Newbie Game EA (Running)

[FAJ]

I am so used to playing with Abysia primarily, I am very surprised at how weak Yomi's troops are. And not a single blessable unit other than commander?

are nations with weak troops early on at a big disadvantage?

[Sheap]

Some nations have weaker troops than others and since dom3 is new the balance is still evolving. It's likely there will be a comprehensive balance mod produced at some point similar to what there was for dom2. There are a lot of components that go into making troops good - not only quality but also price/performance ratio, resource cost, tactical shortcomings (you might have really good infantry but bad archers and cavalry, or whatever). Nations shouldn't all have the same strength early troops, nations with good troops often are balanced by bad priests, overpriced mages, or whatever. I guess I think dom3 is still too new to really decide which nations are strong and which are weak.

[FrankTrollman]

Actually, I'm Tien Chi - not exactly considered a strong early military powerhouse.

Our strategy of falling back to the castle and researching has proved pretty successful - we just achieved Evocation 2 and with it have crushed Helheim's advance forces. We aren't naive enough to believe that they have run out of Helhirdings - but they did run through 20 of them and 10 Huskarls - that's not an insignificant army to lose to a man agains the awesome might of... Sulphur Haze.

Like the Willow in the Storm, Tien Chi bent but did not break. Our lands will be free of Helheim aggression, his god is now dangerously exposed against an army that has proven in the field that it can trade Lion Clan tribesmen 2:1 against the best armies Helheim can produce. That's not sustainable for them and the time has now come for the sun to again rise on the Empire of Tien Chi!

The Great Catsby has spoken.

[KissBlade]

FAJ said:
I am so used to playing with Abysia primarily, I am very surprised at how weak Yomi's troops are. And not a single blessable unit other than commander?

are nations with weak troops early on at a big disadvantage?

Yomi's troops may be weak but they have strength in having one of the most easily massable archers in the game. Your armies should literally be composed of pure bakemono archers +bandit archers led by skeleton spamming hannayas or ones casting flaming arrows.

PS. Though to answer your questions, nations with weak troops early on is at a big disadvantage.

[Kydorias]

I've been offered to take over C'tis and I gladly take up the challenge!

I havent' checked out their situation yet though, so we'll see how it goes

[Sheap]

Excellent. I already played the current turn but you should have plenty of time to submit your own orders since it probably won't be hosted for several hours or maybe until tomorrow.

Anyway, I will send you a PM telling you what I have been up to.

[RamsHead]

So is this turn supposed to be patched or not?

[Kydorias]

Ok, C'Tis is now on the move again. Heh, one of the Commanders (the first-turn "General" I assume) has "Heroic Stupidity". I've never seen that heroic ability before. Glad that it was a combat General that got it, not a mage.

By the way, I'm patched, not sure if the server or other players are or not.

[Sheap]

The server isn't patched yet. Recommend not patching until the server upgrades although apparently no one has had problems yet?

Yeah heroic stupidity is hilarious. It's almost as good as battle bellow (which I once had on a commander who had the "mute" affliction... so he could yell, but not say anything intelligible )