land acquisition methods....

[tinkthank]

I'm not your better, only a newbie, but I'd like to add that I tend to play conservativly and my patterns ditto Gandalf P's fairly well, with one thing to add: I make liberal use of fortresses, especially if snaking. I hate starving, and I like having a larger army around, especially when recruiting mercs far from home. I scout as best as I can, always recruiting a scout if available in the provinces I take in turns 2-5), and try to take my next provinces (the ones not immediatley around my starting province, which I take first unless there is a good reason not to (like tons of knights)). I then go for "strategic building", that is: I try to beeline towards provinces with good units to recruit (in many cases with nations I play: Heavy Cavs) plus resources and build there.

[NTJedi]

Originally posted by CharonJr:
In my current AAR (vs. AIs) due to my fairly large army and passive AIs (likely due to my large army) I don't bother CharonJr

AI opponents do appear as tho they are behaving alot more passively. Ermor had 1,200 troops just sitting in his castle for 15 turns... eventually I acquired flames_from_the_sky which killed 493 of his units. Until patch 2.08 I've never seen ERMOR just sitting on his hands. In this game there was a time he was strong enough to easily kill me... now he can't do anything but dig his own grave. Even C'TIS only conquered 3 provinces after 40 turns. Independent Setting was 6.

Has anyone else noticed the AI opponents as being more peaceful ?? (hopefully its just a one-time experience)

[ March 05, 2004, 19:17: Message edited by: NTJedi ]

[Ed Kolis]

Originally posted by NTJedi:
Until patch 2.08 I've never seen ERMOR just sitting on his hands. In this game there was a time he was strong enough to easily kill me... now he can't do anything but dig his own grave.

Ah, but only after the grave is Ermor powerful!

[fahdiz]

Originally posted by NTJedi:
Has anyone else noticed the AI opponents as being more peaceful ?? (hopefully its just a one-time experience)

I still find them to be fairly aggressive, and in all my recent games they still tend to chew through indie provinces. But then again I play with indie strength at either 4 or 5, not 6.