EA Pangaea strategy

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renojustin said:
Guess I'll just have to say it again, Order is 100% better than Turmoil/Luck for Pangaea.

This is a longstanding and fairly widely held belief, so much so that I'd say the majority of experience players almost always take order-3 and some level of misfortune. I think luck is fairly underrated though.

With luck you:

Get an income boost regardless of the population of your provinces. The gold bump from luck scales starts looking a lot better if you're stuck with mostly wasteland and mountain provinces.

Barbarian/knight attacks can be strategically crippling on top of the gold impact.

With Luck you can also take a death scale - something that isn't usually a realistic choice if you're taking misfortune.

You get bonus gems, bonus items, and bonus chaff. The usefulness of this is generally marginal, but can be quite good if...er...luck is with you.

National heroes can be quite good from giving you much needed magic diversity to giving some solid thug chasises.

Anway, I have to disagree that order is 100% better...