I ALWAYS loose.... I need advice and have MANY questions heh!

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Lach:
OOOOOOH so the higher the dominion the more it shifts to the default I picked at the begining? I thought that was just for the home province.....The income boost... so I take it it is 10% per dominion strength, or?

You only get an income boost from your dominion if you have picked positive order scale. It's a 7% bonus per level of the scale, and only applies to those provinces whre you have enough dominion to enforce the scale.

[Molog]

You could try taking ashen empire dominion for Ermor against weak AI opponents and then just playing a game to test things out.

[Lach]

Looks like somebody ripped you off there.

Got it for $20.00 heh, so nah .

In any given province, the presence of a fortress will give you all of the resources that the province is capable of producing. If you don't have a castle, then the available resources in a province are halved. The other source of resources is the fact that a castle pulls its administration percentage of resources from neighbouring friendly provinces that do not have a castle.

So any bordering provence to one with a castle will also get its full resource value?


Thank you for the other info

[Demosthenes]

Originally posted by Lach:

So any bordering provence to one with a castle will also get its full resource value?

This is where the Admin value of a Fort comes into play. The admin is what amount of resource draw that fort has from its surrounding provinces.

Those provinces get drained of resources.

[ July 13, 2004, 02:33: Message edited by: Demosthenes ]

[SelfishGene]

Actually this brings up the question i had regarding unholy summoning; Ghouls vs. Longdead vs. Souless.

Soulless are only raised with weapons and armor after a battle (a nice touch). Otherwise they come back unarmed. And unskilled - the lowest in the game. They're virtually worthless in combat without weapons. But they do have 15 hp.

Longdead are skilled and their armaments are varied. Many have 11+ armor and 11 attacks skills. But most have only 5 hp - banish bait. Longdead tend to die just about as badly as Soulless.

Now i used to have a deep aVersion to Ghouls because of the way they ate pop. But on further reflection (and experience), they have the advantage of Paralyzing Poison, which if it connects and sticks, is just plain better than some feeble zombie limp-wristed punch. And of course you can use summoning Ghouls to burninate one of those random provinces you oftentimes take over.

Ghoul / Soulless / Longdead?
(I have this idea of plaing base Ermor with 3 Growth and pumping out Ghouls.)

Ghouls = Take and Hold usage (They are not mindless, if you notice, so they have a full repair/destroy castle damage)

Soulless = Get more per summon if you have corpses. As good as Longdead, but more. If you are summoning Longdead, you might as well summon Soulless while you have corpses unless you plan on Raven Feasting. IMO the AI should notice when there are no corpses and switch their Reanimation to longdead (if they can) when there are no more Corpses.

Longdead = No population Reanimation. Fodder for free!

[Lach]

Originally posted by Demosthenes:

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Originally posted by Lach:

So any bordering provence to one with a castle will also get its full resource value?

This is where the Admin value of a Fort comes into play. The admin is what amount of resource draw that fort has from its surrounding provinces.

Those provinces get drained of resources.

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The province it is built in gets full resources, neighboring provinces get the administration %?


Okay... the AI cheats and I am certain of it. I managed to get a REALLY strong border... covered a good size of territory and only 4 entrances, one of which is hard to get to!

All 4 of them have an enormeous number of troops.... on one of them in particular I was stacking every extra troop I could in preperation of breaking out and capturing an area past that bottleneck up to the next bottleneck(then fortify that area ETC). Eventually I broke out and attacked

Within two turns of doing this the AI on the other side of me, who could not possibly see that are, who had no armies on that side of the world and who had no global spells to reveal the area, massed 450 units on my other side..... how they even GOT 450 units, which had to of been most of their army there that quickly is beyond me, let alone how they knew.... grrr heh.


Chalk up another massive slaughter heh.

[ July 13, 2004, 04:18: Message edited by: Lach ]