Solium Infernum: Games 2 & 3
Dec. 17th, 2010 12:47 amGame 2
I try making a fiend centred around strong wrath attributes, meaning able to use rituals to destroy opposing legions directly without using a legion, and vendetta-focussed (able to declare blood feud with fewer vendettas), and a long game length. The AI is more aggressive than last time, but still not competitive enough.
I get a comparatively strong starting legion and buy some enhancements and slowly upgrade my resource-gathering stat. And carefully start only one war at once (this method is highly recommended). I manage to destroy my most annoying neighbour, despite him using some deceit rituals to steal stuff straight out of my vault and event cards to randomly destroy my only other legion. And then am closing in on my second neighbour while he desperately concedes to demands to avoid vendettas when the game ends.
But none of the AI players ever really compete, and I've conquered enough places of power and thrown enough insults at them that I'm at about 300 prestige to their 50, and if the game went on any longer I'd be able to roll my super-legion over them and destroy them all one-by-one.
Game 3
I test a starting build that dumps infernal rank and resource gathering and everything else in favour of the strongest possible martial rank, martial perks, and starting legion and attempt to blitzkreig in the first couple of turns of the game. I have no hope of catching up after that as my low infernal rank means I can demand very little of other players whilst they can insult me almost with impunity and my very very low resource gathering means it will be about 50 turns before I have better legions than I do now.
My starting legion is stronger than just about everything else on the map. If the AI had been properly scared and tried to capture my strong-hold it would probably have succeeded in taking me out in one shot, but it still scrambles after places of power.
I get lucky and capture a "+1 action per turn" place of power next to my stronghold, which is about the most insane advantage in the game. There's another "+1 action per turn" and some of the other strongest items in the bazaar, but I can't afford to bid on anything.
I excommunicated myself by playing a weak infernal ritual against the capital city. If I'd marched my legion over all to capture all the other players strongholds I probably would have won as soon as I did it, but I stick with my original plan and try to capture pandemonium and control the central parliament. But my starting legion, even buffed with the maximum one-off combat advantages my insane martial skill and anaemic resources can manage, is not quite strong enough to take the uber-strong building and my legion is destroyed.
(At this point I just quit, as I can't buy any more legions, don't get any events, get very very few resources, and can be attacked with impunity. I might be able to recover if the AI ignores me, but that would never work in a competitive game.)
I wonder how the "turn 2 attack" would work against human players?
I try making a fiend centred around strong wrath attributes, meaning able to use rituals to destroy opposing legions directly without using a legion, and vendetta-focussed (able to declare blood feud with fewer vendettas), and a long game length. The AI is more aggressive than last time, but still not competitive enough.
I get a comparatively strong starting legion and buy some enhancements and slowly upgrade my resource-gathering stat. And carefully start only one war at once (this method is highly recommended). I manage to destroy my most annoying neighbour, despite him using some deceit rituals to steal stuff straight out of my vault and event cards to randomly destroy my only other legion. And then am closing in on my second neighbour while he desperately concedes to demands to avoid vendettas when the game ends.
But none of the AI players ever really compete, and I've conquered enough places of power and thrown enough insults at them that I'm at about 300 prestige to their 50, and if the game went on any longer I'd be able to roll my super-legion over them and destroy them all one-by-one.
Game 3
I test a starting build that dumps infernal rank and resource gathering and everything else in favour of the strongest possible martial rank, martial perks, and starting legion and attempt to blitzkreig in the first couple of turns of the game. I have no hope of catching up after that as my low infernal rank means I can demand very little of other players whilst they can insult me almost with impunity and my very very low resource gathering means it will be about 50 turns before I have better legions than I do now.
My starting legion is stronger than just about everything else on the map. If the AI had been properly scared and tried to capture my strong-hold it would probably have succeeded in taking me out in one shot, but it still scrambles after places of power.
I get lucky and capture a "+1 action per turn" place of power next to my stronghold, which is about the most insane advantage in the game. There's another "+1 action per turn" and some of the other strongest items in the bazaar, but I can't afford to bid on anything.
I excommunicated myself by playing a weak infernal ritual against the capital city. If I'd marched my legion over all to capture all the other players strongholds I probably would have won as soon as I did it, but I stick with my original plan and try to capture pandemonium and control the central parliament. But my starting legion, even buffed with the maximum one-off combat advantages my insane martial skill and anaemic resources can manage, is not quite strong enough to take the uber-strong building and my legion is destroyed.
(At this point I just quit, as I can't buy any more legions, don't get any events, get very very few resources, and can be attacked with impunity. I might be able to recover if the AI ignores me, but that would never work in a competitive game.)
I wonder how the "turn 2 attack" would work against human players?