prettification
Chieftain
- Joined
- Jan 18, 2020
- Messages
- 29
Hi,
Regarding the game, I gave up not long after the last post because it was wrapped up and I could not bother with toiling towards the end (my first win on prince, if one can call it that).
Actually I did not really intend to come back, for a while at least. I wanted to try things by myself and to amass some experience alone. But in my current game I stumbled upon a really annoying wall.
Its 1867 AD (Saladin on Prince Pangaea again) and I spent the first 300 turns patiently and painstakingly conquering two neighbours, achieving the bulging size of a small half of the continent and planning on overwhelming the rest of the world with gigantic doom, ONLY to witness Budicca (orange) vassaling two neighbours (green and brown) after two small wars, matching with little effort the size of my 300 turns conquest (more like 150).
Its all the more grating since I intervened in one of her earlier war to expand her empire so as to fabricate a comfortable ally.
And now she nullifies my plan with what looks like an outright gimmick.
The clash of two giants seems unevitable, and I dont want that. There is just a painful grinding of a world war looming, whereas I toiled all game long to precisely avoid that, by getting bigger, in a RIGHTFULL way.
It shattered me and Im beginning to wonder if its actually worth to conquer for a long time. Maybe I should just aim for amassing vassals through short surgical wars. It really irks me to be forced into a one way gameplay because of the vassal system....
How do you deal with this "vassal problem"?
Regarding the game, I gave up not long after the last post because it was wrapped up and I could not bother with toiling towards the end (my first win on prince, if one can call it that).
Actually I did not really intend to come back, for a while at least. I wanted to try things by myself and to amass some experience alone. But in my current game I stumbled upon a really annoying wall.
Its 1867 AD (Saladin on Prince Pangaea again) and I spent the first 300 turns patiently and painstakingly conquering two neighbours, achieving the bulging size of a small half of the continent and planning on overwhelming the rest of the world with gigantic doom, ONLY to witness Budicca (orange) vassaling two neighbours (green and brown) after two small wars, matching with little effort the size of my 300 turns conquest (more like 150).
Its all the more grating since I intervened in one of her earlier war to expand her empire so as to fabricate a comfortable ally.
And now she nullifies my plan with what looks like an outright gimmick.
The clash of two giants seems unevitable, and I dont want that. There is just a painful grinding of a world war looming, whereas I toiled all game long to precisely avoid that, by getting bigger, in a RIGHTFULL way.
It shattered me and Im beginning to wonder if its actually worth to conquer for a long time. Maybe I should just aim for amassing vassals through short surgical wars. It really irks me to be forced into a one way gameplay because of the vassal system....
How do you deal with this "vassal problem"?
