Finally got it!..now a question on manual use? - Page 2

Zeldor · #1 October 20th, 2007, 01:09 AM

Some basic tips that can make first games much more enjoyable:

- take good scales [especially stay away from misfortune]
- take a nice nation that has a lot of possibilities [MA T'ien Ch'i would be a great idea]
- take more gold [about 200] and resources + supplies [around 150], you will have more castles and temples that way
- you can refrain from playing against water nations as it is hard to attack them and frustrating to defend
- if you want to defend a province with a castle you need to order your troops to patrol, not defend; also when you move reinforcements to the castle move them and change their orders to 'move and patrol' [it was very painful lesson]
- use '8' to get connections between provinces, that makes conquering much easier
- you may increase independents strength, it makes initial start slower, but AI has bigger problems with it

ttomm46 · #2 October 20th, 2007, 01:13 AM

thank you all..i'm playing the tutorial and it's even fun.

DigitalSin · #3 October 20th, 2007, 08:54 AM

I never read the manual, it's probably still collecting dust on a shelf. I jumped right in and started firing blind, and picked up a few things like that. Then I started paying attention to what things did

Wikd Thots · #4 October 21st, 2007, 11:49 AM

Use the manual to do the tutorial that is in it.
After that it can be just a reference book

Sombre · #5 October 20th, 2007, 01:12 AM

I started playing without looking at the manual or playing the tutorial. I honestly didn't get very confused. I later looked a couple of things up in the manual, but I got a lot of info simply by lurking on here and trying things out for myself. I have never used someone else's strategy and I never will, though I do take their tips. I almost never use the manual now and I don't trust it, because it is often wrong in my experience. Not just about subjective things like strategies, but about mechanics, stats and facts.

I do pretty much know the entire modding manual without having to look anything up any more though. I have read through the entire thing many times. It's located in the docs subfolder of the dom3 install.