Fixing PD?

[RonD]

"Any good Dominions MP player knows how mostly useless PD happens to be. Even a smallish army can roll through 20 PD quite easily. I mean, one sauromancer spamming undead can frequently kill 20 PD (without archers) all by himself! How much PD can a single High Seraph spamming false horrors plus 1 archer kill? And what about Ghost Riders? I recently had a fight where my 35 Machaka PD lost to one single lesser horror! Bah! That should never happen..."


I agree that PD could stand to be tweaked, but I don't buy this argument at all. I see PD as local-yokel conscripts. These guys *should* be totally freaked out (and destroyed) by any thing named "horror". And by ghost riders. If you want to stop high-end magical attacks, you should have to use reasonably high-end counters.


Now, the fact that ghost riders can wipe out a lot of high-end counters is a different matter. 2 castings of GR is about a 50/50 proposition to beat an equipped, Zen-spell-mod-enhanced ArchAngel *plus* mechanical militia. Without the mech militia the ArchAngel loses every time to 2GRs. But that is a matter for a different thread and has nothing to do with PD.

[sushiboat]

RonD said:
I see PD as local-yokel conscripts.

I wish it were so, but it's not. In an Amazon province, PD is ... not Amazon, but your national troops.

These guys *should* be totally freaked out (and destroyed) by any thing named "horror". And by ghost riders. If you want to stop high-end magical attacks, you should have to use reasonably high-end counters.

And/or put a fort in every province. Which means that almost everyone gets fast-and-cheap watch towers. Add in a flying SC or other flying army to retake provinces before the watch towers are breached. It's all connected. These recurring patterns are not by chance.

[The_Tauren13]

sushiboat said:
And/or put a fort in every province.

Exactly. Madcastling is a result of the uselessness of PD. If you could hold your provinces better with PD, you wouldnt see such blanket castling.

[Boron]

The_Tauren13 said:

Exactly. Madcastling is a result of the uselessness of PD. If you could hold your provinces better with PD, you wouldnt see such blanket castling.

Yeah . Then strategically placed Castles/Fortified cities would actually be good . With the extra Resources you could build much more national troops then also .

As it is atm you can do this only in sp though .
In MP the Order 3 , Sloth 3 , Death 3 , Misfortune 2 and Magic 0-3 Scale is much much to common .