Moving Through Multiple Provinces

[rdonj]

Probably someone with forest and or mountain survival, like pangaea or ulm (ea). It's a little trickier if you want teleporting mages I suppose. Marverni would work if you only recruited carnutes and boar warriors.

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

Who has the best movements?
Personally for this I like Arcos since their cap-only mages can cheaply travel (air trapeze) to where I need them.

Helheim is kind of cool that way too. Also, you can use Stygian Paths to shuttle armies around. With high-MR, stealthy troops, Helheim is tailor-made for Stygian Paths now that the bug is fixed (yahoo!).

Astral nations with tough troops and/or battlemages, like Ashdod and R'lyeh, have access to Teleport/Gateway/Astral Travel. Ashdod can drop in thugged-out, blessable Adonim using Crystal Coin + Teleport. (You might think LA Agartha could pull similar tricks w/ their access to astral + death, but in practice I've found that they need too many boosters for it to feel worth it.)

-Max

[Endoperez]

LA Ermor: gets freespawn units, must summon all its commanders, all population is killed in their dominion rather quickly.

LA R'lyeh: gets freespawn units, can also recruit commanders, but lots of population is killed in their dominion automatically

Everyone else except PERHAPS EA R'lyeh: recruit all their units and commanders with gold (they gather from population), conquer more provinces, growth/death scale taken during pretender creation doesn't have noticeable effects before a province has been under your dominion for 30 or so turns. After some research and site-searching, may start replacing their normal armies with summons and supporting their normal mages with summons.

[Gandalf Parker]

You might also avoid the Maenads spawning version of Pangaea.

[Ironlord]

But you didn't really take LA R'lyeh next, did you? Did you?

No. early Age. I have enough water and air to outfit my mages with air breathing items. Interesting nation. I am going to try MA Ulm next, to see what develpoing a land army is like, and play withthe item creation options.

[lch]

Loren, that's very cute, but I'm afraid it still won't make this feature be implemented any sooner.

You'd probably have a better chance of convincing JK to make the AI scriptable and then implement the exhaustive province movement algorithm yourself. Which still is a very dim chance, if any at all.

[Gandalf Parker]

Nice pseudo coding Loren.
It might have stood a chance in the early days. But it does show that a change would not be fast and simple as the other things we have been getting in patches.