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| All Eyes on Marverni; Executor vs GFSnl | |
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| Executor | Sep 23 2012, 01:34 PM Post #76 |
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Danayel, I think a heavy resource nation would have a ton of trouble, but Yomi is perfectly designed to deal with Wayward star. You could have just recruited bakemonos the first turn and that would have been enough to neutralize the unrest effect. I'd have taken a research pretender to rush skelies and evo in your place to take advantage of your enemies lack of research. |
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| GFSnl | Sep 23 2012, 01:35 PM Post #77 |
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I have tested with Yomi and Marverni. And even in that short amount of time I concluded Yomi has a good game against Marv. And maybe my play with Yomi can be improved over what I have tried. And some other nations might have even better options. Maybe a pretender that reduces unrest or mittigates unlucky events. In the first game Executor with Mictlan nearly beat me. It's best if everyone tries to test different strategies and only then come to a conclusion. What is known now is that the strategy you choose was not very good. But it is not a solid basis for the claims you make. Even though they might be true. |
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| <span style=Calahan</span> | Sep 23 2012, 01:42 PM Post #78 |
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I've played in several games and been spammed early with multiple volumes of unrest causing spells. Rain of Toads, Baleful Star, Hurricane's etc etc, and patrolling is the go-to perfect solution for them all. So I'm honestly not seeing why the unrest is such a game ending problem for any nation unless it has problems with massing troops. (ie. It has no access to cheap, resource light troops)
Such as? Please list what game ending bad events can trigger that can't be controlled by taking, or not taking, other scales.
Not sure if any of that was a response to my question, but none of it is relevant (at this time). |
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| Sombre | Sep 23 2012, 02:01 PM Post #79 |
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Patrolling troops on cap is a reasonably nasty disadvantage, even if you get enough to keep taxes at ~100 You get the poploss and the fact the troops have to sit there. But this is nothing to do with the question of whether the spell is too good, just pointing out that the counter to it is not free. |
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| Lord Xia | Sep 23 2012, 02:02 PM Post #80 |
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I appreciate this conversation, I think after reading this I will be in a better position if I do have to take on Marverni, |
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| Sombre | Sep 23 2012, 02:02 PM Post #81 |
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Also I'm really glad this tourney happened. It's interesting. |
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| <span style=Calahan</span> | Sep 23 2012, 02:13 PM Post #82 |
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True it's not free, but it's usually less cost than the other side is paying in mage time and gem costs (unless it's Rain of Toads, as slaves are cheap and disease can be annoying) And not sure needing to assign troops to patrol your cap is so bad. As I'd be surprised if overtaxing your cap isn't a good idea in duelling anyway, so it would likely already be part of the general plan (as some early patrolling + overtaxing is mostly always a good idea in regular MP to boost early income) |
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| TheDemon | Sep 23 2012, 02:44 PM Post #83 |
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That all you can think of to fend off wayward star is an awake SC rush is frankly pathetic and insulting to the discussion. edit: I should clarify somewhat. Once this tactic became known I tested the worst-case (every turn / immortal pretender) and the likely-case (every turn / SC pretender) against a selection of counter-tactics for a selection of nations. Some nations are in fact lacking in counter-tactics, Abysia chief among those I tested. And yes, it was necessary to build to counter in every case (except, in my untested opinion, Caelum or Pan, neither of which I tested). But for no scenario did I find that there was only a singular build that allowed the target nation a fighting chance. Now, you can argue that Wayward Star is duel metagame-warping, and whether that's problematic or not, but I think we definitely need to wait on the tournament end results to make the determination if the countertactics available are too narrow. I can set my testing aside as being a single data point subject to bias, but if I do so then I would argue that any one game result should also be set aside in the same manner. On a personal note, I'm much more afraid of facing another blood saccer than wayward star marverni. The countertactics available for blood sac are much more difficult to deploy and much more subject to enemy action. |
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| Maerlande | Sep 23 2012, 03:47 PM Post #84 |
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Thanks TheDemon. Good summation. Oh and I agree on the blood sac. I'm doing a test run versus Lourdes Hinnom and while he's allowing me to annihilate the world, it's touch and go if I'll live long enough for it to matter. You've got to really fucking push hard versus blood sac on these maps. |
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| lourdes | Sep 23 2012, 06:33 PM Post #85 |
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I agree that dompush is a very reliable tactic. You can play defensively, which is a good advantage. And you can bloodsac (and probably it's even easier and simpler) wherever you want, for example close to your capital, as amount of provinces is so limited that earlier or later you start hitting enemy dominion The best result's I've got from trying many builds is investing into dom 10. You don't even need to research something really - even Construction to equip thugs. Many thugs can live well without Shields (maybe it's because we play EA though), and there is a good choice of weapon , armor and misc on Constr 0. The only cure which I see against domkill power on small maps is to use bigger maps, but to place capitals not on the opposite border of the map but somewhere not too far from each other, so you CAN try to conquire those provinces behind yuor capital but in this case have a risk of being rushed or meet some good midgame plan of your opposition without your control of what's going on there. The more I play the less I loose units - first games I played much more agressively. And now - play from defence and saving army (doing dompush the same time). Attack only if I'm bored and it's not a tournament game or need to test something else. |
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| BlanketThief | Sep 23 2012, 07:30 PM Post #86 |
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Poploss from the unrest is negligible; 30 unrest = 60 population lost to quell. That'd be a cumulative loss of about 210 unmodified gold if he casted it once a turn for 25 turns, which appears to be the average length of a duel game so far. Just pointing out all the other effects of the spell have a far more meaningful impact (Cost of patrollers, income hit if you don't, mistfortune events causing additional hits, etc.) |
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| Danayel | Sep 23 2012, 07:44 PM Post #87 |
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I yield.
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