ea pangaea vs tienchi

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by Calahan

And a lot of players find Pangaea to be one of the more interesting nations due to all the different strategies available. You can go for Maenad hordes, Minotaur tramplers, dual blessed sacreds, Pan Thugs, heavy stealthy, annoyance with Satyr Sneaks/Revelers and Venom Charm carrying Harpy's, undead hordes via Carrions. Plus several others I've probably missed out from this quick hit list.

And a lot find them boooooring. Me included.

Monotony of the spell casters - ie, few choices, little variability. The national paths give you a rocky road on summoning. Monotony of heros. And without bloodstones, whats your endgame: almost purely defined by your pretender, ie, less interesting than many other nations.

As for the plethora of strategies: who cares how many bad strategies a nation has? Stealth <<< Military might. Magic carpets for harpies? Are you kidding? building a strategy around air, based on a pretender and/or getting obscuro?

Pangeae usually devolves into micromanagement hell: ferrying massive amounts of maenids to their deaths. And wondering if you'll be able to build any units next turn, due to the huge upkeep on your pans.

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As for the OP's comment about thugs: Man you are overspending on your thugs WAY too much.

you want more units of lower quality - which is the general pan approach to everything.

definitely do not waste gems on armor. your target should be 5-15 gems per thug.

Items I would consider: Vinesheilds, snakebladder, firebrand, snake rings....

So for example: V = vineshields, F = firebrands

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Cast the usual summon earthpower, invulnerability, attack. Or alternately give them all snakebladders, cast iron, and have some way of dealing with poison.

[Jarkko]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

As for the plethora of strategies: who cares how many bad strategies a nation has? Stealth <<< Military might. Magic carpets for harpies? Are you kidding? building a strategy around air, based on a pretender and/or getting obscuro?

Pangaea has access to air magic (Faerie queens, the Harpy Queen) other than pretender too, although if you want to have magic carpets fast, you'll want air on your pretender. It is not a mass strategy, but crafting even four carpets will give you two-four kick *** stealthy flying raiding forces (7 revellers can take any below 10 PD (and probably without any losses too), while 14 is enough to take a PD 20). The problem of the sneaking armies is the low mobility, so adding a few with high mobility takes the stealth strategy to all new levels; your opponent knows the sneaking centaurs will hit neighbouring provinces or disappear from sight, but where will those flying sneakers go?

Claiming stealth is much less useful than pure military power is rather short-sighted: When your opponent lose most of their provinces on turn one of a war, what will their big kick-*** army do? Take back one province at a time, or split up the army? If you split up, the evil sneakers can form up and fight as a big army, if you stick to one army only, you'll run out of provinces pretty fast. If you go with the stealth strategy, you don't go hitting your head against their sledgehammer, but you should focus on kicking them where it hurts most.

If you dont build your pretender to be part of your strategy as Pangaea, then you will indeed suck. You can't do all the things you could with Pangaea, you have to choose which way you want to go, and go for that all the way. Yes, it may be boring for people who like to switch strategies mid-game, as that just doesn't work with Pangaea; you have to choose what you intend to do *before* the game.

[chrispedersen]

Faerie queens are conjuration 8. Pan is usually low on the research charts. and access that late in the game counts as no access - especially as you have a lot of other paths crying for earlier exploitation. Enchantment, home of most of the Pan national spells, for example.

I don't agree that 7 revellers will beat any pd.
But even if that were true, the cost to station a decent garrison is *way* less than your cost to build a decent raider.

And, even if it *were* true, 1 arrow of seeking will generally kill said harpy, costing you your carpet. Send 2 if you want to be sure. Most nations will have *far* better access to air than pan will, again since you will be relying on your pretender to find it.

You're far better off just building forts on the border - preferably in forest.