Abysian Newbie Tales

Aikamun · #1 February 28th, 2004, 11:36 PM

Made me laugh. I had similar experiences a long time ago (one month).

Sounds like your spearmen retreated to a neighboring province (Abyssia) and can be found in the garrison. So the battle report was correct, three died and the other twelve routed to safety

You also experienced bad luck, with all the flooding (especially with luck 1).

The stickied thread, "Newbies and Confused People", December 19 post has some good supplemental info on scales.

Good luck in your second war of aggression.

Aikamun

PDF · #2 February 29th, 2004, 12:03 AM

About the "lying battle reports" : reports are exact, what happens is that troops running away from battle find shelter in a neighbouring province and are no more with their commander, so you have to regroup them !
Great AAR, and truly newbie-ish

Argitoth · #3 February 29th, 2004, 03:32 AM

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Great Post! My first full game was with Abysia also. Good Times. Thanks for sharing this.

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... and omg, you just typed way too much. I can't read on.

*Ahem*

Ctennyson · #4 February 29th, 2004, 05:50 AM

This sums up every game I played until I tried out Ermor - Ashen Empire.

I dominated that game, and learned a TON by winning. I recommend it to all newbs.

I started with R'lyeh, in my first game, and oh my god. What a loss. Then Ulm. Loss.

I love Abyssia, though, too bad they have no archers. Love archers.

PhilD · #5 February 29th, 2004, 09:27 AM

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Originally posted by Ctennyson:
This sums up every game I played until I tried out Ermor - Ashen Empire.

I dominated that game, and learned a TON by winning. I recommend it to all newbs.

I started with R'lyeh, in my first game, and oh my god. What a loss. Then Ulm. Loss.

I love Abyssia, though, too bad they have no archers. Love archers.

The lack of "normal" archers is the easiest to compensate for, as you will find archer provinces everywhere. Just be sure to relocate them far from your Abysian troops AND Province defense, or they'll be one-use archers.

Ctennyson · #6 March 1st, 2004, 04:34 AM

Since you have fire mages, Fire Fend/Flaming Arrows is possible with Abyssia, but, heavy duty blood summons makes archers unnecessary.

I just like archers. Lol.

I like Tien Chi and Man mostly due to the archers, even Machaka gets played by me because of archers. I like the non-archers races, like Pythium and Arcos much less. Abyssia has other things I can get into though.