Winning strategys?

[Boron]

Vynd said:
In sum, madcastling with Ulm is probably a bad idea, but it could work with, say, Caelum, or Mictlan.

uhm with ulm the watchtower is imho a good idea :
you can build spies quickly or 2-3 mastersmith / turn early on .
this only works with a 300 gold castle .


i would say chosing the watchtower is with most nations a good choice because it costs 0 designpoints and you can build lots of .
the extragoldincome from admin 40 compared to admin 10 is lousy : +20% instead +5% for watchtower .
thats not so impressive because you soon build additional watchtowers and with a castle you would not have your second + third castle as quick which results in 2 / 3 mages soon / turn if they are cheap or 2 mages + e.g. one spy

so while not real strategies :
-watchtower is with most nations a good choice because of the above mentioned reasons
-clamhoarding is very profitable + lategame combined with wish very good .
-raiding + taxes to 200% in war in enemy territory is almost always good
-caelum: read the why no love for caelum thread , i agree there with stormbinder/cohen that caelum is probably overpowered a bit

gandalf put it very wise : you have to find the combination of nation/theme , pretender , research and scales what fits your playstyle best .

but my above mentioned 3 "ministragegies" can be used with almost every nation and help every nation that can use them.