MP: EA: Master Blaster [NOOB GAME]

[Meursy]

Jesus Christ! How do you keep up with such a big empire, all that micro, it must be insane!

And sure, the Construction site next to your capital is good, but how did Mictlan not win the game? He had a Blood 60 percent off site right next to _his_ capital!!

Good call on calling the game now by the way, I'd go bent trying to marshal all those armies, mages and SC's into some sort of order

[13lackGu4rd]

I didn't win the game because I played horribly. I should have won easily but I couldn't do a single thing right. from rushing Caelum(rush failed, was stuck in it practically all game long, and he still wasn't completely dead at the end) than a lot of turns doing basically nothing, waiting for you guys to grow until you got too big for me, and ugh... that's it I guess. just totally blew it

[Meursy]

Don't feel too bad about it BlackGuard, it's kind of a lame thing to say but I guess you learned things for next time.

Just on the rush, why did it fail, if I can ask? I'm just curious to learn a bit more how the game plays out, and specifically how Caelum countered your Jags.

I've noticed EA Mictlan players often seem to get this huge rush of blood to the head and try to kill someone really early on. I don't understand the value in early game rushing in general a lot of the time, in a 6 player game I played it just resulted in the Mictlan player in question getting gangbanged. So even if you win it can cause you lots of problems, and you have to pour a lot of resources, which otherwise would help you develop, into an early war. If I understand well the Mictlan nation is mainly a late game power who just happens to have sweet sacreds to carry them through early game, not much else apart from blood, and a shaky middlegame.

And at what point did you find the blood site? If you're unlucky it might've been ages, blood searching is not very sexy, too many failed searches!

[13lackGu4rd]

it failed because I didn't play my cards right, that's all. basically Caelum didn't really *counter* the jags, he just recruited his regular army, which is pretty crappy. it's just that he had the numbers and I didn't split my forces enough, instead I kept suiciding into his large army with 20-30 jags. I actually found the blood discount site relatively early, as I manually searched with a few High Priests of the Sun, as they got some fire along with the rare holy and blood paths that there aren't too many sites for. again, I didn't take full advantage of this site, and just played horrifically.

as for rushing, each game is different but in this game with graphs off there is no reason not to do it. I just failed horribly at it in this game.