what is your milleage

[apoger]

>Also what was so key about the extra reinvigoration? It seems nice, but I'm failling to see how it would be key to early expansion.


I took the earth magic in order to pump up the protection value of the dragon. Pro 24 is plenty good (the dragon form eats 2 levels of skill).

Place the dragon in the rear. Have it hold X2. Then attack rearmost.

Start attacking provinces from the very start. One extra province per turn is nice nice nice. The extra economy pays for mages to bring me up to speed later on.

In retrospect I should have used earth-9 in order to boost the lava warriors. I did that in a game on Tuesday and it worked great. The extra protection and reinvig is just what they need.

[Pocus]

Originally posted by DominionsFAN:
Ok may I ask that what is the whole point in this?
I mean you are grabbing 20 provinces, but you will loose them hellish fast, since you cannot protect them.

I myself prefer to get less territories and focusing to make an elite army meanwhile.
Well depends..I love to play with Indy str 9. [/QB]

I dont quite understand your issue? By turn 20, I had 2 strong armies running, so I would have no problems defending against incoming threat. This is what I have done anyway, as Tien Chi started to strike at my holdings begining at turn 15. They got repulsed in a matter of turn.

If your profile is to make slow advance, turtle, then resume, then it wont work that well in multiplay, or even in solo when you face a strong AI (which has gobbled another one). Frederick the Great said that he which want to defend everything defend nothing. So you'd better have a mobile response force, and dont worry in putting some forces in each of your province.

edit : typo

[ November 01, 2003, 06:20: Message edited by: Pocus ]

[DominionsFan]

Oh yes I know Pocus, but can you expand fast, when the indy str is on 9? I cannot make it.

[Pocus]

no I wont play with indep 9 as of now, for 2 reasons :

I have only 40 turns for the demo, I dont want to fight indeps all the time.

indep 9, with the reduction of gold income, wont be seen much in MP. And when I play solo, this is to test a strategy that can be valid in MP.

[DominionsFan]

Oh I got it. Yup 9 indy str for MP sounds a little too much, however if you don't like to expand fast, it can be fun.
[I prefer to play SP anyways.]

[MStavros]

Originally posted by apoger:
>I feel at Last somehow at ease with Abysia now, and get something like 1100 gold & 18 provinces at turn 20 (Eye map, indep at 4, 6 impossible AI, all other settings unchanged).

I ran a game to see how well I'd do using the same settings.

I used a red dragon (fire 2, earth 8), order3, prod 3, heat 3, death 3, luck 1, drain 3.

Totally ordrinary game, some ups, some downs. I lost an important army by surprise when Arco showed up with an unexpected army that had 8 elephants, 20 HC, and about 100 assorted junk.

On turn 20: 36 provinces, income 1602.

If I had a bit of luck or had played a shard smarter I probably could have gotten another 20% out of things.

Indeed nice. I had almost the same results.

I met with an AI army in that game, and it had more than 300 units. [Man - Impossible.] As usual, mostly cheap units, but still that was an impressive army.

[PDF]

Originally posted by DominionsFAN:
Oh I got it. Yup 9 indy str for MP sounds a little too much, however if you don't like to expand fast, it can be fun.
[I prefer to play SP anyways.]

Well, I like strong indeps, so in Dom2 I play Indie 8-9 plus Rich world