Tartanians

[Twan]

DonCorazon said:
I actually find MP a blast, its just that the games take so long that as a noob, it takes you 3 months to realize that, while you may be one of the leaders in terms of provinces, gems, and research, you may actually have zero chance to win.

IMO it's never the case. If you are first in research you have lots of mages, so you can win even if you have missed the usual SC/artefact based strats. Mages and an higher research than your opponents are the best counters against anything.

You just have to equip well your mages to resist against the kind of mass destruction spells or artefacts your ennemies can use, and script them to cast anti-SC spells (slaying/enslave/paralysis spells if their MR is not too high, or unresistable fatigue or dammage against the unit type -a tartarian and all the undead chaff surrounding him may be killed by a dozen of mages casting wither bones ie -or even solar rays if he is the only target-)

The gems and army size stats are the most misleading ones as magical income (clams etc) don't appear, and army size count an overpowered SC just as one size 6 unit. But if you are first in research (and to a less extent provinces, income) you usually have good chances to win.