Newbie Slug Fest - Mose Hansen game - ENDED

The Panther · #1 September 14th, 2004, 08:37 PM

I was wondering why your province count was heading the wrong direction. Who did this to you?

DragonFire11 · #2 September 14th, 2004, 09:09 PM

Well, honestly I fault myself. I probably should have played it a bit safer. Instead, I launched an ill-advised invasion against independents and lost my prophet and starting troops in the process. Because I cannot recruit on this setting (which I have never before played) I've been pretty weak since then. So along comes Mictlan, he smells weakness, invades my two poorly defended provinces and is sieging my Last. So it's almost time to go to the grave (again). I can hardly blame Mictlan, though I always long for a long interesting life. He doesn�t sound like he�s in a bargaining mood either.

Steerpike · #3 September 14th, 2004, 09:47 PM

Yeah I saw some of the action with my scouts and boy Mictlan handed it to you on a plate without much trouble for him. Mind you I have little sympathy for Ahen Empire Ermor I mean diplomatically you are just begging for your neighbours to attack you. I think this map is not suited to this empire at all. And why dont people take normal Ermor? Theyre not bad IMO,playing them in single player I had a great time and diplomatically you are not the evil one to be destroyed by all as soon as they can gang up on you.

DragonFire11 · #4 September 14th, 2004, 10:00 PM

Steerpike, I have to agree. When I joined the game I wanted to be the giants but it was taken. I figured I should get some Ermor experience under my belt. Sort of a know your enemy kind of thing. Sadly, I did not bank much experience here. Also, I didn't know what I was getting into with the Ashen Empire. I was surprised to find I could not recruit! You can laugh, but this is a newbie game after all.

DragonFire11 · #5 September 14th, 2004, 10:01 PM

And you have scouts out here already? That's fast work indeed.

DragonFire11 · #6 September 14th, 2004, 10:03 PM

And I see that you are in Melbourne. How is my tomorrow doing today?

Steerpike · #7 September 14th, 2004, 10:21 PM

Tommorrow is raining at the moment. Elephants are expensive and scouts are cheap. Also im not too concerned about research yet, I think I will be able to catch up. I am surprised you didnt try them in single player though. Ermor I believe starts out relatively weak regardless If given time to build up they are very,very nasty thats why I think this map was not a good one for Ermor. In my one and only other game where I played Mictlan incidently SG Ermor started in the corner of Karans map and he really had time to build up. I got knocked into next week by Machaka but I still think Mictlan is pretty good.