MP Game - Casual Carnage (noob/int game) - running

[Boron]

Thufir said:

No exclusions - unless your username is Boron, in which case only T'ien Chi Barbarian Kings is permitted.

OK, bad joke, I'm sorry

If you don't mind, I'll stick to Abysia - in which case Caelum is yours

ok perfect

research is normal i hope

i asked with abysia because i planned a good strat for them in the Last days and wanted to try out

may i guess what your pretender is ?
was it influenced from the recent pretender discussion ?

try 1 :
scorpion king with E9F9
try 2 :
vq

i will take with caelum probably a virtue , a vq or a pod .

[Aku]

i think thufir is going to try the moloch with the no imps mod

[Boron]

Aku said:
i think thufir is going to try the moloch with the no imps mod

oh yeah he even writes it hm i am dumb hehe [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Envy.gif[/img]

[Galadin]

I am brand new, (n00b) to this game. Just got the title yesterday and spent 5 hours playing it straight. Anyway, if there are any slots open, I would like to play.

[Thufir]

Galadin said:
I am brand new, (n00b) to this game. Just got the title yesterday and spent 5 hours playing it straight. Anyway, if there are any slots open, I would like to play.

Great! But just tell us which nation you would like to play (as mentioned above Caelum, Mictlan, Pangaea and Abysia are already taken). We're closing in our 8 players pretty quickly, so I'm hoping we can all upload our pretenders and start the game by tomorrow. I'd suggest you use whatever time you have to try out a Pretender setup for the nation you're trying out.

In the opening in game it's mostly about taking the independent provinces (or indies), as quickly as possible, and that's one thing you can practice in SP that carries over perfectly well to MP. You should probably try a game using the same setup we're going to use in the game, as describe in my initial post, and most importantly use the same indy strength (8). IMO, you get the most bang for the buck by testing a given pretender setup for the first 10-15 turns.

[deccan]

How big is the download for the Karan map? I'm tempted to join this one too but I wonder if I'll have the time to download the map and think up a new pretender.

[Thufir]

deccan said:
How big is the download for the Karan map? I'm tempted to join this one too but I wonder if I'll have the time to download the map and think up a new pretender.

The map is a 3.4mb download, and I got it off Arryn's site:
http://www.dominions-2.org

Be sure to get Targa's corrections, as well, which are also on Arryn's site.

[YellowCactus]

I'm IN! Mitlan
-YellowCactus!

[Thufir]

YellowCactus said:
I'm IN! Mitlan
-YellowCactus!

Great!

So, we've got:

Caelum - Boron
Mictlan - YellowCactus
Pangaea - Aku
Abysia - Thufir
??? - Galadin

[Thufir]

Aku said:
i think thufir is going to try the moloch with the no imps mod

Could be sub-optimal, but I don't think you can get any more thematic than Abysia + Moloch