VampireBat - LA game for new players- started

Zenzei · #1 April 14th, 2008, 07:27 PM

Well well, this game has certainly taken some new twists it seems. Saying I'm excited to see how things play out would be an understatement.

James243 · #2 April 14th, 2008, 08:10 PM

Hear hear, zenzei

Aezeal · #3 April 14th, 2008, 08:15 PM

I hope the last 2 turns will be in within the hour

after that i'm going to sleep

James243 · #4 April 15th, 2008, 02:15 PM

Karlem, I've no intention of attacking you! I'm sure you'd be trembling if I did of course...

Karlem · #5 April 15th, 2008, 04:22 PM

Good to know James, good to know

Zenzei · #6 April 15th, 2008, 04:25 PM

Heh, looks like the list of people who don't want to Karlem to win this game is growing thin, very thin.

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Some things I've learned from this game:
-I'll never again take growth scale because I'm blood nation.
-I'll never again take luck scale as any nation (Mictlan being the possible exception).
-I'll never again take Heat3/Cold3 unless my important troops have at least fire/cold resistance 50.
-Beware the NAP trap! I think Patala was the victim of this in this particular game.
-In most cases manual site searching isn't beneficial thing to do. Even in late age where site freq is lower.

Aezeal · #7 April 15th, 2008, 04:42 PM

I know I am

lol that was a reply to James about the trembling

Karlem · #8 April 15th, 2008, 05:43 PM

Zenzei, about the luck thing. I completely disagree. Luck makes turmoil a possitive scale

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O3L3 is wonderfull too, lots of markets and forts for free. Test it.

H3/C3, well, I allways take H3/C3 if nation has even 1 degree of H or C in its description, however only if the encumbrance of my main units is not high to avoid fatigue.

I like the NAP trap sentence. Quite true.

Manual site searching is usefull in the early game or to begin a new path, otherwise if you have the gems cast remote searchs.

Zenzei · #9 April 15th, 2008, 06:12 PM

Yes, turmoil & luck have an obvious synergy but every time I take the combination it just doesn't seem to work out so well. I think reliableness of order/misfortune is better than randomness of turmoil/luck.
This inspired new words of wisdom:
-Beware the luck scale trap! It tempts you with national heroes and cool events but in the end order prevails.

Order and luck together certainly are nice but you're going to have hard time getting it without going for scales god. I like active pretenders.