How often does an awakened god win?

AreaOfEffect · #1 August 1st, 2008, 07:27 PM

A poll of sorts.

I'm just wondering how frequently an awakened god wins over a sleeping or imprisoned god. Often I wonder if the vast amount of people swearing by it actually win or are just impressed with their survival into late game.

I suppose I'm just looking for testimony from players who have seen it work. With the exception of one entry, the Hall of Fame doesn't provide any of this information. I feel it's important for me to know if I ever plan on making another guide.

Chris_Byler · #2 August 1st, 2008, 07:38 PM

Hmm... As stated, this won't really help assess their viability, because the data you get will be entangled with their popularity.

If you had comprehensive data on how many awake/sleeping/imprisoned gods started each game, and what type of god won (if any), over a large number of games, then you'd be able to say something about the effectiveness of awake gods.

AreaOfEffect · #3 August 1st, 2008, 07:52 PM

Indeed, that would be the ideal data set to make my assessment from. However, I'm currently at a loss on how to obtain that information. I suppose I could start collecting data from games currently in play. That of course means I won't have an answer to the question until about half a year has gone by. It also assumes people would cooperate with me on the data collection.

ano · #4 August 1st, 2008, 08:13 PM

I don't think this is a problem. After a year passed you may freely ask any question and if someone doesn't want to answer in the game thread, he may PM you

Skirmisher · #5 August 1st, 2008, 08:39 PM

My awake god was crushed quickly. A Wyrm, Dominion 5,Luck 1, w/ Lev 3 Astral and Water magic.

An enemy army was operating close to my Keep, I sent the Wyrm out with availible forces to intercept the enemy.
It never made it back.

Win? No

Tifone · #6 August 2nd, 2008, 04:17 AM

Mmh personally, I wouldn't send out an awakened Wyrm with less than Dom10... that Awe synergizes well with the Fear aura, going without it seems taking big risks to me - even if I'm still a SP player now so I don't need great minmaxing.

IMHO, I think an awaken pretender can give you some nice advantage for the early expansion rate. But it is necessary (and fair difficult) to put this advantage in very good use to overcome the better scales, blesses, and late game diversity/high paths that the imprisoned have chosen.
Moreover, not many gods can go out on turn 2/3 and start taking provinces by themselves - even some of them, very good at fighting, need some gear, dunno many of the Titans come to mind, so it seems a far better idea for them just to go dormant and try to have some good construction and self-buffs researched for the end of year 1.

Ok, I said a bunch of obvious things. ^_^