Richard vs Loops

[Loops]

Game 2:
Richard (Human)
Loops (Human)
Map (Gold Mountain)

Richard and I rematched today. He went with a mix of monks and a prophet for expansion, and on this map it worked much better than my two prophet approach. He managed to convert the neutral corner city on my side of the map while I fell back on drawing a short-term income advantage from the mines in the middle. Most of the game played out with him having a 5 to 3 city advantage while I operated with a unit advantage and offset some of his extra income from the mines. At one point he tagged my mining prophet with two monks and a paladin, but the following round I was able to decimate his fighting forces. By the time he had to leave, he was down to one turn's worth of production in units, and I was about to start converting a couple of his cities.

All in all a very fun game - strategically quite different from our previous matchup. Hope to see you again later!
- Loops

[Richard]

Yeah the unit mismatch really hurt me. I am still trying to figure out how you pulled that off .

I probably expanded too quickly, which left me trying to defend too much area and too few units. You defenitely used the middle of the map effectively and denied me the extra gold and the good defensive position. If only this game had supply rules .

Good game, you definetly have a good tactical understanding of the game.

[SargusBane]

Man I want to see the matches that you guy have played. There should be a observation mode for newbies like me to watch and learn how to play!