The Winnowing - DaMilano wins!!

[Cainehill]

archaeolept said:
you can't go by the Artifacts game - that had special reasons for ulm's success.

ulm is very weak. I'd recommend against them. try vanheim if they haven't been taken, and either go for a bless strat, or hvy inf followed later by your wonderful dwarves casting blade wind

Not to mention that Ulm having an early lead in that game doesn't necessarily mean much - it's mid to late game that Ulm really starts to suffer in.

[Nah27]

I'd also like to sign up, playing marignon, so far only one badly played mp game under my belt.

[quantum_mechani]

Cainehill said:

Not to mention that Ulm having an early lead in that game doesn't necessarily mean much - it's mid to late game that Ulm really starts to suffer in.

Not when they have access to tons of indy mages...

[Tom_Scudder]

With 11 or 12 in the game already (depending on whether TheWatcher plays) I'd say we might want to move to a slightly bigger map - The Desert Eye, maybe. Or Inland. (Going just with the maps that came with the game).

[OG_Gleep]

Ya right now I have acess to a buttload of indy mages and am doing quite well. But I'll take Valhiem.


Edit: Why do they suffer mid to late game? If you take a fairly competent rainbow mage, and even access to one or two different indy mages, you can summon where you are missing..and once you do most paths have access to summoned mages. Once your pretender has summoned the first one, they can start summoning in additonal mages for that path. And as ulm you can pretty much forge everything in the game with the right pretender, so you can increase +2-+3 in every path for every mage both indy and summoned.

[OG_Gleep]

Ok when do we start? once everyone has picked a race?

[Morkilus]

I think you'll do well with Vanheim. Just be sure to decide whether or not you want to go vans... they are freeking expensive and you want a good bless (fire, nature, or water)

[nihilistic]

Tom_Scudder said:
With 11 or 12 in the game already (depending on whether TheWatcher plays) I'd say we might want to move to a slightly bigger map - The Desert Eye, maybe. Or Inland. (Going just with the maps that came with the game).

I think that this is a valid point. What do people with more experience on the game think?

[shovah]

i would lean towards the desert eye because iirc it comes with the demo so hopefully is more well known

[archaeolept]

i think inland is a good map for that many players - just set up some victory conditions so that the late game doesn't get too hairy

I like desert eye, but it does have numerous bad starting positions... Inland its hard to go too far wrong.