Happy New Year, New Game, New Players (Finished: Dojango/Mictlan Wins!) - Page 17

HoleyDooley · #**161** February 21st, 2012, 12:49 AM

Blood Bath!

That's the fighting spirit. I feel the same way right now!

Excist · #**162** February 21st, 2012, 12:16 PM

OOC:

I have to say that this definitely is the most brutal game I have been in and I think the only nations that haven't felt that at one point or another is Helheim and Mictlan.

I, myself, had done some majorly expensive moves of desparation to save myself from the jaws of defeat that have luckily panned out well.

Fomoria's very existence and rebound into life is due to TNN and Hinnom bidding for my attention, so I am sure they felt that way. At peak I had a couple of months where I was combatting Marverni, Fomoria, Hinnom and TNN forces simultaneously. I've never seen anything like that before haha.

This game has been exciting and action packed all the way through.

HoleyDooley · #**163** February 21st, 2012, 12:21 PM

I have learnt a lot over the last 2 weeks about the game. I would change a million and one things I have done to date. Thats the beauty of this game, a brutal learning curve. I am getting there, but still a ways to go. Good job Excist. I think you have me, but I'll go down fighting.

Immaculate · #**164** February 21st, 2012, 12:25 PM

Yeah, i agree. it hasn't really been quiet for helheim to be honest. I picked a fight with a nation that ended up being much bigger and better armed than i ever thought it was. Also- a killer bless on their flying pegasus made things harder than it needed to be. Jotunheim can attest to that.

But yeah, non-stop fighting has been really fun. I am still upset about my poison golem though...

Torgon · #**165** February 24th, 2012, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Excist

OOC:

I have to say that this definitely is the most brutal game I have been in and I think the only nations that haven't felt that at one point or another is Helheim and Mictlan.

I, myself, had done some majorly expensive moves of desparation to save myself from the jaws of defeat that have luckily panned out well.

Fomoria's very existence and rebound into life is due to TNN and Hinnom bidding for my attention, so I am sure they felt that way. At peak I had a couple of months where I was combatting Marverni, Fomoria, Hinnom and TNN forces simultaneously. I've never seen anything like that before haha.

This game has been exciting and action packed all the way through.

I am quite amazed that I am still alive as well. Although in all honesty, the quality of my turns has bee diminishing rapidly. I think I've pulled off some interesting maneuvers in light of the situation I was placed in.

Looking back I'm pretty sure of a few things I would have done differently.

1. Make sure I knew what the Argathan bless was prior to attacking. Your scales and bless will probably doom you in the long run, but early on its pretty sick and nearly unstoppable.

2. Attack Tir instead of Argatha early. I was completely boxed in, so sitting back and relaxing wasn't an option I had to attack someone. I picked a fight with Argatha and lost horribly, basically ending the game for myself within the first year or so, even if I did keep holding on. I think my blessed unmarked could have held their own against an early Tir.

3. Not use the strat I focused on with such a cramped map. My strategy, while a bless focused one, was geared more towards the late game. The real unit that benefits from the W9 bless are Formorias morrigans all the way up at conj 6. I was never able to expand, never able to build up a good gem income, and thus never able to really leverage this advantage. I should have geared more towards the early game with such a tight map.

Excist · #**166** February 24th, 2012, 12:45 AM

If it makes you feel any better you're not the only one to make mistake #1 & 2.

Marverni, Hinnom, and Tir Na Nog also made the mistake of attacking Agartha.

I don't agree with your third self-critique since 10-12 provinces per is not too cramped, although it appears that you had a slower expansion than Fomoria should have which led to a cramped position. Also, your strategy should have been viable since it looks fairly powerful early, mid and late game. I think you ran into problems because of your slow start and picking a fight with a nation that expanded quickly and had more resources early on.

Iron Duke · #**167** February 24th, 2012, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Immaculate

Yeah, i agree. it hasn't really been quiet for helheim to be honest. I picked a fight with a nation that ended up being much bigger and better armed than i ever thought it was. Also- a killer bless on their flying pegasus made things harder than it needed to be. Jotunheim can attest to that.

But yeah, non-stop fighting has been really fun. I am still upset about my poison golem though...

I don't know where you got the feeling that I was more bigger and better armed than yourself, but such was not the case I think. I was fighting with niefelheim and his awake pretender(and I was just starting to win) then your thugs attacked. It was fun though, still learning to do well in mp.

Immaculate · #**168** February 24th, 2012, 10:04 AM

yeah- i didn't know about the southern half of your nation or of your second fort. Also, when we started you had twice the provinces i did. so you were much bigger than i thought.

You fought really well- i've never tried a strong bless with acrosephalae. it seems like it really works better than i expected. Now i just need to hit all your forces with shimmering fields or some other mass AoE spell early to knock out your twist fate.

Torgon · #**169** February 24th, 2012, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Excist

If it makes you feel any better you're not the only one to make mistake #1 & 2.

Marverni, Hinnom, and Tir Na Nog also made the mistake of attacking Agartha.

I don't agree with your third self-critique since 10-12 provinces per is not too cramped, although it appears that you had a slower expansion than Fomoria should have which led to a cramped position. Also, your strategy should have been viable since it looks fairly powerful early, mid and late game. I think you ran into problems because of your slow start and picking a fight with a nation that expanded quickly and had more resources early on.

I actually had a pretty good expansion, I didn't lose a single party. I just had a terrible starting position. I ran into another empire within one province from my capital in every direction.

HoleyDooley · #**170** February 24th, 2012, 12:48 PM

So when the computer places nations at start, it doesn't attempt to place them with some degree of equality of being roughly the same number of provinces as all other nations?