MP Game - European War 2

[Cainehill]

Double blessing can work - in fact, I think it's fairly viable with Jotuns. Niefelheim though - can't remember if they still get the Jotun Woodsmen, and the Niefel giants are pretty expensive to build a strategy around (especially as they're capitol only, as are the Woodsmen). When you go so heavy on a bless strategy, it doesn't make sense to build all that many non-blessed troops....

And if your troops were routing frequently, it doesn't sound like you centered it around the woodsmen / Niefels, since once blessed they wouldn't have routed. (You _were_ blessing them, right? )

Also, Earth Momma doesn't go particularly well with Jotunheim, imo - her fatigue climbs _way_ too fast, since she isn't comfortable in the cold. Personally, I think Nature/Water works better with Jotunheim; possibly Nature/Fire, or Nature/Air (protection from all those nasty crossbows).

Better luck to you in the future.

[archaeolept]

I think double-bless troops is a typical newbie strategy.

yes yes no doubt

/me whistles innocently

;p

[Turms]

archaeolept said:

yes yes no doubt

/me whistles innocently

;p

Hello archaeolept. I saw your dragon in action, he was impressive.

But I was really amazed when I tried to count how much a fire 9 astral 9 dragon costs. Urgh.
I would never have guts to pay so much for the pretender.

Care to share your scales?

Turms

I put most of my points on scales, but that did not prevent me from getting stuck in Italy...

[archaeolept]

yah, you need truly atrocious scales for something like that. really, w/ zen's scale mod included such ultradragons will cease to be viable, i think. but i'm a fan of pushing bless strats when the opportunity arises. hell, when i encountered thufir's super cyclops (A4E8N3), 140 hp 30 prot mistform mirror image 14 regen, i only lost 110 gold in troops taking him down...

the scales are so bad i was trying to avoid spreading dominion, until i started to risk dominion death - i think it was around turn 20 i was down to a combined total of 7 pts of existing dominion in the world... :O

edit: hmm, it might actually have been only 5 pts - i seem to remember having dom3 in my cap, and domions of 1 in two territories.

[Zooko]

What use is the Astral magic to the dragon? I know you can cast some useful things like Luck with Astral 1. What else does he do with it?

[Jurri]

Luck, body ethereal, astral shield, astral weapon, cool evocations and even cooler thaumaturgies!

[archaeolept]

what can't you do is the better question

its very expensive, but adding luck and ethereal basically makes it extremely unlikely he'll pick up any afflictions wiping out indies. astral weapon means he's a potent SC killer even into the late game. and S9 makes him an astral king capable of natively casting wish, or whatever other high level ritual one might want. or battlefield support magic.

[Truper]

Ok, All you European War 2 players - Arch says there's a new turn, though for some reason he's having trouble posting.

[archaeolept]

testing testing

edit: hmm, as soon as truper did his post i was then able to post again

[archaeolept]

new turn

(still have these weird posting problems)