good races for/against newbies.

[Hiro_Antagonist]

magnate said:
Anyway, I wonder what the OP made of all this - did you stick with Neifelheim in the end, and if so with what pretender setup?

Well, I haven't decided yet. The game doesn't actually start for another month or so (yeah, that's a while,) but there's a big prize on the line so I'm 'studying' hard-core.

From my dealings against the AI, I still seem to be doing better with Jotun/Neifel than any other race, but I think they might expect that from me since I've played them in the past. So I might just pick another arce to maintain anonyminity as a player (it's an anonymous game) so that I can avoid peoples' attention. Thankfully, I still have a while to consider your guys' feedback and experiment/practice on my own.

As I posted in another thread, I tend to have problems against 5 Difficult AI's on Desert Eye after about turn 20-25 or so. (Before that, I'm usually at or very close to top player according to stats graphs.) Does that speak poorly of my skill?

-Hiro_Antagonist