EA Hellscapes(Play!)

[PsiSoldier]

Originally Posted by archaeolept

i'm not sure what you could do w/ it down... the brute fact is that you need a ton of _something_ in order to counter all the candles. I think I'd have been dumping all of your vast pearl income into juggernauts, and that's not too affected by AC as the casters can all be casting returning.

but even with juggernauts, the wave was just too far advanced - and I'm generally adding 5-7 more temple checks a turn.

Raiding can lower my bloodhunting, but not sufficiently. I'm about to start using all my Gem store (1300 or so) to convert to astrals in order to wish for more Blood... so that'll be a steady 200 blood every 2 turns income.

I'd never take a 4 starting dominion either; I'm guessing neither will Executor from now on. Some builds I can live w/ a 6, but that's the absolute minimum for me (except some Mictlan strats).

I could forge a lot of Stone Idols and cast a a whole lot of telastic animations but with horrors attacking the ones that forge or cast its not easy to do.

I'm about to try something else and hopefully take some of your forts and temples away from you without even having to fight for them.

You can wish for Blood slaves and all but the one doing the wishing had better be able to take on Doom horrors and makers of ruins. The Makers of Ruins can one hit kill even Abominations.

Ive had no problem killing them but we will see if you can say the same.

[archaeolept]

Originally Posted by PsiSoldier

Ive had no problem killing them but we will see if you can say the same.

I think I can take care of myself, thanks
______________________________

as we approach the final curtain...

I enjoyed the game, even though the map turned out to be pretty f*cked - especially for all those in the upper right corner. The war with Mictlan and Formoria was quite grueling; also, in large part due to how constricted the map was.

It was a pleasure dealing with both of you guys. You two played well; all that is needed is a bit more practice and thus knowledge especially of end-game tricks. Psi executed a perfect R'lyeh Turtle>clam hoard>wish strategy, but was likely not aggressive enough with his gem dominance in the end game.

Still, a good fight, and I _almost_ feel bad at stealing the win ;p

I'd say Hinnom still needs a bit of nerf, if just to its ability to dominion push; although, if people had been paying attention, and started to counter the dominion when it first started making its appearance, the end result would have been much delayed at least.

GG all.

ps - in my experience, the "metagame" wishes, like dominion and territory, are understandably a bit weak; otherwise they'd allow really easy strats. Wishing for Gems, or special SC's, or even a crucial item, seem to be the best uses of it. That territory wish mostly just flipped a few useless Niefl provinces to R'lyeh.