MP Game - European War 2

[Cainehill]

Double blessing can work - in fact, I think it's fairly viable with Jotuns. Niefelheim though - can't remember if they still get the Jotun Woodsmen, and the Niefel giants are pretty expensive to build a strategy around (especially as they're capitol only, as are the Woodsmen). When you go so heavy on a bless strategy, it doesn't make sense to build all that many non-blessed troops....

And if your troops were routing frequently, it doesn't sound like you centered it around the woodsmen / Niefels, since once blessed they wouldn't have routed. (You _were_ blessing them, right? )

Also, Earth Momma doesn't go particularly well with Jotunheim, imo - her fatigue climbs _way_ too fast, since she isn't comfortable in the cold. Personally, I think Nature/Water works better with Jotunheim; possibly Nature/Fire, or Nature/Air (protection from all those nasty crossbows).

Better luck to you in the future.

[archaeolept]

I think double-bless troops is a typical newbie strategy.

yes yes no doubt

/me whistles innocently

;p

[Turms]

archaeolept said:

yes yes no doubt

/me whistles innocently

;p

Hello archaeolept. I saw your dragon in action, he was impressive.

But I was really amazed when I tried to count how much a fire 9 astral 9 dragon costs. Urgh.
I would never have guts to pay so much for the pretender.

Care to share your scales?

Turms

I put most of my points on scales, but that did not prevent me from getting stuck in Italy...

[archaeolept]

yah, you need truly atrocious scales for something like that. really, w/ zen's scale mod included such ultradragons will cease to be viable, i think. but i'm a fan of pushing bless strats when the opportunity arises. hell, when i encountered thufir's super cyclops (A4E8N3), 140 hp 30 prot mistform mirror image 14 regen, i only lost 110 gold in troops taking him down...

the scales are so bad i was trying to avoid spreading dominion, until i started to risk dominion death - i think it was around turn 20 i was down to a combined total of 7 pts of existing dominion in the world... :O

edit: hmm, it might actually have been only 5 pts - i seem to remember having dom3 in my cap, and domions of 1 in two territories.

[Zooko]

Yes, Niefel still gets woodsman troops, woodsman scouts (commanders), Jotun Jarls (different from Niefel Jarls) and Jotun Godes. Plus Niefel Jarls and Niefel giants. Lots of good bless troops! I really like the Woodsman Scouts. They cost no more than Woodsmen -- 50 gold, 11 resources -- and they are stealthy commanders with javelins.

They *were* blessed, but the routed because all units were either commanders or bodyguards, and one unit was killed. :-P

As to which blessings to get, I searched all of the Jotunheim pretenders to see if I could get two reasonable blessings for the cheapest price in points. Earth Mother Nature+Earth was the cheapest. I would take any pair of blessings made up of Earth, Fire, Water, Nature, Blood and Astral, except not Astral+Nature.

That's a good point about Earth Mother getting tired. I hadn't thought of that.

[YellowCactus]

I don't mind playing this one slow. But would like to get a **Turn Hosting** note on this board so I don't have to check the IP day after day...
-Yc

[Crash]

Sorry,

I'll log in when I get off work... about 12 hours or so, and get my turn in. I just kind of got used to the game not moving.



Crash. (Ulm)

[YellowCactus]

Is this game dead yet?
Hehe.
Every week we do like a turn. Lets take a vote to decide if the game will continue.
Ulm
Rylah
Mictlan-Continue 48 Fixed host
Pan- Continue 48 Hr fixed host
Emor- Continue 48HR quick
Machaka

-Yc

[Jurri]

Continue on 48h quickhost, sayeth I.

[Cainehill]

48hour fixed would be my choice - then we know exactly when the new turns are due / coming.