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Old November 16th, 2004, 02:30 AM

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Default Re: I dunno, guys...

If you have too much gold and too little resources for production, then you haven't spent enough gold building fortresses. Provinces don't get access to their full resource allocation unless there is a fortress in it. Plains, farmlands have the least resources but are the best for gold. Mountains have the most resources. Fortresses also suck resources from neigboring provinces, so a fortress in a mountain province surrounded by other mountain provinces has mega-resources.

I guess that you were playing Ulm which has decent xbowmen for Provincial Defense. However, in MP game, massed missile fire can be dealt with relatively easily and any flying enemies will carve up missile troops. Ulm is generally considered the weakest of the nations.

And no, all units need a leader type to lead them and can't move by themselves. They will rout if they are left on the battlefield without a leader. That's just the way the game works I guess.
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Old November 16th, 2004, 02:53 AM
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I haven't made it over the "hump" yet. By that I mean I haven't been able to put together a coherent empire before I got frustrated with things and restarted. Total time spent on the learning curve so far is about 4 hrs. The jury is still out, but so far I'm a little less than impressed enough to buy the full game. I think it will take a little more playing time before I have a clue what is really going on. Thanks Deccan for that info. I have gone thru the "walkthru" and read some of the write-ups but still have yet to put it all together.

Some of my complete unknowns (who, what, when, where, how, why):
- placement of troops for battle,
- "scripting" - I'm guessing this is a term referring to what you want your little warriors to do in battle vis-a-vis SE4 strategies
- what to apply my research to. I'm thinking this is a combination of discovering what my empire is good at, reading the spell lists and applying the research to get the best spells for my empire. I have done neither of these yet.
- and probably about a year's worth of other things that I don't even know about yet.

I guess I should start posting in the D2 forum, but I trust you guys here a little more for now. BTW, who are the gurus in the D2 forum? I'm thinking I could search for Posts by them.

I started lurking here almost a year before I registered in April '02 and I noticed that SJ was most knowledgeable and helpful to newbies so I searched for and read hundreds of his Posts. I never thanked you for that, SJ , but you really turned me on to SE4 unknowingly by answering other people's questions. Those where the same questions I had, of course.

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