Can I get some cheese with that...

[NTJedi]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
If somebody were to say that, I would immediately deploy for war, since that is obviously his intention anyway: The only reason you'd be concerned about your opponent building castles is if you plan to imminently attack him, and thus want him to be weak and exposed: Otherwise, an opponent who castles is actually working in YOUR favor, since he will not be able to effectively conduct an offensive operation against YOU without rendering his castles irrelevant. Given that such a message obviously indicates an imminent desire to invade you, appeasement is out of the question. I think we learned enough about that in WW2.

Well if player A, player B or player C were all the same size... and myself was twice the size of any of them then sending such a message to all players is usually effective. There will be the one player(player_C) who says hey I will utilize my gold for other resources/investments delay on building castles. And then there will be the player such as yourself that says "F.. You.". As a result you would be the first in the path of my expansion while player C has a longer time of peace and building.
And if our strategies were equal then you would most likely lose... unless one of the others came to your rescue.

As a result I would also make a peace treaty with player_C for 15 days or so.

[ May 26, 2004, 20:10: Message edited by: NTJedi ]

[Cohen]

The Caster doesn't need an army.

Machaka spiders? Uh what a good lunch for my SC ...

Try to play against Norfleet at least once, after we can talk again about that.

I mention Norfleet cause he's a skilled player, that adopt (if not invented) this strategy.

[NTJedi]

Originally posted by Cohen:
The Caster doesn't need an army.

Machaka spiders? Uh what a good lunch for my SC ...

Try to play against Norfleet at least once, after we can talk again about that.

I mention Norfleet cause he's a skilled player, that adopt (if not invented) this strategy.

I wasn't talking about the cheap spider knights

and I'm sure my SC could easily tango with your SC

[ May 26, 2004, 20:19: Message edited by: NTJedi ]

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Originally posted by Yossar:
All you have to do is press F7, pool slaves, and pool astral pearls. Not much micromanagment unless you are doing a lot of blood sacrificing and then have to put the slaves back on the priests.

Unless, of course, that the gems you have on your commanders are there for a reason. In which case you have to reassign gems to every commander who happened by a laboratory each turn. Result: Extensive, pointless micromangement.

[Huzurdaddi]

Well if player A, player B or player C were all the same size... and myself was twice the size of any of them .. There will be the one player(player_C) who says hey I will utilize my gold for other

Yes if player "C" was retarded. All 3 of them should attack you immediatly if they know what is good for them. You are twice their size. If they don't gang up now then all is lost. Comming in 2nd is still losing.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Cohen:
Machaka spiders? Uh what a good lunch for my SC ...

You'd be surprised at just how effective webs, especially web spit, can be against a lone SC. They bring the SCs defense down to 3, and force it to spend one of its moves breaking free, so they half the effectiveness, and make it so that all of your units can hit. Tangle vines work in much the same way.

[Norfleet]

I think Cohen misunderestimates how effective Machaka Spiders backed by Mandragorae are.