Great minds think alike?

[The_Duke]

Hey Guys,

I have played the game for about a month now. Really surprised by it. I read about the game and how DEEP it goes and thought I should find out for myself. At first I did not see so much, but as a spent more and more AND MORE time, I was surprised at all the different aspects of the game.

I love Targa’s Karan map. I am closely following the Random map gen. threads and was hoping that they could one day generate maps of that graphic quality.


For my first thread, my question is this:
There are quite a few great walkthroughs now. And any beginner should have no problem getting a hang of the game relatively fast, but one mastering the basics, there are not a whole lot that I could find on becoming a great player.

Although I consider myself a average player No , above average player No , good player Yeah , I was wondering how great players play the game. One of the things that make this game so great is that it is so open ended and depending on your stile, you create the ultimate strategy.

Here are the thoughts that go into my game. I like playing Pangaea. They have good medium costing troops that you can start recruiting from the start and have quite large armies in no time that is not too shabby. For my pretender, I usually go for a rainbow. I usually go with Arch Mage or Great Enchantress pretender. They have cheap magic paths. I give them one of each magic paths, and then concentrate on my scales, boosting almost everything. Hoping that a good empire foundation should give me the needed resources to have large armies. I them search every new province, usually keeping my pretender out of major conflicts, till well in the game once I have empowered him a little more.

I have no idea how to do a melee pretender, very risky.

So, how do you great guys approach your games?