Tourmaline - Mod Nations Game (Finished) - Page 14

rdonj · #**131** July 22nd, 2009, 06:52 PM

Well, what I meant is, so few turns into the game it's a bit unlikely you'd have scout provinces anyway.

Lavaere · #**132** July 22nd, 2009, 08:48 PM

Wow this is really bad, thought I'd try a new experimental pretender. And now I'm dead last and have afflictions.
Well atleast its going to be fun to see how the other nations work out.

rdonj · #**133** July 22nd, 2009, 09:50 PM

I was hoping the rat things would do a bit better. Well, hopefully you'll be able to put up a good fight for someone before you go down.

In other news, perhaps I should not have been so quick to express my happiness with my start location. It seems that heavy cavalry and elephants have been placed strategically to deter me from a brisk expansion. I can kill most of them, but there's the occasional group of heavy cavalry that's just too big and hurts one of my expansion parties too much to continue

Meanwhile, ferrosol, you seem to be doing rather well for yourself.

Ferrosol · #**134** July 23rd, 2009, 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by rdonj

Meanwhile, ferrosol, you seem to be doing rather well for yourself.

Well I tend to do best in the early expansion phase providing I dont run into any unexpected barb uprisings or large amounts of heavy cav. Mostly where I screw up is in the mid game so many options tend to have me going around in circles rather than focusing on one tactic

Sombre · #**135** July 24th, 2009, 04:20 AM

Man Skaven never seem to do well :[

the Vanishag · #**136** July 24th, 2009, 09:33 AM

That's weird. Looking at them before the game, I would have guessed they'd do well. They didn't strike me as having the most raw power, but as having an attractive balance of power and subtlety. But I'm still a Dom n00b, so I may have missed a fatal flaw.

Sombre · #**137** July 24th, 2009, 12:04 PM

It's probably just bad luck, though I think they are also tricky to play and have a suspect early game.

rdonj · #**138** July 24th, 2009, 01:20 PM

Yeah, I think probably their biggest problem for multiplayer is they don't have any particularly brilliant opening. No recruitable SCs, no powerful sacred, and even their elite units have pretty bad morale and a fairly average sat line. They're not completely helpless, but I can see them being a bit of a slow start.

Lavaere · #**139** July 24th, 2009, 06:24 PM

Well with skaven I tried a pretender I've never used before. Which really collapsed when he got affliction on the first turn. And that now I reallised. I did stupid thing by forgeting there are no Indies to recruit.

rdonj · #**140** July 24th, 2009, 08:19 PM

Grr, wind mages

I hate running into those guys. Luckily the battle went much better than I'm used to.