MP: The Art of War - EA Vanilla Newbs Game 8/8 (Completed : Hinnom - Nightfall Wins)

[Nightfall]

Originally Posted by Mightypeon

Ouch, well I am out.

Mistakes made:
-A crucial stale
-Not paying attention to Dom until too late
-Bad gem management, did not correctly thug out my SCs
-The issue with not stating what kind of NAP I intend to have
-A bad call with my Pretender God. Should have kept him to spread Dominion
-On top of that, I subbed in at turn 29 with only Thaumaturgy 5 (and nothing else) being researched. Also, why would anyone ever choose that snake Pretender?

There seems to be a lot of unfortified temples in this game. I've taken out about 14 from Tien Chi and I think both Caelum and Neif have them too, although not as many. Thankfully I can use fire Melquarts, which are pretty terrible for anything else, to sacrifice 6 slaves a turn once I give them a jade knife.

I've noticed that now I've played in a couple of games after I design a pretender and am happy with it, the last thing I do is take a look to see if there is any way I can squeeze in just 1 more point of dominion without damaging the overall gameplan. It's important in so many small ways that I think a lot of people undervalue it.

Unfortunately I think formoria got stuck in a pretty small area at the start, combined with the cost of kings, that probably explains the lack of research.