First inkling that you�ve won/lost an MP Game?

[sansanjuan]

Wondering if some of you more experienced players would share some of your memories here.

I was also curious how often �domes� get used in the MP arena?

-SSJ

[Twan]

I use domes often if I have an air or astral mage and a good gem income to cast them (I like domes stopping spells not just doing bad jokes).

I never encountered an ennemy dome in 7 MP games so my impression is they are not very used (but I rarely use attack rituals on ennemy forts so perhaps they are).

[Torin]

It�s often used. Attack spells are common too.

[Lingchih]

In all the MP end games that I have been involved in, domes were quite common. I have even been subjected to "dome-busting", where an opponent would rain 20 or more attack spells at a dome, in order to knock it down.

A good hint that you are about to lose is when your oppenent/opponents starts sending Tartarian SCs at you, and you don't have any of your own.

[sansanjuan]

Thanks for the replies all.

So there is no easy way to make "Tartarian-sauce" out of them [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Grenade.gif[/img] ?...

I noticed that SCs was plural. Does the end game often have many single SCs running about to take and hold provinces and fewer massive armies?

-SSJ

[Foodstamp]

The end game commonly boils down to a few unique artifacts, Tartarians and Arcane Nexus.

It makes one wonder what the game would be like without Tartarians and Arcane Nexus . My guess is MP games would last MUCH longer.

[Twan]

Usually you have massive armies with an handful of SCs in them, and some flying/teleported SCs and/or mages teams doing surprise attacks on less defended provinces, to cut retreat or open a second front (or just to annoy you).

[llamabeast]

I have never seen Arcane Nexus. I won my last game with Forge of the Ancients. That was nice.

[Hadrian_II]

lots of the MP games have the arcane nexus disabled, but if he gets up, the playert that casts him wins. (or at least in games i am in)

[Xietor]

i always use domes in mp. There is no point to taking good scales and not putting domes up over key provinces. I always take good scales though, if i took bad scales i may not bother with domes.