standard ulm in multiplayer....

[Norfleet]

Achaeolept would have you hurl yourself into a giant war AGAINST me. It's an usable strategy on maps which are largely devoid of any real terrain features like Orania or Oran, where everything is simply a gigantic, semi-homogenous land mass. That's not at all true with World, where waging a trans-oceanic war as a non-seafaring race can be sufficiently difficult as to be an exercise in futility.

And isn't being on *MY* side so much more attractive? I was more or less content to leave you in peace and let you have India. Worrying about how to fight me should be less of a concern to you than maintaining your own empire! The gigantic Ermorian army is more often than not a paper tiger: While huge, it's easily slaughtered en-masse and not easy to mass into a sizeable force, as they tend to sprout up all over the map and wind up everywhere. On the flip-side, hit-and-run skirmishing is not terribly helpful with Ermor for the same reason.

You should work on mastering you own early expansion before worrying about picking a fight with somebody.