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Ragnars Wolves · #1 November 16th, 2010, 02:58 PM

Geeez AD, I heard Argatha was somewhat challenged but not THAT challenged...

I appreciate you telling me this as I know now come hell or high water I will stay away from them. I'm kinda like Groundworm, sorry you had such bad luck...but better you than me.

Xanatos · #2 November 16th, 2010, 03:29 PM

i suppose agartha needs an SC pretender to start off then, to keep that from happening.

mockingbird · #3 November 16th, 2010, 04:06 PM

Or perhaps a bless (probably F4E9N4 at a minimum) and use the sacred giants and Oracle thugs.

attackdrone · #4 November 16th, 2010, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by mockingbird

Or perhaps a bless (probably F4E9N4 at a minimum) and use the sacred giants and Oracle thugs.

Yeah I went with F4E4S4N4 as a blessing, to get my sacred units into reasonable attack/encumbrance range and open up nature and astral.

The issue is, you still need to be able to capture at least one province at the start to get resources. Agartha's best sacred units are 37 resources and 55 gold. Their other sacred units (the ones with an attack of 9) are 40 gold and 19 resources. They're armed with a spear of all things! Good luck getting a repel with an attack of 9.

Oh and Oracles are pretty sub-par thugs. Base (naked) encumbrance of 5, precision of 7, base attack of 9 and defense of 11 is not the best chassis for a thug (for the earth/water version, which is the best stats wise). Also, about half of them are old! It'd take an awful big blessing just to make them anywhere near the other giant nations and their recruitable thugs. Did I mention they are cold-blooded?

Ragnars Wolves · #5 November 17th, 2010, 02:22 PM

Why are we on a 72 hour turn rate when we are on turn 9?

I didn't set it that way, any objection to setting it back to 24 Hours for a while?

anticipatient · #6 November 29th, 2010, 12:04 PM

Well I haven't played in a while, but I remember Agartha having quite a lot of potential in the right hands

Kobal2 · #7 November 24th, 2010, 07:58 AM

I can't believe this.

It's now turn 18. Each and every one of these turns I've pumped a Yaksha out of my capital. Guess how many of those got the on-paper 1 out of 4 S pick I'd really really like to get ASAP to start cranking matrices, crystal shields and the like ? None whatsoever. 18 Yakshas, a little over 25% chance each, and not one gets the S pick.

It's official : the RNG can lick my hairy monkey nuts.

Xanatos · #8 November 24th, 2010, 05:29 PM

I am sad to announce that I am encountering an unexpected issue. I am traveling atm and accessing the game from various laptops via my external hard drive, but today (after 1 stale yesterday) I am unable to end the turn, i get the cant open file error and it will not work, and i will not be home until sunday

Kobal2 · #9 November 24th, 2010, 08:28 PM

Have you tried getting the turn re-sent by the server ?

Ragnars Wolves · #10 November 25th, 2010, 09:45 AM

I really hate to extend the game 5 days at this point in the game, not knowing if you have tried to get a server resend (actually, I have to do that in 2 of my games EVERY turn

).

However, as it is Thanksgiving in the states I will give a 24 hour extension, and we will deal with the issue then.

Any input is appreciated.