Is Pangea - Carrion Woods balanced?

Beorne · #1 July 20th, 2004, 09:58 AM

I'd like to play with my friends using this theme. But I have read forum Posts where a lot of people got disappointed with this theme, being difficult and unbalanced.
The Posts were old so I hope the Last patches have corrected and rebalanced this theme. Is this true? Is playable or I will be bashed by Vans, witch hunters and fire lizards?

Thank you

Norfleet · #2 July 20th, 2004, 10:04 AM

It's playable. It has a number of weaknesses and deficiencies, but it's not the worst thing in the book, either, as of 2.12. I wouldn't rank it among the top-5 most competitive for the most people, but if it fits your niche, you can easily do well with it. Alas, it still does sort of play kinda like a watered-down Version of Ermor.

PrinzMegaherz · #3 July 21st, 2004, 01:29 AM

Think of it as a weaker Version of Ashen Empire

djtool · #4 July 20th, 2004, 02:14 PM

does CW eat population at the same rate as AE?

PrinzMegaherz · #5 July 20th, 2004, 02:33 PM

CW has a killer dominion, although its slower.

But then, CW has to take growth scale for nothing (okay, it slightly increases the chance of spawning carrion creatures in your provinces)which gives you less points than a comparable AE Pretender would get

Boron · #6 July 20th, 2004, 02:50 PM

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Originally posted by PrinzMegaherz:
CW has a killer dominion, although its slower.

But then, CW has to take growth scale for nothing (okay, it slightly increases the chance of spawning carrion creatures in your provinces)which gives you less points than a comparable AE Pretender would get

yeah -160 points for pretenderdesign

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Originally posted by Norfleet:
It's playable. It has a number of weaknesses and deficiencies, but it's not the worst thing in the book, either, as of 2.12. I wouldn't rank it among the top-5 most competitive for the most people, but if it fits your niche, you can easily do well with it. Alas, it still does sort of play kinda like a watered-down Version of Ermor.

how quick does ermor kill population ?
4/5% for sg / ae per level of dominion or 4/5% in general ?
cw kills 1% per level of dominion right ?

a minor drawback with cw : the castles + the carrion lords / ladies produce supplies .
so if you are "unlucky" with events and get free militia every 3 turns you have to suicide them which sometimes isn't so easy ^^ .
they are so fearful that they often start running when the first arrows hit ^^.
with ermor they fortunately starve quickly

i like the trampling carrion beasts with almost 100 hp . they're like free behemoths