking forward to your next post about your tale, General Tacticus.

Peter Ebbesen · #5 February 18th, 2004, 03:47 AM

Update!

General Tacticus · #6 February 18th, 2004, 10:09 AM

All right, I'll update this evening when I come back from work.

Seems like Norfleet was right - I'm in the mopping up stage. The AI doesn't seem to handle level 9 spells too well.

SurvivalistMerc · #7 February 18th, 2004, 07:05 PM

/cheer!