HINNOM EATS EVERYTHING

[sector24]

Great guide! Although, I do have 2 questions/comments.

1) You choose a blood fountain designed to cast LoC, but you later explain how it's unlikely that you even need it. Perhaps another pretender would be more useful, or do you use the blood fountain for something else?

2) Being first in every score graph makes you a prime target for getting ganged up on. Is Hinnom so powerful that you can ignore this or do you have to use Ermorian silver-tongued diplomacy, or do you have to kind of curb your expansion at some point to appear less powerful than you are?

[Renojustin]

From now on Baalz must write a secondary guide for every nation he has a guide for, entitled "How To Fight X."

[Baalz]

Oh, I make a bit of exaggeration for humor's sake. You're not actually going to be able to dominate everyone every time you play and win before the endgame. Hinnom's initial expansion is very, very good, but it's not really that much better than any of several nations who have very rapid early expansion. I think Hinnom will be a nation that people gang up on, just like LA Ermor and LA R'yleh - they're very strong early on but unstoppable if left alone. You'll need to play similarly.

[Taqwus]

...and you'll want to establish a solid advantage before your giants eat all your taxpayers.

[Tifone]

So as far as I understood, the main "danger" for this nation you people talked about, is from alliances of enemies - which will hopefully stop its GREAT early power in order to prevent their UNSTOPPABLE (quoting) late power?

wowz

[Lingchih]

This makes me wonder even more how in the heck Hinnom got stomped in the Kingmaker early game by Lanka.

[Sombre]

Well in fairness Lanka is also a powerhouse and any nation can be tricky to do well with if you are new to it/mp in general.

[AlgaeNymph]

Lingchih said:
This makes me wonder even more how in the heck Hinnom got stomped in the Kingmaker early game by Lanka.

Sombre said:
Well in fairness Lanka is also a powerhouse and any nation can be tricky to do well with if you are new to it/mp in general.

That, and being ganged up on.

Lingchih said:
Yes, it was a newb playing them I believe. He built all chariots and no giants.

My thought was "a score of armored tramplers, what could possibly go wrong?"

Lanka, mainly. I am, however, good at taking notes.

[Amhazair]

sector24 said:
1) You choose a blood fountain designed to cast LoC, but you later explain how it's unlikely that you even need it. Perhaps another pretender would be more useful, or do you use the blood fountain for something else?

Well, his first consideration when choosing a pretender was to have massive scales. The two cheapest chassis to do this are the oracle and the blood fountain. It's then a choice whether you want teleporting master enslave action, which your national mages can pull off by themselves too (with some effort) or bloody blood summoning.