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Post by vladikus on Mar 14, 2012 15:42:01 GMT -5
Technically, you won it by the rules... May have to edit them now ulius, there is something in the universe of random number generators that favors you (or perhaps AI deficiencies).
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Post by ulius on Apr 4, 2012 2:39:22 GMT -5
After playing mostly MP I finally replayed this one and won as a Burgmeister vs a Pale One on the first go.
The AI was disappointing. It started next to a Graveyard and an Ancient Forest (but my start was that bad too) and the map was flooded with Indies.
On the Score Graphs after the game I saw that I had a stronger force continually after I had outgrown the AI's starting bonus, so it failed to get income. The AI seems to lose quite a few games, because it doesn't care at all about indies. If there are 3 deers running around continually unflagging its resources it doesn't start hunting those deers down.
Furthermore I noticed the AI seems to be obsessed by certain resources. There was an Iron Mine with 2 Rubies in my territory and it kept continually sending stacks there (that I continually killed), though there were easily defended Coal Mines, Villages and Hamlets next to its starting position. It didn't care at all about those, although they would have been almost free income from the start.
We started on opposite corners of the map, so it still took a while to kill it (damn those slow Hoburgs).
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Post by mulkmulkmulk on Apr 8, 2012 4:25:00 GMT -5
There we go. version: 3.04 I beat the Pale ones with high cultist. Mostly just capped res and got the coast and just sat next to his main getting more and more summons. After getting the main it was a matter of time and hunting. Pale ones ai tend to split troops alot; so many 5-20 small packs wandering :/
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Post by hunter on Apr 9, 2012 5:42:57 GMT -5
Alright, I'm on the board.
Groaned when I saw that I was an enchanter, having only played it a couple of times and not very successfully. However, it was great! Really got a roll on with one of my Enchanters, Necrotods then more troops, then Golems, then more Necrotods, then more troops, etc.
Then I found a gold mine and turned it into a Gold Golem. Has 500HP and 3 Armor, and by the end of the game, was at 493 HP.
Encountered the Druid in the middle, and played the 'scorched earth' policy, except that really it was 'turning the earth into more army for me' policy, which he couldn't really cope with that well (although he did take my fortress about the same time I took his).
Great fun!
(3.03)
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Post by silvano on Aug 14, 2012 2:21:24 GMT -5
Hello everyone I'm new to this forum but congratulations for this trial by fire thing, seems quite fun. Anyway I just completed this one. Version 3.11 I was the barbarians against a senator, have no idea of which age. At a certain point the AI just kept to send commanders towards my territory. The stacks were not too big so were easily killed. Anyway in this way the AI managed to get all of his commanders killed and I won
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Post by vladikus on Aug 15, 2012 6:27:27 GMT -5
Thanks and welcome to the ranking charts
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Post by mysterious on Nov 17, 2012 13:28:01 GMT -5
i just finished this one, as well.
took me a few tries, since i got indi-rushed the first 3 times.
i won with witch vs. bakemono now, empire i assume (capital and lots of cities present). took me ages to find a swamp, though^^
i'm really looking forward to the next one, this was more for the record than anything else, since one knight on a large map is no challenge for me anymore.
so is a screen/save needed as proof?
edit says, it's v3.15 btw
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Post by vladikus on Nov 20, 2012 20:12:12 GMT -5
Well done. Onward and upward! Your score is posted to the hall of fame.
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Post by cybersol on Feb 10, 2013 17:46:28 GMT -5
This Trail by Fire idea sounds fun. So I started up a commoner game where I ended up as a Baron facing off versus a Senator what I'm guessing was the Dark Ages. It was my first game as a Baron, but I was hopeful because Senator seemed like a good draw for an opponent. I started out in a nice little area with a decent number of villages and farms, surrounded a little farther off by 5 or 6 ancient forests. I first conquered that area and quelled the local animals. Just as my area was secured, I discovered a village of my opponent past a forest to the southeast. I decided to avoid that quadrant and instead focused on expanding to the southwest and northeast.
About a year later, my second largest army of 44 units accidentally stumbled upon the first of the Senator's commanders wielding an army of 34 units, foolishly out in an open field. My knights led the charge, and though my front ranks were decimated, I made it out with a few knights and basically all my archers and crossbows. This allowed me an uneventful expansion and regrouping over the next couple of years.
At that point my largest army, now just over 100 units, stumbled upon an enclave of the Senator in the northeast, consisting of a city, a tower, and old castle, and several villages. A white wizard was defending the tall tower with heavy defenses (3), but his entourage only measured in the twenties. The Senator had foolishly splintered another 40 units to a nearby village right as I came upon him. So I charged the undermanned tower, sacrificing 15 units to breach the guards, but securing a highly defensible position right at the doorstep to his enclave. I recruited out of the tower and soon took the opportunity to ambush his 40 unit stack. With his main forces neutralized, I systematically conquered his smaller defences to secure the enclave. At that same moment, my forces far to the west defeated a wealthy merchant, allowing the old castle and tower to rapidly pump out reinforcements to return my army to full strength.
I suspected the Senator's rage might cloud his judgment, and so I waited for his counter-attack at the enclave. Indeed, he soon responded with both a wizard commanding 60 units and a hortoculturist leading 45. But my reinforcements had come too fast, and his split forces were no match for my large army. I finally shattered the hortoculturist, the last of the Senator's commanders, to end the 74 month campaign.
Looking forward to the next one, cybersol
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Post by mek42 on Mar 22, 2013 3:18:38 GMT -5
I was a Warlock (water) against a Demonologist. First time playing a Warlock. This challenge is fun. It took 5 or 6 tries before I made it through this one. It was in Fallen Empire, as I was able to take the undead city.
It took a long time to finish. I think 4 or 5 years. I did not have very many mines at all near my starting position, so I didn't get to play very "warlocky" until the end game.
Game version 3.18.
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Post by ozibird on May 24, 2013 11:29:44 GMT -5
Finished the first trial today. Great fun. And so much use of that delightful "burn forest" ability to create nice paths through the map for unit picking in mines and druid nerf. Version 3.18
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