EA Pangaea strategy

Baalz · #1 February 27th, 2008, 06:37 PM

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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...

Dedas · #2 February 27th, 2008, 06:50 PM

Don't forget things like cross breeding that Pangaea is good at, as luck also governs its success.

Another thing, if you are going to patrol the *beep* out of your country when playing Pangaea, you don't want:

*Death, because it will kill your population too quickly.

*Order, because it is too expensive. Plus, when your population is low enough it won't give you that much in return as the gold bonus is based on a percentage.

What you do want however, is this:

*Luck, as you can both patrol happily AND get nice rewards like extra gold when you are lucky. Plus, it is cheap.

You might want:

*Growth, because it will feed your ever growing armies (very high supply bonus) in the provinces where you do not patrol (why not in the forests to stay thematic?), and it also goes well with several Pangaean spells and songs. As a bonus to this you can also patrol longer, and the forests where you dwell in will grow in size more rapidly to support the ever increasing size of your army.