Faction Power score going nuts?

Gold, Gold and Gold. Faction power does not matter for anything but diplomacy. (try doing insane games, you will be at 100-200 power while the AI's are rocking 500+ for no reason)

What do you mean? Cuz they're now at 2460 faction power while i'm at 398.

So i decided to get a chat up with Atlar, I checked them.. they're at 2850 pop, 9 settlements, -9.2 net income, and power rating of 2460... and i'm at..

5095 pop, 18 settlements, 74.4 net income, and power rating of 398..

But I have a storm dragon now.

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Hmm okay I hope its just a bug. Thank you everyone.

For anyone that cares.

Altar must've looked at the faction power score and decided he had this game in bag.

He marched two full armies towards Retia Fortress... I didn't like that so I hit it with Tremor, and it hit all two armies because they was all on same tile.

Then I had a idea, Won't that be quite.... catastrophic if I hit it with a tornado spell? 18 units scattered everywhere? Intriguing. So I went and hit them with Tornado.

Then I marched up my Steel Golem, its an upgraded version of Iron Golem but with better Endurance as in regenerative powers is higher plus faster. and bit tougher and checked one of the melee units from the opposition.

Tremor, so it keeps the scattered units immobile for 3 turns? That's just enough time for my Golems to sally out of Gail fortress and eliminate all of the enemy units one by one in detail

After those two armies got wiped out by Golems annihilating them..

My Sovereign army went into Altarian territory and attacked a Conclave.. They sent three full armies, I read Falling Star and realized it would do 33 damage to each unit and proceeded to nuke three armies protecting the conclave. The big surprise is that Falling Star will also hurt the militia of the city!!! So if you have enough shards for Falling star to do big damage, the militia will get wiped out before you proceed to assault the city.

Then all of Altarian heroes learned what it's like to be killed more than once in a turn <_<

They didn't even stand a chance, Falling star + Storm Dragon + lvl 15+Soldiers led by a lvl 19 sovereign. The main army's soldiers hp is now in 500+hp range due to me spamming guild grocers. I think i have like 10 of them built now.

Basically the war was like, charge to next city then hit it with falling star and all the altar heroes in it is back on 1 hp again instead of like 10 hp and proceed to assault it my sovereign army. Rinse and repeat. The toughest soldiers i seen Altar field was some where in 160 hp range and that was it.

Despite me and Altar being tied in faction power before they got their cities become bugged. The difference in strength of armies was so damn huge.  And they even had an advantage while I was swallowing two wildlands at same time by accident instead of one at a time so I had really high unrest while waiting for fortresses to get their onyx thrones up and running. They failed to build up good and their manapool. I had 2k mana before I started my invasion of Altar.

SO when I brought Altar to it's knees I decided to go and demand surrender from Altar....

This is what he told me when the last of his soldiers is 1 hp heroes and a single built unit and Relias himself is Immoblized in hospital healing from Eight Star Falls thrown onto his head.

I got annoyed by him rejecting my surrender demands outright so I dropped another falling star onto his last city which immoblized all his heroes AGAIN. Then my Sovereign Army plowed through Kraxis's Sovereign army guarding the last Altar City and ended my movement in the forest just in front of the last city's walls.

All of suddenly, the kingdom of Altar has been annihliated by Monsters and Ruffians! The might of Monsters and ruffians grow  we should prepare for them lest they turn their eyes towards our lands! That's right, AI city got attacked by monsters and destroyed My only regret is that I didn't take a screenshot cuz I was too surprised by the turn of events. So I saved and reloaded to get the screenshot, 30+ turns and I did exact same things including the one falling star thrown onto the last city but Monsters disregard the last city cuz its funny to make me rage for 30+ turns. I gave up and went ahead and make this thread

OH and I found the bugged city, its a random level 1 village that magically became level 100 lol.

Good to know that "Power score" can be misleading sometimes. 

And great story. Loved that the Altair leader had got eight (8) Falling Stars cast on him. He would have been very irritated and very hurt...

How big was the map?

the size of the map is large according to game set up. Oh and map type was Ravaged, It was one of the hardest map I ever played on

Balanced is way too easy when compared to ravaged.

Why is ravaged harder to play on? Fewer city-locations? (I didn't think the terrain mattered for that.)

(Sound like a good way to make some games a bit harder.)

Uhh well NeoNick7.. If you look at my earlier screenshot. . . You will see that my Cities is set up in two large clusters.

The ones on the left is my homeland, then one sin the right was two ex wildlands. Imperia and the Blue Chasm. then in the middle of both territories was a  huge wasteland. Nothing to settle whatsoever so I had to spam outposts.

And then do you see one city in the south that's almost isolated on the minimap? It's just north of Retia and Gail while mostly surrounded by water. That was the Formerly Umber Capital which I took in a suicide rush very early. I was constantly dealing with monsters raiding my outposts and armies in that big wasteland.

And to compound the problem further, there was practically no food at all. So I ended up spamming towns and conclaves. Not a single fortress was built. Then I had tons of lvl 1 soldiers running around because I realized that I had a weakness due to no fortresses. And at same time I was fending off Raids from Imperia towards my outposts in the wasteland. Half of the attacking forces included like 7 obsidian golems lol.

And and then.. I lost an army to cyndrum demons. They're so freaking weak so it took me by surprise when I learned that they heal to full after a kill. I lost a lvl 1 army to demons then Never again, I had ascian dedicated to keeping cyndrum pit under control.

I had really really high casualty count until at least one of my army which is the sovereign's soldiers managed to survive long enough to reach level 6 then it became comfortable from there and I could start flexing my weaker armies around.

Sovereign army went and protected City of Cyndrum from Kraxis and Altar who wanted it.

Othollo army reinforced Sovereign from time to time. One of weaker army.

Jedelle army and Irwan army went into Imperia and cleared it for me because all the obsidian golems died attacking my outposts. It would've never happened if they didn't leave imperia lol. And it seems like they don't respawn at all Thus after clearing it out i settled like nuts then wandered into blue chasm and went oh TREASURE CHEST I WANT !

Jedelle went and tried to loot the treasure chest I saw.

Worm god pops out of the hiding from the blue chasm and went LOLOLTROLOLOLOL I KEEL YOU NOW LULZ. I was like D= I uh wow, you got me >< It popped the moment I moved her onto the chest hex, I was deceived successfully because I thought the boss wandered away due to no number icon displaying over it the chest.  Then well enjoy your win blue worm god and he said thanks I will enjoy it! Pressed autoresolve. Oh I win? What, And I only lost a sand golem and Iron Golem but my five spearmen plus hero survived the battle. Ooookay. (They was still wearing leather armor and pikes at this point of game.)

And I went uhoh, i'm not ready for a wildland to be cleared well rushed quite a few pioneers and settled conclaves, towns, fortresses and outposts. I reached unrest rate of 40-90% in all my cities.

Sovereign/Othollo succeeded in protecting my kingdom until Prisons and Onyx thrones got constructed. And then I started the invasion of Altar Kingdom. Altar Kingdom tried faction power score haxx0r and it was ineffective...

Oh one more thing, Life Shards in my territory was totally absent. I felt like crying when I cast heal for 16 hp. Normally I'm throwing them around for 30-50 hps. And invasion of Altar only resulted in me finding one LIfe shard, it was completely absent from western part of that map lol. it hurt me to watch units die off when they would've normally survived out of all my games so far.