Re: Opening Gambit
I play SP Vanilla, usually with an imprisoned pretender, especially with a large map. I usually bump the taxes up to 200% for the first turn, then reduce to 100%, while patrolling with the commander. Scout scouts. Hire the best mage possible on the first turn then prophetize. For MA Man I go with the mother; the crone tends to go old age too early. Turn two I hire another combat mage. Turn three the party sorties for the easiest province and I hire another mage to start researching. Turn four I hire another scout and return party to capital if I took a lot of casualties, otherwise I head for another weak province. Then I alternate scout and research mage. I try to maximise research and grab surrounding provinces as quick as possible. I hire scouts from those indy provinces as soon as possible so that the cap can do the research mage thing. I also will hurry to generate a search mage, a ritual spell mage and a construction mage.
I have not taken the jump to playing MP; I understand that my opening will leave me pretty vulnerable to rush attacks :-)
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