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[Bananadine]

I've played as Quitti says. It works fine, until you get tired of your slow, predictable progress and give up.

It's still possible to lose this way, though. I had a little C'tis in a corner of a huge map once--I was going for some ultimate spell, or something, while an enemy R'lyeh was beating on me and on some other nation I never met. I did fine until the unknown nation fell and R'lyeh began to really thrive. Then the crappy, unready enemy armies that had always been falling into my grinders became so big that they actually won once in a while. But it was the enemy dominion that finally beat me.

[krpeters]

Originally Posted by Bananadine

But it was the enemy dominion that finally beat me.

I was going to point this out as another possible risk -- if you're growing that slowly, domkill is a real danger. I guess you would need a fair number of temples and priests to protect against this?

I think I'm going to have to try a game this way and see what happens!

[krpeters]

Hmmm, well, that actually helped considerably.

One of the big problems I have against the AI is attrition -- when he flings 100 troop armies of crud against me, and I defend with 100 competent troops, I'll lose 10-20 troops. Then he hits me with another 100 cruddites. And then 150. And then 200. And then...

Cranking up the D to 50-60 is expensive, but the AI can't dent it. Interesting.

So why doesn't this work against human opponents?

(BTW, I was playing Abysia; the humanbred PD is reasonably good. I wouldn't try this with Bandar Log or Shinyuma)