Dumb QUESTIONS

[Atrocities]

1. How do I get my Commanders to build forts,
2. How do I get my priests to build temples?
3. How do I get my Prender God to research Magic and stuff?

one suggestion. In the Army Set Up window, could you PLEASE put the EXIT button on the top. Thanks.

[ August 03, 2004, 07:57: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Wendigo]

In the map screen:
L-click on the text with the orders of said commander (default will be 'defend'), or alternatively press SPACE. You will get to a menu where you can select his new orders.

If you have multiple commanders highlighted at the same time, you can give orders to all of them this way.

[archaeolept]

lol

1. select "construct building" from the commander actions (click on the activity on the bottom of the commander icon), then choose "fortress", and have sufficient gold

2. remarkably similar to 1.

3. same, but choose "research"

[liga]

Originally posted by Atrocities:

one suggestion. In the Army Set Up window, could you PLEASE put the EXIT button on the top. Thanks.

from any windows in the game you can just hit 'Esc' to close it!

good play
Liga

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
Thanks guys. Hit the end of my second round with the demo. Kicked butt.

Man it is easy to get spread thin in this game. I was moving my troops from my core regions to the outer ones to fend off the MAN people. I was running real thin and lost a few regions to them. Although I took twice as many from them.

Search for spots on all the menus that will let you click them for another menu. And on those menus that can be clicked for a further menu.

If you Right-Click on a province that you do not own then the display for that provice you can hit "i" for info on who is there if you can know (its close by, or you have dominion strength there, or a sneaking unit there). You can also click the scale icons for info on whats affecting it.

If you own the province you can click on scales, and on taxes, and on defence. Defence gives free troops if you are attacked. Local militia which differs with each nation. It can be very helpful for not losing provinces too much. I tend to use defence numbers like 1, 6, 11, 21

[deccan]

Originally posted by Atrocities:

Man it is easy to get spread thin in this game.

I can sympathize with that. In SEIV, warp points are natural chokepoints and you tend to see huge fleets cluster at either sides of a key warp point.

In the Dom maps, it seems that there aren't many chokepoints. Because of this, in my Tien Chi game I'm finding that I can win every battle with my better quality, massed troops, and still lose strategically because I can't chase down every one of the enemy's troops. It's real frustrating.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by deccan:
Because of this, in my Tien Chi game I'm finding that I can win every battle with my better quality, massed troops, and still lose strategically because I can't chase down every one of the enemy's troops. It's real frustrating.

Feel like you're in Iraq?

[Sheap]

In the single player game, if you attack the computer players' home province, it will draw their fleets like a magnet, saving the annoying "whack a mole" syndrome.

The AI tends to attack the most weakly defended province. You can't catch enemies by attacking where they are, but once you get the knack you can often catch them by moving to where they are going to be.

Another option, which works also in MP, is to simply defend the important provinces, and ignore the others.

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Sheap:
The AI tends to attack the most weakly defended province. You can't catch enemies by attacking where they are, but once you get the knack you can often catch them by moving to where they are going to be.

I used this exact technique to devastating effect versus Ashikaga in my AAR. I "ambushed" the AI's armies in and near his capital, repeatedly, to weaken the AI until I was ready, and confident, that I could take his capital without fear of an effective counterattack.

[Atrocities]

Thanks guys. Hit the end of my second round with the demo. Kicked butt.

Man it is easy to get spread thin in this game. I was moving my troops from my core regions to the outer ones to fend off the MAN people. I was running real thin and lost a few regions to them. Although I took twice as many from them.