Race Designs & Strategies

[Vorkosigan]

I can imagine that by midgame Ermor is darn hard to beat. Surviving to then is the trick. I found that versus 12 impossible AI opponents, I cannot wait for the freespawns. Archbishops summoning horsemen seem to work really well. Especially once you have a dozen Archbishops or more. Without those horsemen I just wouldn't have enough troops to expand with my usual berserker enthusiasm.

Do you limit your expansion and focus on research? I admit that's an approach I have ignored to date.

[Vorkosigan]

Hey Edi brings up an interesting point: for multiplayer, what tends to be the most popular mods? I haven't played with mods so far, but it sounds like there are some pretty interesting ones. I like the sound of the mod that gives reinvigoration to the pretenders.

[Edi]

Vorkosigan said:
Hey Edi brings up an interesting point: for multiplayer, what tends to be the most popular mods? I haven't played with mods so far, but it sounds like there are some pretty interesting ones. I like the sound of the mod that gives reinvigoration to the pretenders.

I don't know about other people's preferences, but I love Zen's Conceptual Balance mods. Especially the pretender mod makes a lot of previously unattractive pretenders viable. The fact that the CB mods are all modular makes them perfect, one can pick and choose what one wants.

Edi

[Boron]

Vorkosigan said:
Do you limit your expansion and focus on research? I admit that's an approach I have ignored to date.

Exactly i chose research over expansion .

In SP even impossible AIs have some trouble with your dominion + starving .
In SP even unequipped wraithlords beat huge amounts of AI troops + this is costless as long as fighting in own dominion .

The longdead horsemen are too fragile to be really good in MP imo . 1 archbishop costs even more then 1 duskelder though . Basically you could expand with your mages just spamming skeletons + a few undeads ( 30-50 ) .
This way you don't need your arch bishops .
I summon about 5 alcolytes during an ermor game for temple building and zero arch bishops .
I try to search my provinces as quick as possible to maximize gemincome and start clamhoarding as soon as possible too .

[Graeme Dice]

Vorkosigan said:
I can imagine that by midgame Ermor is darn hard to beat.

I would say that it's the other way around. Their undead troops evaporate against serious resistance, and anybody who's in the midgame should be able to put up fairly serious resistance.