Machaka in CB

[Chazar]

I also tend to agree with Ironhawk & Boron. However, I like to play Machaka already as it is. They are fine, (especially with the ConceptBalanceMod)!

Nevertheless I think it is foolish to try a bless strategy with Machaka in MP. I recall that in one of the lost elder threads (aka the posts that were written before the great forum update happened, which lost them forever in history) discussing machaka strategies, everyone agreed that a bless strategy would not work, simply because it costs so much and pays off so late. The advice was to go with good scales to build lots of Spider Knights (& some Archers, Chaff and Black Sorcerors every turn that I could afford one - of course). This worked pretty well for me in MP thus far. Without ever building more than five Black Hunter, of course.

So what scales can you drop for a bless? Order & Productivity are required to build your sacred troops and death costs money too. Without money and resource, the number of sacred troops becomes to small to pay off the disadvantges...but then again I cannot see any bless strategy really working with most other nations either.

[Endoperez]

Units seldom used, Mar 2004
Advice on Machaka appreciated, Apr 2004
Effective army for Machaka, Jun 2004
Gryphon Rider too weak? Jun 2004
Machaka and their spiders, Dec 2003


Does it happen to be any of these? I used the forum search engine. The first I found with
+machaka +"hunter spider" +blessing ,
more after leaving the blessing out of the search.

[halfzware]

So what scales can you drop for a bless? Order & Productivity are required to build your sacred troops and death costs money too. Without money and resource, the number of sacred troops becomes to small to pay off the disadvantges...but then again I cannot see any bless strategy really working with most other nations either.

Now I'm no expert, but... I think it really depends on the size of the game. The longer the game, the more punishing bad scales are.

[shovah]

cant see bless wroking... ever heard of f9 w9 vans? e9 n9 neifel jarls? f9 s/a9 flagelants?

[Chazar]

halfzware said:

Now I'm no expert, but... I think it really depends on the size of the game. The longer the game, the more punishing bad scales are.

Hmm, I am playing small maps and I would say the exact opposite, since a large map means a long game and plenty of sites, thus plenty of gems and thus plenty of summons and magic, making ordinary troops obsolete (but that is just a naive guess of mine). I'd say that having money/resources early on makes it possible to conquer your enemy mainly with common troops on a small map (mid-game).

However, research is usually also limited by money for buying and maintaining expensive mages, so accoding to the music currently in my headphones I sing along "Counterfeit dollars or english zloty, anything I can get. I want more!"