TucoTuco - MA game for new/newish players (upload)

Wrana · #1 July 16th, 2008, 05:03 PM

Well, and you have even not so low Dominion score (6?)... Either that's your natural Luck score to which I can only offer my condolescenses, or you got Dominion-pushed by not building temples in your border provinces... Or they were only there and got carried by Ashdod's rush...
My condolescenses in any case. I like Arcoscephales nation, though I didn't try them in MP yet.

Skirmisher · #2 July 16th, 2008, 05:07 PM

I was also having gold issues the whole game, so there was never really extra gold to build those temples. As soon as I had expanded to 8-9 provinces the de-expansion was started.

Wrana · #3 July 16th, 2008, 05:13 PM

WHAT WAS YOUR DOMINION THEN???

(And where were your elephantes?)

Skirmisher · #4 July 16th, 2008, 05:19 PM

Dominion was set to 6 or 7.

I realised to late that elephants were my primary field troops. The ones I did make didn't hold up Ashdod for long though.

Wrana · #5 July 16th, 2008, 05:48 PM

Pity. (By Dominion I meant scales as well, by the way)

Skirmisher · #6 July 16th, 2008, 05:50 PM

Scales= Luck 1 , thats it.

Fakeymcfake · #7 July 16th, 2008, 07:07 PM

Would elephants even be that effective against Ashdod? Considering that the size difference is far less than it would be otherwise that might have an effect on trample, but then I could be wrong. Even if trample still worked just as well, the HP and protection on Ashdod's mainline troops (or at least the ones that Cerlin is using) is just too high for elephants to be effective against them in my opinion.

Personally I would have gone heavy magic research working towards level 4 thaumatugry to get paralyze and then churn out astrologers by the cartload. Also, Acro's high resource unit costs pretty much scream productivity scales. But hindsight is 20/20 so who knows.

JimMorrison · #8 July 16th, 2008, 07:10 PM

Oh ouch.

Dom 6, Luck 1, and..... the most incredible bless that no one ever gave to Arcos?

I think if you were trying to use blessed Heart Brothers or whatever as the spearhead of your strategy, you might have been barking up the wrong tree there. Pretty sure Arcos prospers the best with a high scales strat, and can potentially do well with an awake SC (if you can do it cheaply enough) or a rainbow pretender.