MP: Game of Dorian, military maneuvers ended, earcaraxe wins

[earcaraxe]

thanks!

i wonder about ur strategic ideas. shinuyama obviously went for breeding out a world-record number of zmeys, and tought me a lot about hunting them.

Ossa, did u plan to shoot for tarts from the beginning? What was ur experience with the rainbow minor bless u used?

Valerius, how did ur light bless worked?

my strategy was one i wanted to try out for a long time with abysia: taking an awake sage research zmeys in about 16 turns, then send them out so early when very few counters could be against them. it worked well in our war versus pythium and first versus mictlan, but then the mictlan ai killed all of them... :S (mostly mictlipoctli with skeleton spamming)

[Valerius]

Originally Posted by earcaraxe

Valerius, how did ur light bless worked?

This game reinforced my opinion that a light bless and scales is a stronger approach with Eriu than a full E9 bless. The way I see it a stronger bless lets you save on gems, stronger scales give you more mages. Since I been focusing more on Evo. magic recently I wanted to give a scales approach a try and found it was very effective. Until things went downhill at the end of the game I never reached the point where upkeep was so high I could barely recruit mages. But even though I think a scales approach is stronger I find an E9 bless to be more fun because it helps with thugging, which is my favorite part of the game.