A couple of weird things have happened to me in my most recent game:
Firstly, I had used the worldbuilder to chuck in a load of superpromoted barbarian frigates (just to spice things up a little) at the beginning of the game. As expected, these were soon making a nuisance of themselves destroying galleys and plundering fishing boats (etc.).
Frustrated with the repeated loss of my precious food, I sent out a galley to attack a slightly wounded barbarian ship, hoping perhaps to wound it a little more. The odds of victory were 0.00%, although the frigate was at 70/100hp. But (and I bet you know what's coming here...) not only did my galley triumph, but it did so without getting injured, and instantly went from 0xp to 10xp (which, conveniently, allowed me to build the HE
).
Can anyone explain this kind of
? Is it because they were barbarians?
Secondly, having sent some scouts to the new world, I was happily hoovering up the huts, getting gold, xp, maps and units as you would expect. However, one of the huts I popped gave me Astronomy! Now, in any other situation this would have been a massive stroke of luck, but I had only recently built the colossus, and had been planning to hold off on obseleting it until I had filled in a lot of the techs I'd bypassed to get a quick Optics. The total cost to my largely water-based economy of this unplanned discovery was something like 100cpt, about 1/3 of my total income
. What is really weird is that there were loads of earlier, cheaper techs that I could have popped instead (Literature, Drama etc.). What the hell is that about?
Firstly, I had used the worldbuilder to chuck in a load of superpromoted barbarian frigates (just to spice things up a little) at the beginning of the game. As expected, these were soon making a nuisance of themselves destroying galleys and plundering fishing boats (etc.).
Frustrated with the repeated loss of my precious food, I sent out a galley to attack a slightly wounded barbarian ship, hoping perhaps to wound it a little more. The odds of victory were 0.00%, although the frigate was at 70/100hp. But (and I bet you know what's coming here...) not only did my galley triumph, but it did so without getting injured, and instantly went from 0xp to 10xp (which, conveniently, allowed me to build the HE
). Can anyone explain this kind of
? Is it because they were barbarians?Secondly, having sent some scouts to the new world, I was happily hoovering up the huts, getting gold, xp, maps and units as you would expect. However, one of the huts I popped gave me Astronomy! Now, in any other situation this would have been a massive stroke of luck, but I had only recently built the colossus, and had been planning to hold off on obseleting it until I had filled in a lot of the techs I'd bypassed to get a quick Optics. The total cost to my largely water-based economy of this unplanned discovery was something like 100cpt, about 1/3 of my total income
. What is really weird is that there were loads of earlier, cheaper techs that I could have popped instead (Literature, Drama etc.). What the hell is that about?
.
).
. Have any of you ever picked up more than 10xp from a single fight, though?
