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Looking at the AI changes, I look forward to testing out the bum rush again. Mwahahaha...

[quote who="wercho" reply="29" id="2735976"]Fascinating report. I'm confused about the kiting though. How are you not suffering from counterattacks before you move? Deflect spell? All 1-hit kills? Or is your armor good enough to not take damage from them, in which case what is the benefit of kiting? Thanks for the info.[/quote] Ideally, your sov should be taking a weapons path that allows them to one-shot everything as they go. If you're fighting s

[quote who="awuffleablehedgie" reply="15" id="2735114"]Being Tarth (with the Great Warrior upgrade) doesn't actually do anything It's bugged. The most simplest thing they could do is make you unable to move after you've initiated an attack on your turn (but you can continue to attack). This makes move-move-attack viable, but not attack-move-move. Attack-move-move requires intelligence to counter since you can't just keep running at them over and over[/quote] Not allowing m

[quote who="tesb" reply="7" id="2733554"]the magic equipment only costs crystals on your troops, for the sovereign it is only gold also just conquer a neutral town (this can be done very early) and you have a crystal mine[/quote] I just tried the rush-to-magic-items tactic you suggested, but it wasn't quite workable... I just didn't have the gold to get the equipment, forcing me to rely on outdated stuff for far too long. I suspect that unless you happen to

To be honest, I haven't really touched campaign, but I'm guessing the low HP totals are due to them being level 1. Have them participate in a bunch of battles against weak mooks and survive, and they should level and gain higher max HP totals. At least, that's how it works in normal games.

The theoretical reason to have a single overpowering city would be that almost all buildings work on % multipliers. Thus, the more resources you can get under a single city's belt, the larger an effect those multipliers have. That said, in practice it's simply faster to build cities all over the place as your food allows, because you'll end up with a huge income either way.

[quote who="astrath" reply="9" id="2733576"]Looks like Froggy has an exploit to close when he gets back. I mean 'close' by making the AIs realise what you are doing and ganging up on the bad guy.[/quote] Totally agree with you on that. Although, I wonder if they would have been able to stop me by the time they knew what I was doing. I blew out that gate and ate cities like a hurrcane. I feel like there's a few exploit-ish things here, honestly. 1. Being able to r

[quote who="tesb" reply="7" id="2733554"]the magic equipment only costs crystals on your troops, for the sovereign it is only gold also just conquer a neutral town (this can be done very early) and you have a crystal mine[/quote] Ah yes, you're right. How much do they cost? Seems like it might be a bit hard to scrounge up the cash that early unless you're aggressively hunting goodie huts.

[quote who="jimehau" reply="3" id="2733540"]Can't wait for multiplayer. Can you rush my city before i can make a 6pack of spears? doubt it.[/quote] Depends on starting positions and number of players. Assuming you two start within a relatively decent space from each other, he has what, maybe between 6 and 12 turns minimum before you can get grouped units up and have the cash to do so? He moves about 18 tiles every 3 turns, so... that's a fair bit of distance covered.</p

[quote who="tesb" reply="5" id="2733541"]@master blaster you can get very good armor and weapons much faster by researching magic armor/weapons i used to research warfare as well, but if you only want to get good stuff on your sovereign really quick magic is the way to go, much less techs required.[/quote] Definitely sounds worth trying. Although, I'd be concerned about the cost in Crystals. There's no guarantee of finding them early on, and don't all the mag

[quote who="sprasz" reply="2" id="2733510"]Kinda takes away the fun of the game tho. Proberly fun way to go in multi player but gratz beating the game so early on. One can only hope some changes are made but i really dont think so.[/quote] I've actually completed the game three times now. The first two were pretty "legit" victories. This time around was just me attempting to see how fast I could overrun the entire world with everything set to insane. I probably could ha

Right now, due to the ability to create your own sov, it is entirely possible to completely wreck the game via intense specialization. How would you like to conquest the entire world in 150 turns? Own every city in the game? Take a look. How do you do this? It's simple. MAX. ATTACK. Pretend magic doesn't exist. Forget abou

Now I wanna see this done with attack rings. Bwahahah :D

[quote who="Aloriel" reply="14" id="2727962"]Hmm... I've researched past the ancient maps one. I had been neglecting quests tech because of the wars with two imperials. My sov marches around with an ARMY of soldiers and summons that stomps imperial cities.[/quote] Our soldiers should have a party together!

If you're starved for cash, the Quest line of tech will spawn tons of goodie huts and you can often get quite a bit of gold out of them. And yes, I very frequently pick non-gildar options when leveling towns, as 1 * 1.2 gildar is nowhere near as useful as, say, 10 arcane research * 1.2. It's all about specializing your cities. I actually wish there were more city level up options.. the current ones are nice, but rather limited.

[quote who="Aloriel" reply="11" id="2727885"]Yeah, I've been going nuts in my current game looking for this stuff. Of course, I *also* haven't found horses... My initial spawn point was near a Warg den (yay), but since I'm a Kingdom (Queendom?) I have no use for them. Pardian(sp?) has horses though, so I bought some off of them. Anyway, no sign of Elementium yet and I've conquered quite a large part of imperial territory. I want my legendary shields![/quote]

[quote who="Akitoscorpio" reply="4" id="2727690"]How on earth did you acquire that?[/quote] It seems to be a 100% drop chance from certain lv4 Notable Locations. If you rush adventuring tech, you can be swimming in it by turn 100.

I would like to mention that I just had this occur to me for the second time. I am beginning to think this is actually some sort of problem with one of the techs not giving you its notable location level when it is supposed to, because I have maxed the adventure tree (again) and my notable level is still sitting at 4.

What do I do with this stuff? I've found 12 of it so far... It's apparently so rare that no one's even put it on the wiki yet. @_@

[quote who="dawgs4ever" reply="4" id="2725912"]Like he said, we're giving up until a new patch comes in. Still, very frustrating.[/quote] So until tomorrow afternoon, then? :P

I discovered pretty early on that you can get a twelve-stack of these for about the price of a mid/high level weapon for a single champion. The only real barrier is tech, since resources are so abundant. Build that 2 more times and you've got roughly 3000+ combat capability. *goes off to stomp on all the other countries*

I had this problem as well. My super-crashprone overlarge-cities map has me maxed on nearly every tree, including max adventuring. My "noable location level" was still 4, however.

Yeah, it seems kinda weird to me too. SUPPOSEDLY with my two air shards I can do up to 70 damage per hit, but I've never seen any of my attacks do more than 15. Ever.

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.5ghz Nvidia 9800GTX+ I'm getting maybe 2-8 FPS on the world map right now, owning 8 cities. Resolution = 1920x1080, No anti-aliasing, standard foliage, low shadows, depth of field disabled.

Step 1: Get near to the cap on tiles with improvements built on. Ideally, 3 or less tiles left. Step 2: "Absorb" a nearby improvement into your city. This counts, for some strange reason, as tiles with stuff built on them for your city. This will most likely drop your available tiles by 4 - bringing you BELOW 0, to a negative number of available tiles. At this point, you will be able to build as many improvements as you like. The cap is gone. Note that your city's fence will most like