Winning w/o a SC???

[Torlin HalfAxe]

From the way you describe them, HalfAxe, with words like "big" and "fat" and "oaf", it sounds like you consider them slow. But Jotun are actually very fast for infantry units. Long legs means long strides.

I was not describing their in-game fighting prowess at all, HotNife, I was merely describing giants in general. My apologies for the confusion.

In response to the first post. Dwarves use guerilla tactics? Maybe I'm thinking of different dwarves, or you're thinking of the normal fantasy elf. But aside from that, guerilla tactics are horrible. Whenever you retreat, even on purpose, your units end up scattered in all the neighboring provinces, or die when they retreat into an enemy one.

Guerilla tactics don't necessarily mean retreating, HotNife. If you want to "sum up" the tactic in a few sentences, which I find very difficult to do, I would say something like this:

Guerilla tactics are about conciously not meeting the enemy head on. You know you would lose the battle that way, so you choose not to fight in this fashion.

I'll go around your main armies, run through your territory while you're trying to get in mine, surround you with smaller Groups to cut off your supply, etc.

The point is not to meet your big, strong, oafy(did I just say "oafy"? yikes lol), giants face to face, where I would promptly get stomped. I'll prick your supplies and threaten your rear until you attempt to do something about it.

In addition, my copy of the game isn't even here yet, I'm just throwing out options and seeing if they would hold any weight before I start the game. Most of you have been very helpful, and I'm very excited at the possibilities for this title.

Thanks again for the insight!

[ June 23, 2004, 14:30: Message edited by: Torlin HalfAxe ]