Name that nation!

[Alexander Seil]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
If you are the "attack with tanks" type of commander you might take Ulm

If you are the "leave me alone while I research spells to wipe you out" type the take Arcos

Or, "leave me alone while I build enough hoplites to attack with them"

[PrinzMegaherz]

If you want to play Pangaea take Carrion Woods.
Okay, it is really bad compared to Ashen empire, but you always have surprise on your side (wtfomg he is CW) and your enemies will focus on ermor first so you get time to get some carrion lords for heavy unit summoning

[jaif]

I checked out new age pangaea like you suggested. They seem kinda borked. Well, the upgraded armor on the minos and centaurs is nice, but no harpies? The dryad hoplites don't seem worth it, and thematically why not make dryads scouts/spies and make the basic minos sacred? That way your naked minos are sacred and the others are armored.

Also, is it my imagination that the Pan is the same guy, same 350 price tag, but no free maeneds?

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by PrinzMegaherz:
If you want to play Pangaea take Carrion Woods.
Okay, it is really bad compared to Ashen empire, but you always have surprise on your side (wtfomg he is CW) and your enemies will focus on ermor first so you get time to get some carrion lords for heavy unit summoning

He is playing single-player as stated in the first post, so this advice is useless.

Additionally, jaif did not want hordes of undead, so I really doubt Carrion Woods is to his taste

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen:
Additionally, jaif did not want hordes of undead, so I really doubt Carrion Woods is to his taste

I dont know about that. Im into all into role playing and "feels right" (my biggest problem is that I pass up on some great pretenders because they are female). I also dislike the feel of playing undead swarms of sword-fodder but I can get into carrion woods. Almost the same automatic-armys/swarming feel but having units of living vines feels better somehow.

[st.patrik]

Originally posted by jaif:
I checked out new age pangaea like you suggested. They seem kinda borked. Well, the upgraded armor on the minos and centaurs is nice, but no harpies? The dryad hoplites don't seem worth it, and thematically why not make dryads scouts/spies and make the basic minos sacred? That way your naked minos are sacred and the others are armored.

Also, is it my imagination that the Pan is the same guy, same 350 price tag, but no free maeneds?

Yeah you definitely have less troops to play with than standard Pangaea. On the other hand, the troops you do have are pretty good - the Grove Guards are great, for example.

The dryad hoplites aren't worth it - you're right - which is a shame.

The Pan is the same as standard Pangaea, except that he doesn't summon Maeneds, and has one less Earth. So he's not as good, but that's what you pay for better satyrs, better minotaurs, and more heavily armoured cataphracts - for the same cost as regular Pangaea.

The reason I suggested New Era Pangaea is because they have tough troops, so you can play kinda like Ulm, depending on your troops to do most of the work, and at the same time they have more versatile magic than Ulm (having a 3 in nature and a random pick [also 1 in earth]), so you can more easily get some fun spells to throw in the mix later in the game

However, if it's not to your taste, that's cool.

(BTW I do agree that the theme could use tweaking)

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:

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Originally posted by Peter Ebbesen:
Additionally, jaif did not want hordes of undead, so I really doubt Carrion Woods is to his taste

I dont know about that. Im into all into role playing and "feels right" (my biggest problem is that I pass up on some great pretenders because they are female). I also dislike the feel of playing undead swarms of sword-fodder but I can get into carrion woods. Almost the same automatic-armys/swarming feel but having units of living vines feels better somehow.

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Interesting. To me Carrion Woods signify something as obscene as Undead Ermor, a perVersion of the natural order, the transformation of what was once sacred life into unlife, be it as Undead or Carrion creatures.