So I'm prepping to start my first game of FF as a hotseat with my friend who has been badgering me since his first game of FFH2 that we had to try a team game as Hyborem and Basium allied. So we were both delighted to learn that the custom options here allows you to start a game as either, making setting up this ideal situation far simpler than we previously thought.
So my questions relate to how the mechanics of infernals and mercurians work when starting the game as them.
What do you gain access to once establishing yourself with their particular normal entrance to the world requirements like Infernal Pact?
Can other civilizations beat the mercurians to the Mercurian Gate? If so, what occurs? If not, does this mean mercurians must build the gate themselves and can take their time doing it?
Is there any problems I haven't foreseen that would prevent this type of custom game hotseat with infernals and mercurians on a team against other AI teams of 2?
Hope to hear from the FF veterans so I can learn from your experience and save time and possible frustration on our part.
So my questions relate to how the mechanics of infernals and mercurians work when starting the game as them.
What do you gain access to once establishing yourself with their particular normal entrance to the world requirements like Infernal Pact?
Can other civilizations beat the mercurians to the Mercurian Gate? If so, what occurs? If not, does this mean mercurians must build the gate themselves and can take their time doing it?
Is there any problems I haven't foreseen that would prevent this type of custom game hotseat with infernals and mercurians on a team against other AI teams of 2?
Hope to hear from the FF veterans so I can learn from your experience and save time and possible frustration on our part.
I used him to take out the Balsaraph, who had a sizable army of freaks (mind you, I only had Basium and Valin Phanuel [I got order, and used him to defend]). I didn't destroy anyone else till I got my first angel. After I got my first one, they rolled in (I founded order before any other religion, making most of the world good), and my war machine started. The iron supplied angels made short work of the civilizations next to me, and it was pretty much a mop up after that, until at the very edge of civilization, the remaining civ's had become technologicly advanced enough to make champions, who were also supplied with iron. The remaining civ's were in despair. They knew that every unit of theirs that died, I got it back, keeping the experience that the unit gained from killing the very thing it had become. Still, their combined efforts managed to keep them alive, until I finally got Basium to the front (he was on the other side of the world freeing Bright[who I also used]). Basium crushed their puny opposition (being alive for the whole game, and being perpetually at war has its benifits[level 21, halla!]). Soo yeah. Its fun. 
