playing ANYONE against everyone - Page 2

Baalz · #1 March 22nd, 2007, 04:03 PM

Hmmm, I'd have to go with MA Arcoscephale. With those parameters you're going to have to pick a good long term strategy so I'd go with good scales, strong research and expand early on the backs of elephants while castling up and cranking out the mystics. Strong communions & ability to heal afflictions on SC will carry you through the mid game, then strong astral magic (& good scales) will give you a good presence in the very long late game. You've got enough magic variety to handle anything, and great astral mages which will be brutal in the late game.

Gandalf Parker · #2 March 22nd, 2007, 04:09 PM

I have to admit that EA Arcos would tempt me alot. In a game with every nation, running for so long, the ability to seduce commanders from every other era/nation would be very tempting.

Meglobob · #3 March 22nd, 2007, 04:09 PM

Errm...thinking about it abit more, would'nt the LA nations have a huge advantage at the beginning with better weapons/armour and then in the end game the EA nations should come out on top with there more powerful mages/magic.

Gandalf Parker · #4 March 22nd, 2007, 04:12 PM

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Meglobob said:
Errm...thinking about it abit more, would'nt the LA nations have a huge advantage at the beginning with better weapons/armour and then in the end game the EA nations should come out on top with there more powerful mages/magic.

That did show up abit in the tests with AI's but Im willing to hear the expert veterans claims that AI's are at best a bare minimum comparison.

Human players might make all the difference. Can a great EA player make it far enough into the game to gain ground? Can a great LA player hold what he gains when the EA nations start gaining in their research?

Meglobob · #5 March 22nd, 2007, 04:18 PM

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Gandalf Parker said:

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Meglobob said:
Errm...thinking about it abit more, would'nt the LA nations have a huge advantage at the beginning with better weapons/armour and then in the end game the EA nations should come out on top with there more powerful mages/magic.

That did show up abit in the tests with AI's but Im willing to hear the expert veterans claims that AI's are at best a bare minimum comparison.

Human players might make all the difference. Can a great EA player make it far enough into the game to gain ground? Can a great LA player hold what he gains when the EA nations start gaining in their research?

This MP Gandalf, a player playing a LA nation could try to organise a early game massacre of all the EA nations. Can you imagine that, a huge alliance of LA nations slaughtering every EA nation they come across because they know such nations have a huge advantage later in the game.

EA Arco does'nt look so good now eh...as he could be public enemy no.1, would be good fun thou.

Or am I just

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Baalz · #6 March 22nd, 2007, 04:16 PM

Meglobob, that's not entirely true. Some of the best national troops are EA sacreds (Vanheim, Mictlan, Neifelheim), while some really good late game powers are LA (Ermor, Ulm).

quantum_mechani · #7 March 22nd, 2007, 04:21 PM

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Meglobob said:
Errm...thinking about it abit more, would'nt the LA nations have a huge advantage at the beginning with better weapons/armour and then in the end game the EA nations should come out on top with there more powerful mages/magic.

More like EA nations would have a big advantage through the whole game. EA Vanhiem, Helhiem, Lanka, Niefelhiem could beat up almost any living LA nation, at any stage of the game. The differnce between ages isn't all it's made out to be... there are some extremely powerful nations scattered through all the eras, but EA has the biggest concentration.

iceboy · #8 April 10th, 2007, 07:35 PM

So has anyone created this mod yet? Is this going to be an option in the next patch?

Gandalf Parker · #9 April 10th, 2007, 07:54 PM

heehee. no I suspect that this makes Johan cringe.

I wouldnt expect to see it in a patch.

But if you really want to play that way on your own machine then I will provide my copy of the mod. Altho it will probably have to be fixed with the next patch or whenver those new nations come out.
http://www.Dom3minions.com/RandomMaps/SingleAge.zip

Meglobob · #10 April 17th, 2007, 06:07 PM

Just to let everyone know who does not visit the mods subforum, Gandalf has finished the mod and its now available.

With Gandalfs mod you can play upto 77 nations, from every era or EA Ulm vs MA Ulm vs LA Ulm for example! How would EA Atlantis fare against LA R'yleh?

Its called, 'single age mod', available in the Dom 3 Scenarios, Maps and Mods subforum.

Lets all say thankyou Gandalf!