Boot Camp - Finished - Soyweiser/Jotunheim wins!

[Soyweiser]

Originally Posted by Valerius

Random thoughts: You can glean a good amount of information about people's builds by looking at the score tables early on. Also, don't forget to look over the available mercenaries. They can provide a boost to your expansion and, a bit later, allow you to site search in paths you don't have.

Here is the link:
http://www.llamaserver.net/showScores.cgi?game=BootCamp

Lot of interesting stuff there actually. 2 awake pretenders (or at least 2 with magical paths, I suspect pythium also has an awake pretender used for patrolling in the first turn (700+ gold? wow!)).

But I cannot really interpret the dominions part, and does pythium start with better gem sites? (because they have 8 gems, instead of just 5).

[durecellrabbit]

Originally Posted by Soyweiser

Here is the link:
http://www.llamaserver.net/showScores.cgi?game=BootCamp

Lot of interesting stuff there actually. 2 awake pretenders (or at least 2 with magical paths, I suspect pythium also has an awake pretender used for patrolling in the first turn (700+ gold? wow!)).

But I cannot really interpret the dominions part, and does pythium start with better gem sites? (because they have 8 gems, instead of just 5).

My guess would be a pretender that gives free gems. I did 140% tax and patrol. You can do higher and have better scales. I just stuck with 140% because high quick often left me with unrest.

[DragonRider]

Damn you Heavy Cavalry! In the one spot that would most negatively impact my first three turns of expansion. Oh, and what's this? Bloodhenge Druids right smack dab in the middle of my ALTERNATE path to efficient expansion. That's awesome how that happened.

At least it's not as bad as that one test game where literally every adjacent province but one was all Heavy Cavalries.

I choose to blame Pythium for this outrage based on the fact that I was totally gonna buy those mercenaries.

[Duncan_Frost]

Wow, I have double everyone else's dominion. o.o'

[Soyweiser]

Originally Posted by Duncan_Frost

Wow, I have double everyone else's dominion. o.o'

Which is a bad start for a nasty dominion type nation . You are already a threat . (I guess you took dom10, and awake).

[Ragnars Wolves]

Bahhhhhhhh, you didn't want those cowards anyway... they just ran away and cost me most of my starting army!!

[DragonRider]

How could you possibly know that? The earliest turn in which a mercenary could be involved in combat hasn't resolved yet!

[Soyweiser]

Originally Posted by DragonRider

Damn you Heavy Cavalry! In the one spot that would most negatively impact my first three turns of expansion. Oh, and what's this? Bloodhenge Druids right smack dab in the middle of my ALTERNATE path to efficient expansion. That's awesome how that happened.

You have an alternate expansion path? Bah, we giants of the frozen north only need one. And our god Loki, in all his wisdom has only given us just what we need.