Hot time in the old town tonight!

aldin · #1 December 24th, 2003, 09:51 PM

Is there an easy way for zero heat/cold scale nations to adjust for unfavorable hot or cold? In other words, with preplanning, can you create an aggressivley hot/cold dominion that hurts the other guy more than it hurts you? It'd be a nice way to free up points...

~Aldin

apoger · #2 December 24th, 2003, 09:54 PM

>Is there an easy way for zero ...

No.

Not even a hard way.

You will either have to suffer the same dominion you are spreading, or take a nation that is comfortable in the extremes.

SurvivalistMerc · #3 December 24th, 2003, 09:56 PM

I have heard that heat and cold scale don't affect water provinces. This was posted on Sunraybe's excellent site.

So if you play a water nation, I don't think your heat/cold scale will affect your home province or some of your first conquered provinces.

For some reason, Sunraybe indicates that Atlantis and Ry'leh tend to prefer a cold scale. But I think there are more cold-preferring nations than hot-preferring nations, so to hurt the other guy the most I might go with heat.

Water also has easy access to wolven winter, which I suppose you could use on your most important provinces to neutralize your heat scale if you wanted.

Of course I'm a newb...what do I really know?

apoger · #4 December 24th, 2003, 10:30 PM

>I have heard that heat and cold scale don't affect water provinces.

This was the case in Dom1 but seems to have been changed for Dom2.

SurvivalistMerc · #5 December 24th, 2003, 10:52 PM

I would love to know if it has changed or not.

I haven't played a water race with these scales. I guess you have and have observed the change in values as your dominion affects the province?

Gandalf Parker · #6 December 24th, 2003, 11:19 PM

Ive played with self-damaging dominion. It works best with nations like Pangaea, Man, Vanheim. The idea is to do hard battles outside of your domain then quickly push up the dominion. It can be effective if you use it to get major blessings and have blessable troops. You will have to be ready to defend your provinces by means other than melee troops.

aldin · #7 December 24th, 2003, 11:40 PM

*nods head*
Wolven Winter - exactly - I was thinking something that pushed the scale one way or the other. But I guess the early harm is pretty high.

It seems, though, that it might be an interesting balancing act to try with a low dominion, high bless effect, researching pretender. Gandalf, it sounds like you have had some sucess along those lines. Which nation has the cheapest sacred troops?

~Aldin