Gnome #2 scenario - maps are not the same!

[Sammas]

It's a tricky one, but fortunately Gnomes are awesome

Try starting with 1 gardener, and use him to take the city to the south. After the gardener just build wolfriders for a while - be aggressive with them and use them to kill the runners that are out taking cities. Target the runners on cities that are close to being captured first. Use the gardener to follow and heal the wolfriders. Build a second gardener if you only have $1600 to spend in a round.

You shouldn't need to worry about capturing cities too much - I had just 2 gnome cities for most of the game. As long as you are building up your army while keeping the comps city/army count down, then you win.

[PhilD]

Obviously, Sammas' strategy in this scenario is quite different from mine. He's the uncontested expert on Gnomes, so his is probably best (but mine still works).

[Sammas]

Heh, well you've still beaten me the last few times, so I may have to switch races

I haven't seen anyone online for ages though :/

[Ken_Hill]

Phil & Sammas:

I finally got through it. I really did it with a combination of both of your strategies.

The key for me was taking the farthest most Elf city in the NE corner of the map. This seemed to split the elf forces just enough for me to defend successfully for a few turns while I built up enough forces to counter attack.

Great game - one of these days, I'd like to play a human! But, I have to get through the campaign first.

Thanks,
Ken

[PhilD]

Ken_Hill said:
Great game - one of these days, I'd like to play a human! But, I have to get through the campaign first.

The online game is definitely a new thing after the campaign. Hope to see you online soon (though, if you live in America, it might be hard since I'm in Europe and mostly living at European time)