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[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

What does it say about the game that when I see the new turn file the first thing I did was go and check if someone stalled?

Edit: Oh and Ulm is taking the hall of fame by storm with 4 units in it when no one else even has 2 in it

[Hellheart]

It should go much faster now, but when I checked a few minutes ago I was surprised that I was holding it up. So basically the same mindset.

[Hellheart]

Is it obvious that I started next to a lot of Barbarians?

Really thought I wouldn't win Sanne, but super glad I did. My expansion prospects were going to be TERRIBLE without these archer mercs.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

I can't afford mercs because I find that early expansion for Machaka is greatly improved by dumping the starting cash into lions.

[Hellheart]

Hey, if you give me your entire military I'll give you ALL of my lions.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Sadly I don't know where you are so I can't just "give" them to you right now.

[Hellheart]

Oh well I'm over in---

...Wait a minute. You just want to know where I keep all of my lions so you can steal them without giving me anything in return!

I'm onto you.

[Criptfeind]

So, not to give away where I am or anything, but do these cities have anything special in them that I should be afraid of when I attack? The past few games I avoided them because they had war elephants, but now there is this one that just says it has a bunch of really shitty independents. Do you think I can kill it?

Edit: Wait, who the heck is Dagan? "Special monsters"? Clearly he's the secret NPC boss that we need to team up to defeat.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

All the city provinces have a large population and farms. Nice to have but they do seem to like fielding elephants from my testing as well.

[Hellheart]

Dagan is a Renegade. Those are bad. You should overbid on him massively so you can kill him off to indies ASAP. For the greater good.

[Criptfeind]

Sorry. Spent all my money on underwater spies. Someone else will have to take up that job.

[tompliss]

Edit: Wait, who the heck is Dagan? "Special monsters"? Clearly he's the secret NPC boss that we need to team up to defeat.

Do you mean Dagon ?


Thrones provinces sometimes have a special army, with a pretender-typed random commander. They're sometimes just a bit harder to get, sometimes really hard. One with a Dagon would be a bit hard (depends on whether he was generated with magic), but I haven't seen one with a Dagon yet :/

EDIT: or do you mean Dagan, the Renegade Sage ?
Isn't he usually a mercenary ?

[Criptfeind]

Yeah, I mean Dagan, the Renegade Sage. It was just surprised to see him in the hall of fame with a different flag then everyone else, that says he is a special monster. I don't know what that means, but it was just a bit weird.

[tompliss]

Oh, you didn't met him, just saw him in the HoF
I think the merc that aren't recruited can be seen there. Some are generated with kills and XP already, making it an even beter idea to recruit them (for some nations), since they (and their troops) will have one or two XPstars or even an heroic bonus.

[Delta Foxtrot]

Yeah, some mercs start with a bunch of XP and thus show up in the hall of fame. Dagan is some sort of mage, can't remember the paths though.

Also IIRC the number of indie defenders is based on province income and farms tend to have high income, ergo many defenders. I also think that heavy cavalry indies like to show up in farmlands (knights & longbowmen in later ages definitely).

Oh and units only show up in the description if there are at least five of them. So maybe that's a province full of shitty troops, or maybe that is a province full of shitty troops and four elephants.