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[quote who="KingHobbit" reply="3" id="3265243"]Champs need to be generals until later stages of the game.[/quote] I would not go this far. All three groupings are viable at all points of the game (tank + mage hero pair, hero + army, solo hero) My guideline is 'the smallest force necessary to take the enemy without risk". After all, when you have just two heroes together, no experience is lost, and sometimes, some is gained. That is, the total expe

[quote who="athelasloraiel" reply="7" id="3265081"]why does it happen that another faction always gets more gold from our trade treaty?[/quote] You and it both get a 10% bonus to your cash income. If it gets more, it's because it had more to begin with. I also usually get less than the AI on trade, but I usually get two or three times more than them on technology treaties. And of course, once you have beaten an AI down to a smidgeon of what they used to be, you can u

Why do you find random maps crap? Just curious, I play nothing but large random maps, and for a while I've even stopped re-rolling.

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="23" id="3265020"] A capitar sov with discipline, mancer blood and capitar's lucky trait, and high level. [/quote] Well, I ran into my own custom, but I guess it was damn close. He had Krax blood (Fortify) instead of Mancer blood, and that did not make things any easier. I was lucky the AI had not picked Death II yet. And I was playing standard Verga.

[quote who="GaelicVigil" reply="14" id="3265028"]More toys in my sandbox is ALWAYS better.[/quote] Hard to disagree here, expect to remind you that developer effort channeled into one toy reduces developer effort on something which may be more important.

I'm looking forward to ships. I looked forward to ships in Total War games for a decade, and now Naval combat is awesome. I hope than in a few more decades, Creative Assembly will even make an AI that handles naval invasions flawlessly. (As opposed of naval invasions being the easiest way to crush an enemies' armies in Legendary Shogun 2) So, give Brad and Stardock some time. I am sure they WANT to have good ships in the game. As for dynasties, I do n

Yes, of course. If you use blindness on a lucky level 15 sovereign with discipline, he will still be hitting you a lot, especially if you are not using a high dodge unit. I find blindness a smidgeon too good now (it should expire in combat, after a few turns) but it is not a 'I win' button. It never was, really. Dodge used to be too good, now it's balanced.

Yes. We should have more ranged staves, and every mage level should give a tiny, but STACKABLE bonus to ranged staff damage. Like 1 or less per path.

[quote who="Chibiabos" reply="16" id="3264948"]Blindness seems to not be working, as reported by another user.[/quote] Are you sure about this? I tried it myself since I read Kongdej's post, and it was working for me, as evidenced by both the detail screen and by my sovereign dodging all attacks until his riposts killed all the enemies. And I 've used it a lot since release, and there've been no updates.

[quote who="Chibiabos" reply="16" id="3264948"]And you must be fighting different dragons than I am, because every dragon I face has initiative such that they get 2-3 rounds for each of my archer's rounds [/quote] I said "champion's lance". Marksman gives a bonus to spears. The guy I was talking about is a lancer, not an archer.

[quote]My mages have no spells to cast. I thought that they were able to attack from a distance. Do they need to level up before gaining spells or perhaps I need to research a prerequesit?[/quote] Champion mages may not have any tactical spells at low levels. For example, an "Earth Apprentice". Level him up to get stuff like "Shockwave". Trained troop mages have a ranged attack with their staves. That's all they get.

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="135" id="3264765"]The point was I didn't want him to feel all this work was wasted, when he didn't even get to the point of going back and testing what he wanted to test.[/quote] It's not wasted, we found the rounding error. And I'm doing the saves now. (I wiped out Karavox in a few turns, everyone but Altar is allied to me, Altar has fallen slightly behind, and I do not feel like leading Procipinee in wiping out a human faction, s

[quote who="ntino" reply="55" id="3264851"] I only used them to know how strong creatures are - "weak" "Medium" and "strong" are hardly good indications unless you want to wait 100 turns before fighting anything.[/quote] You should make it a habit to check the detail screen to see what you are about to fight. I have been playing for a long time, but I still do not know exactly how hard different enemies are, especially because something that's no threat to a level 13 assassi

[quote who="DeadlyJulia" reply="51" id="3264661"] i lost my colonel becuase i misclicked in these glitching 2 levels of an ufo (you know what i mean). Instead of climbing up like he should, my brave soldier ran straight 1 square in front of an enemy and was sho[/quote] Yes, I know what you mean. It happens because there is a valid destination UNDER the tile you are aiming at. You have to rotate the map so that there isn't. [quote who="ntino" reply="5

[quote who="Lord Xia" reply="12" id="3264881"]If anything we need to boost other spells to be better, not make every spell in the game marginally useful. [/quote] Hear, hear!

[quote who="Chibiabos" reply="8" id="3264852"]Without Shrink, dragons would be unassailable until you could cast Diamondskin.[/quote] There's also blindess, or you can have a dragonslayer marksman + champion' lance + giant form double-strike the dragon. I've had my Verga kill dragons with one shot, and he did not have access to life magic. Or Nochd, but that so much of a special case (assassin with leathal) that it does not count as much of an example.&

[quote who="TorinReborn" reply="14" id="3264923"] Early game you buff her like crazy, give her some weapons and armor and fight in melee. [/quote] Personally, I give the crown to the first hero I meet, because chances are, s/he will be a better melee fighter that Procipinee. Procipinee can provide battlefield spell support (Haste, arrow shield, slow). You have to remember to let Procipinee get an army and start gathering xpt on her own at some point, for the prestige growt

[quote who="Mtn_Man" reply="8" id="3264747"]What concerns me about advice like this is that it makes it seem this is the only way to play when there should, at least in theory, be multiple paths to victory even in the very early game.[/quote] Yes, I have heard that sentiment expressed. I am not sure I agree with it. To me it seems like basic stuff that you always do "build peons first". I have won without doing this - on smaller maps, you can do with one city

I do reload while I'm learning to play a game... but once I feel that I know what to expect, I have more fun playing without reloading. But to each his own. My enjoyment is in no way affected by how other people enjoy their games. That said, I hate games where you cannot succeed without reloading. Fortunately, Fallen Enchantress is not one of them. As for Ironman mode, I do not need one, especially as Fallen Enchantress is not bug free enough to rely on o

[quote who="RedeemerAZ" reply="5" id="3264542"]Tried raise land spell, but doesnt work on ocean tiles =/[/quote] I think they broke it recently. It used to work when it cost 50 mana (I used it in a grand total of one game, but it did work)

Can you be a bit more specific? If it covers everything, then I should just drop this experiment, the job is done. But does it cover any questions about roaming monsters giving AI pioneers a free pass? Does it affect how long it takes Big Beast to wake and whom they target?

[quote who="DGB246" reply="35" id="3264521"]Yeah master scouts is good but I wouldn't consider it OP or broken - the other traits should be boosted so that they are on par IMO [/quote] Master scout, enchanters, binding, defensive, lucky, heroic, slave lord, wanderlust are the top tier race traits.

If I was in charge I would do this: The store belong to an ally: knock yourself out, but you're paying 10% more You have a NAP with the owner: everything but faction specific items is for sale, with a 25% surcharge You have positive relations with the owner: you can buy stuff, but with a 50% tax You have negative relations with the owner: you are using the black market, 100% price hike

Oh lord. Do you know how many people have complained about this in the last few months? Thanks for adding your drop to the bucket. No sarcasm whatsoever. Every post like this makes it more likely someone will do something about it. I just wish it had been done before release.

[quote who="temple_dan" reply="2" id="3264436"]I think the main problem for me is that I can never get any units better than Destiny's Guard and they are about as strong as wet cardboard. No matter the difficulty level, the AI out-expands me, out researches me, out produces me and out units me.[/quote] Check the play through, serious. The link's in the above post. I cannot give you a full strategy here, but you should be doing all of these at least until