HINNOM EATS EVERYTHING

[chrispedersen]

Sauromatia, Lanka, and Vanheim I'd say are the three nations to look out for, as hinnom.

[Evilhomer]

I ended up playing Hinnom recently and it seems even Lanka has trouble dealing with Hinnom. Lanka attacked me around turn 15 but managed to accomplish almost nothing doing so. Perhaps if the player playing lanka had opted for a heavier bless the fight would have been more even, but the fight still seems in favour of Hinnom.

Only nation I see taking out Hinnom in an early fight 1v1 would be Niefelheim (maybe blessed helheim as well due to high defence).

[MaxWilson]

Why not Ashdod with a good bless? Ahimans are actually better than Palankashas on a per-gold basis (though maybe not on a per-resource basis).

-Max

[Baalz]

Evilhomer said:
I ended up playing Hinnom recently and it seems even Lanka has trouble dealing with Hinnom. Lanka attacked me around turn 15 but managed to accomplish almost nothing doing so. Perhaps if the player playing lanka had opted for a heavier bless the fight would have been more even, but the fight still seems in favour of Hinnom.

Only nation I see taking out Hinnom in an early fight 1v1 would be Niefelheim (maybe blessed helheim as well due to high defence).

Yeah, that was actually me playing Lanka (with a water bless FWIW). Hinnom's PD stopped a largish raiding party of water blessed Palashankas by itself, there was no way to raid EH with anything short of a powerful army, and *his* powerful army while taking significant casualties didn't have any real problem. I tend to agree with EH that 1 on 1 the only real threat to Hinnom, and that's really just early on as Neifel doesn't grow in power over time like Hinnom.

[konming]

A group of 8 W4E9N4 blessed oriopata easily dispatched 26 Hinnom PD with no problem or casaulty.

[MaxWilson]

E9 is probably the key there. I bet the W9 Palankashas fatigued out.

-Max

[Loren]

The Lords of Civilization have a corrupt order. I tried it for no visible result but when I later attacked the province the defenders instantly routed and I couldn't find a commander amongst them.

Did it make the commander leave? Did it send the commander to my capital like seduction would have? (Had that happened it would have died.)

[Baalz]

Corruption is a gender neutral seduction. It doesn't do anything if there are no commanders in the province. Haven't done too much testing, but seems to work much more effectively than seduction, I think it worked like 6/6 times against crap commanders when I tested it out.