Solium Infernum
Dec. 18th, 2010 01:12 pmGame three
I choose a fiend with very high deceit. This allows him to subsist to a large extent on stealing resources from the other players without them knowing who did it. In exchange all my legions have a low movement rate. But about half way through I buy one of the really expensive legions which (a) has flying 3 so movement rate doesn't matter and (b) is a beast. And manufacture some vendettas, use deceit to stop other legions from moving either, and capture most of the places of power by flying the beast about.
Eventually it gets loose and runs amok (due to an event someone else drew -- fortuitously for them), but by then I have an almost unstoppable lead. I can't quite manufacture a blood feud against any other players to defeat them directly, but the game ends and I'm ahead on prestige.
Game four
I follow the somewhat-degenerate resource strategy. This involves taking several disadvantages, but bumping up the resource gathering as much as possible, and then spending most of the game doing nothing but gathering resources and raising stats.
I start off in a little cul-de-sac, and am SO passive I get walled up into two hexes, which is a mistake because I can't buy any more legions as I don't have anywhere to put them until I raise my deceit all the way to level six and institute some back-room dealing to manipulate of the neighbouring hexes to my side without starting a vendetta.
But at that point I have maxed out all of my stats, have six orders a turn rather than two, and own a startling array of artefacts. I use rituals to prevent any of the AIs from acting, use a ritual attacking the parliament framing my neighbour so he is excommunicated but I am not, roll over his stronghold, buff my expensive giant legion, and roll right over parliament as well. The AI is locked down and doesn't do anything. I win.
I think I need to play against some actual humans :)
I choose a fiend with very high deceit. This allows him to subsist to a large extent on stealing resources from the other players without them knowing who did it. In exchange all my legions have a low movement rate. But about half way through I buy one of the really expensive legions which (a) has flying 3 so movement rate doesn't matter and (b) is a beast. And manufacture some vendettas, use deceit to stop other legions from moving either, and capture most of the places of power by flying the beast about.
Eventually it gets loose and runs amok (due to an event someone else drew -- fortuitously for them), but by then I have an almost unstoppable lead. I can't quite manufacture a blood feud against any other players to defeat them directly, but the game ends and I'm ahead on prestige.
Game four
I follow the somewhat-degenerate resource strategy. This involves taking several disadvantages, but bumping up the resource gathering as much as possible, and then spending most of the game doing nothing but gathering resources and raising stats.
I start off in a little cul-de-sac, and am SO passive I get walled up into two hexes, which is a mistake because I can't buy any more legions as I don't have anywhere to put them until I raise my deceit all the way to level six and institute some back-room dealing to manipulate of the neighbouring hexes to my side without starting a vendetta.
But at that point I have maxed out all of my stats, have six orders a turn rather than two, and own a startling array of artefacts. I use rituals to prevent any of the AIs from acting, use a ritual attacking the parliament framing my neighbour so he is excommunicated but I am not, roll over his stronghold, buff my expensive giant legion, and roll right over parliament as well. The AI is locked down and doesn't do anything. I win.
I think I need to play against some actual humans :)