New Kinda Noob game Starting

[Groundworm]

Originally Posted by attackdrone

The independents jumped me first. Considering that my provincial defense has an attack of 8... even militia can beat them, and they did!

Yep, Agartha lost its army twice to tribal independents then had its capital provincial defense beaten by an opponent's militia mercenaries. Oh, Agartha! Truly they are a tragic race.

Edit: Yes, I have been using troglodytes to augment my tard-sloths. They did not work as well as I had hoped.

Oh, attackdrone, that's terrible! I had a game where I was plagued by misfortune to an incredible extent, but... your capital was overtaken by militia. I'm kind of snickering, but I'm also very sympathetic. I'm sorry your game went so badly.

[Ragnars Wolves]

Geeez AD, I heard Argatha was somewhat challenged but not THAT challenged...

I appreciate you telling me this as I know now come hell or high water I will stay away from them. I'm kinda like Groundworm, sorry you had such bad luck...but better you than me.

[Xanatos]

i suppose agartha needs an SC pretender to start off then, to keep that from happening.

[mockingbird]

Or perhaps a bless (probably F4E9N4 at a minimum) and use the sacred giants and Oracle thugs.

[attackdrone]

Originally Posted by mockingbird

Or perhaps a bless (probably F4E9N4 at a minimum) and use the sacred giants and Oracle thugs.

Yeah I went with F4E4S4N4 as a blessing, to get my sacred units into reasonable attack/encumbrance range and open up nature and astral.

The issue is, you still need to be able to capture at least one province at the start to get resources. Agartha's best sacred units are 37 resources and 55 gold. Their other sacred units (the ones with an attack of 9) are 40 gold and 19 resources. They're armed with a spear of all things! Good luck getting a repel with an attack of 9.

Oh and Oracles are pretty sub-par thugs. Base (naked) encumbrance of 5, precision of 7, base attack of 9 and defense of 11 is not the best chassis for a thug (for the earth/water version, which is the best stats wise). Also, about half of them are old! It'd take an awful big blessing just to make them anywhere near the other giant nations and their recruitable thugs. Did I mention they are cold-blooded?

[Ragnars Wolves]

Why are we on a 72 hour turn rate when we are on turn 9?

I didn't set it that way, any objection to setting it back to 24 Hours for a while?

[zultor]

24 hours is fine with me but I don't think it has been set to 72 hours. I think there is an issue with the server not updating times correctly.

The next turn is scheduled to process in less than 24 hours unless you have already set it back

[Ragnars Wolves]

ahhhhh, thanks Nope, i'll just leave it alone and see what happens.

[Xanatos]

i submitted my turn but still got a stale=(

[zultor]

Did you get a response email from the server indicating a successful submission?