Strategy advice wanted

[Loren]

PDF said:
I'm unclear about what you did encounter : in SP I've never seen the IA empower mages, rarely boost them and overall it doesn't have enough of it by far...If you're playing MP well that's life with a better opponent

Single player--I don't think about playing a game MP until I can consistently beat the AI.

It was a whole pack of mages with death 4. My troops would rout before they could close.

Also make some Skull mentors to boost research, give them to Flamen or such that you can recruit anywhere.

I never found a death gem the whole game.

Then go Ench5 for Pale Riders, Ench6 to summon the dreaded Banefire Archers, and Conj5 for Bane Lords, those are even stronger and with some equipment can kill many foes.

I never lived long enough to reach such levels.


I finally won one as Ermor. 4 opponents. One attacked me, basically the whole game was my cav stomping on him. I had two provinces with contact with other hostile forces, I put high defense in both and they kept wasting their troops on inadequate attacks on those. I dominion-killed both of those. As I was closing in on the guy I was dealing with he was dominion-killed by the remaining enemy--and then a few turns later I dominion-killed him.

The only difference I can see is that I started out with a more defensible starting point. I was on a peninsula and there was no water enemy.

[Shovah32]

You never got to around lvl5 research? You realise that you should be aiming to recruit atleast 1 mage per turn right?
And as for never finding a death gem, afaik all ermorian eras have some starting death income and mages who can cast dark knowledge(remote death site searching)

[Lasu]

Shovah32 said:
And as for never finding a death gem, afaik all ermorian eras have some starting death income

They don't have any in the early age.

[Shovah32]

Then alchemy will be needed early on.

[Endoperez]

Shovah32 said:
Then alchemy will be needed early on.

Manual site-search can be done. It is easiest for Death, because some Death sites can be recognized from the fact that they change the Death scale. Even if they aren't found with D1 or D2 sitesearcher, Dark Knowledge can be cast once even a single site has been found.

[Edi]

The death sites that increase death scale are all lv3 or above. Death does have proportionately the largest number of low-level high income sites, so the D1/D2 manual searches could very well pay off.

Edi