Hi,
While I have played around 40 hours, I still consider myself beginner in this amazing mod. My usual settings are epic as ideal speed, and big map.
So far I have played with: Grigori, as manual said.
Disabled all other victories except culture and conquest, so AI would not get them.
I sucked at game and heroes at least helped to get to middle game. Game level was 3. Still, I did not understand how powerful heroes can be with proper planning. Dropped when almost everybody piled on me.
I played as elves, to try out religion.
First time I died again, still building too much
Third time. Managed to play to the end, when game got too boring and quit.
Explored all technologies, built all wonders in late game.
As I used continents map, after killing all enemies on my continent noticed AI is not good with ships. That's why mainly quit.
Oh, Fellowship of leave make your cities healthy but non-elves can't sustain any economy under this one. Having no siege engines is bad, but I got three dudes from pact that helped. Learned how magic works more or less, even if I had 1 mage for every 20 or so troops.
Exciting game, with breaking point of Bannor who made Rally and Crusade on me. Tough tough tough fight, with demgogues running amok. I even lost one nice city. But then I unleashed power of trees, crushed invaders and took 3 cities. Then it came down to slow attrition warfare, but still was fun. Other battles on continent were just mop-ups. Interestingly enough, one AI asked to be vassal even without fights, so he survived.
Tried with Sidari, put on raging barbarians. Died.
Now I started again with Sidari, wanted to see their feature. Level 4 difficulty.
Permanent alliances on, twice amount of events on as I am sucker for cool events.
Pangea map, to prevent AI from being bad.
Endless warfare, even with me making countless warriors. Sheelba (Twice speed of unit making) declared war on me because I put my last city very close to them. I can see much more aggressive AI behaviour overall. Anyway, it again was tough fight, and enemy stack of Doom was approaching important city when by event I got adept. Ahhhh! Such salvation! Got "enchant blades" and all my warriors got +20% attack. Else it would have been restart, I guess.
So great thanks to modmakers. Tremendous work, and even more enjoyable than vanilla. Thanks. Questions in next post
While I have played around 40 hours, I still consider myself beginner in this amazing mod. My usual settings are epic as ideal speed, and big map.
So far I have played with: Grigori, as manual said.
Disabled all other victories except culture and conquest, so AI would not get them.
I sucked at game and heroes at least helped to get to middle game. Game level was 3. Still, I did not understand how powerful heroes can be with proper planning. Dropped when almost everybody piled on me.
I played as elves, to try out religion.
First time I died again, still building too much
Third time. Managed to play to the end, when game got too boring and quit.
Explored all technologies, built all wonders in late game.
As I used continents map, after killing all enemies on my continent noticed AI is not good with ships. That's why mainly quit.
Oh, Fellowship of leave make your cities healthy but non-elves can't sustain any economy under this one. Having no siege engines is bad, but I got three dudes from pact that helped. Learned how magic works more or less, even if I had 1 mage for every 20 or so troops.
Exciting game, with breaking point of Bannor who made Rally and Crusade on me. Tough tough tough fight, with demgogues running amok. I even lost one nice city. But then I unleashed power of trees, crushed invaders and took 3 cities. Then it came down to slow attrition warfare, but still was fun. Other battles on continent were just mop-ups. Interestingly enough, one AI asked to be vassal even without fights, so he survived.
Tried with Sidari, put on raging barbarians. Died.
Now I started again with Sidari, wanted to see their feature. Level 4 difficulty.
Permanent alliances on, twice amount of events on as I am sucker for cool events.
Pangea map, to prevent AI from being bad.
Endless warfare, even with me making countless warriors. Sheelba (Twice speed of unit making) declared war on me because I put my last city very close to them. I can see much more aggressive AI behaviour overall. Anyway, it again was tough fight, and enemy stack of Doom was approaching important city when by event I got adept. Ahhhh! Such salvation! Got "enchant blades" and all my warriors got +20% attack. Else it would have been restart, I guess.
So great thanks to modmakers. Tremendous work, and even more enjoyable than vanilla. Thanks. Questions in next post