Tuidjy

There are a few reasons that I do not post videos. The first is that I do my play-throughts on three different computers: my desktop, a relatively modern laptop and a old hardened XP laptop I take on location. While I could set up audio gear and video recording on my desktop, there's no way I can do so on the laptops. The second is that I use these threads to argue points. It's much easier to do so by linking to a post than asking someone to look at 1

My advice is (1). My feelings are actually closer to (2) but only because the instant roads are amazingly inefficient and offend my min-maxing instincts. I'd like to be able to have a way not only to build my own, but to also demolish roads that I do not like. I love snaking, because it allows me to pull a variety of tricks, and because, old engineer that I am, I find beauty in a shape that's crystallized function.

I just found the Darkling cloak, which is a game changer, like the collar, the champion's lance, or skulla's mace. I think I'll add a new house rule: no casting darkness from the Darkling cloak. I had not planned on rushing the AI in this game, but I do not believe in playing suboptimally. Lets look at the situation: Karavox is rich, just got his second city, and Jack's army is quite good for turn 28. Furthermore, Karavox can recruit Kingdom

Aesome idea. That's for Master's Affliction, right? And screw turn X triggers. Can you make it level dependent? So that when the army leader levels high enough, he decides to start his own little keep...

[quote who="Nibelung44" reply="7" id="3280941"]90% of the time the AI should charge asap with all melee units, that would screw much more the player.[/quote] It amazing how often this happens. In Mount and Blade, it was the same thing. When the AI enemies get into a nice formation and advance together, or decide to shoot it out, or order a cavarly advance and charge, there are ways to form your troops and crush them with practically no losses. But whe

Never seen it happen. But lairs can be created by quests and events, which may look as if happened due to wandering monsters.

Whoever claims that the assassin is 'broken' is simply wrong. The assassin is arguably the most versatile class in 1.02, and has been so since at least .913 I level my sovereign into an assassin 90% of the time, and I can't complain about the way he performs. The first post of this thread has links to the play-throughs in which assassin sovereigns (and supporting heroes) kick ass. I also plan to leve

[quote who="seanw3" reply="10" id="3280798"]When are you going to break down and play my mod? All this vanilla stuff is going to stifle your skills.[/quote] Do not worry about my skills. :-) I think that playing a no-strength race is going to be good practice. As for your mod... I am just worried that too many boards are still dominated by people who can't make it through the beginning of vanilla Fallen Enchantress. I mean, there's three threads like

[quote who="parrottmath" reply="8" id="3280769"]Are you going to use the snaking mod in the game? or is it strickly vanilla?[/quote] Strictly vanilla. Not that I was not tempted, but the point is to show newbies a starting strategy. Your mod should BE vanilla, but I am not holding my breath.

Turns 1-?? Turn 1: The starting location is average. It quite good for production, with a clay pit and a forest nearby. Unfortunately, there are no other resources nearby, and the visible monsters are not the best. The hero is a bit of disappointment. Bacco the beggar has Earth magic, whi

The rules: No cheating , but otherwise, every trick in the book. No restoring except for crashes. Start position : no restarting. House rules. Despite having Ironeer blood, I will not be using golems. I will also not use Death for "Blindness" or Life magic for "Shrink". [added on turn 28] Despite finding a Darkling cl

This will be yet another of my play-throughs. The purpose of this one will be to demonstrate a starting strategy for a race that has no particular 'overpowered' 'exploits', i.e. a race with none of the overly effective synergies that lead the player into a particular strategy. This will be, at least in the beginning, a very meticulous description of every turn, and I will try to include the reasoning that goes with every choice. Thus, do not hesitate to a

It seems that #2 is gathering more support. So, what should the race be? I guess that the following are OUT: Krax blood, Men blood, Trog blood (these blood perks lead you into a specific strategy) slave lords,archers, death worship, flesh bound tome (lead you into a specific strategy) wanderlust, heroic (quest loop) binding, stealth, master scout, enchanters, cult of a thousand eyes (game changing advantages) Also OUT are "Beastlord" a

1) You can work to maintain good relations, and it has SOME effect. Unfortunately, this effect is rather small, and while it can be useful for making sure that a similarly-aligned nation does not attack you, it will not make you much safer from a more powerful, opposite-aligned neighbor. And on top of that, once that opposite-aligned nation attacks you, everyone more powerful than you is likely to join, at least on Expert and above. So, yes, in most cases, if you are actua

I really hate it when I'm missing a joke... But I hate it even more when I look up a joke, and then wish I could unremember everything about it.

There was a time, I was doing a lot of play-throughs, and I have another period of enforced rest coming. So I was thinking about doing one of two play-throughs: either (1) a grossly overpowered race/sovereign combo on Insane, so that the developers take a good look at the quest loop, or (2) an Expert attempt with a race/sovereign without ANY good abilities/synergies (no stacked dodging, size manipulation, jugs, quest loops, enchanters, scouting, etc) i.e. something that a newbie could

It's great you are adding the female sovereign mod. Are you considering adding the snaking mod? Especially for the new rivers. I have had the worst luck so far. EVERY game I've played, I've had the EXACT wrong river show up. Death for my Angels, etc... Quick question... you are including female henchmen, but who can make henchmen? Apart Altar, obviously.

[quote who="fenwe" reply="53" id="3280404"]Any tips for dealing with Ophidians? I cringe every time I see a stack.[/quote] Ophidians are a problem mainly because of their deadly bite. You may have the armor to endure their regular attack, but the deadly bite will seriously damage you. So it helps if you keep track of who has used their x3 attack, and who has not. Obviously, try to kill those who have yet to use the deadly bite before they do, and make sure to pull back you

[quote who="seanw3" reply="14" id="3280280"] If not that, leave it as is. It currently works just fine.[/quote] That's what I say, as well. Bringing back snaking to rivers and forests is the one change I would not mind, but I'm perfectly happy without it.

[quote who="seanw3" reply="8" id="3280089"]why not just make the 9 tiles around the city a limit[/quote] Because many cities do not have nine useable tiles around them. Hell, I am sure we have all seen the AI settle cities in which it cannot build ANYTHING but a pier, because all 4 adjacent tiles are swamps/rivers.

[quote who="crimsongekko" reply="10" id="3280221"]how does this have anything to do with land rejuvenation btw?[/quote] Right now, land in a city ZoC becomes fertile. Usually, it does not matter, because the tiles are too close to the center of the city doing the rejuvenation, but if you snake far enough, you start rejuvenating tiles that you can actually settle. As the minimum distance between cities is significantly more than 4, auto-built cities never rejuvenate any use

[quote who="NanakoAC" reply="34" id="3280238"]Take the altar ability that gives +1 prestige for completing quests, and make that the function of the adventurer trait.[/quote] You do this, and you will bring back the 'enhanced' quest loop - i.e. one will be able to get both 'betrayers' and a way to generate influence by the bucket.

[quote who="seanw3" reply="7" id="3280156"]It's mostly a matter of learning to deal with your environment.[/quote] I think that you are right, and it is NOT a good thing. I never play without a strategy to deal with big monsters early. I know a few, and I listed them somewhere... dodging+blindness, size manipulation, quest loop, beastlord, jugs, leading by the nose, etc... But what should you do when you do not have any of these? If you are trying to play a r

I really, really hate it. No more land rejuvenation? We will HAVE to use outposts to link remote cities? I can think of three more things that would be directly influenced by this suggestion. Crap. Shouldn't the consequences be considered before you people get excited? Have you seen how inefficient AI empires are? How disjointed their dominion, how high their unrest, how utterly out of position their armies? So, instead of teaching the AI how

I would love an AI that goes after the leader rather than the little guy. I'm sure the AI will evolve. I do not consider this a serious problem. Increase the difficulty to the point where you stop having fun winning this way, then look for another strategy. It CAN be done even on insane, but for that you will need the Altar quest loop (At least, that's the only way I have won on Insane without fighting)