Any new players fancy multiplayer?

Shovah32 · #1 September 16th, 2007, 02:48 PM

Like in SP its pretty easy to stop the majority of ai attacks simply by cranking your PD up high enough.
Thats generally not suggested in multiplayer

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Aezeal · #2 September 16th, 2007, 03:46 PM

125 pd WILL still be annoying for human players I'd imagine

Shovah32 · #3 September 16th, 2007, 04:37 PM

You are correct there, however 125 pd is extremely expensive and would be MUCH better spent elsewhere - particularly since human players can make far better use of flight/stealth/magic movement.

Endoperez · #4 September 16th, 2007, 05:27 PM

It is good, but not good enough. Leave out the last ten points, and you just saved (124+114/2 *10) about 1190 gp. Use that to buy four or five mages. You can see which one is better, I hope. The turn-around point is somewhere between 20 and 50, depending on the quality of troops. If you get infantry, longbowmen and crossbow-wielding medium infantry like LA Man, 40 gp is still good if you really need it. Even if you only get few weak units, it might be worth it to go up to 30 or so to downplay your own casualties, e.g. when you're deep in enemy lands, or need time to reanimate your soulless reinforcements. However, 10 is plenty in most provinces, and anything over 30 is very situational.

Aezeal · #5 September 16th, 2007, 06:17 PM

IS there a list where you can see what exactly you get.

I know PD is getting very expensive inhigher ranges, I only bought 125 in the game where I had half the map and that nature spell for double income.. jsut for ease

and building 5 mages takes 5 turns

PD is a instant fix

I learned something in my last game though .. before that one I usually put a relatively high PD in choke points (usually with a real army) but in my last game caelum casted that annoying call of the wind spell EVERY TURN on my dominions.. so now I know the benefits of a nice low PD blanket for my dominions (certainly when pangaea joined in with the call of the wild :S)

Endoperez · #6 September 16th, 2007, 07:07 PM

10 is enough for both Call of the Winds and Call of the Wilds.

The list of provincial defense starts from page 97 of the manual. The new nations (Lanka, Eriu, Tir Na Nog) aren't in there, and some nations are missing either underwater or land PD lineup IIRC.

llamabeast · #7 January 17th, 2008, 09:22 PM

Bump, resurrecting this thread again. See the first post.

Meglobob · #8 September 16th, 2007, 05:27 PM

Quote:

Aezeal said:
125 pd WILL still be annoying for human players I'd imagine

Possibly, but most will simply ignore it, until they can send in a couple of thugs to wipe it out.

In MP, a large number of the very best players only have a PD of 1 or so in there provinces. They consider it a complete waste of money in MP play.