A Beginner Marignon AAR: Worth it?

[acantoni]

MY SETTINGS

I used those mods

Mind Duel Mod
Improved Light Cavalry
Mighty Militia
Alexander's Scale
Unwise's Flags

I'm not familiar with some of them (mind duel and alexander's scale), i read the descriptions and that influenced my later choices

So i created a new god of the Marignons

MARIGNON

In this game i'll experiment a kind of gameplay i'm not so familiar with.
Marignon proves to be a nice choice allowing me to have nice heavy infantry, vry powerful heavy cavalry and crossbowmans.
Marignon Priests are really powerful and they can also produce powerful mage/astral mage
It's a well round nation with lots of good units and no evident weaknesses.

MY PRETENDER

I usually play a rainbow mage for site searching, this time i'll play a Cyclops for forging and combat aswell

Cyclops
Cost 125
Hits 91
Protection 23
Morale 30
Magic Resistance 18
Strenght 28
Attack 11
Defence 11
Move 3/14
Encumbrance 2
Leadership 75

3 earth
5 research
fear
fire resistant (100)

As you can see it's a pretty powerful being in combat.

[Kelan]

Glad to see you are taking up this project. I like reading these AARs to learn the game and get an idea on what things different races can do.

As a follow up to my post yesterday, my game I was planning on doing an AAR for went badly in a hurry . I found myself spending so much time making sure I wrote everything down that I would completely forget to do critical things each turn. A couple turns I didn't recruit any troops even though I had lots of gold, and then I got my only Norna killed by leaving her next to my pretender Son of Niefel on the battlefield (I assume his cold shield killed her that he cast on himself). I had her ferry some troops to the front line and was planning on testing her out in a battle.

Since I am only on my 2nd full game I will play a while and enjoy the game before I try to write an AAR sometime later... most likely a different and new race.

Good luck and I am looking forward to reading.

[ March 03, 2004, 14:58: Message edited by: Kelan ]