Turn 250~300 singularity

[Tielby]

...Erebus script map generally gives not much of coast.

Might I recommend Erebus Continents? It's the only one I use anymore, what with human players having such a huge advantage over the AI in the use of navies.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

Um, do Balseraph Druids still have Chaos III?

Dunno, don't have druids. I went for the mele line with mimics and combined them with fireball + puppet mages and a masive FOL economy for 25+ pop cities.

Might I recommend Erebus Continents? It's the only one I use anymore, what with human players having such a huge advantage over the AI in the use of navies.

I would disagree.

Yes, the AI suck at naval invasions but the Erebus map script newer makes lands completely cut off from a land passage. And the AI has learned how to spam enough ships that making an invasion by sea is difficult at best.

In my last game Alexis had like 30 triremes guarding 5 coastal cities. I had to march my army by land.

But it's a matter of personal preference I guess.

 

[Irgy]

In my experience they tend to have those 30 triremes sitting in one city, which you can then sink in port on the first turn of the war.

 

[tylor]

AFAIK, all Erebus mapscripts have a lot of dividers, be it sea or peaks.
But if it's more sea and less peaks, then you have more targets for Octopus priests and more space for sea ports and more "Oversea trade" bonuses.

As for FOL economy, wouldn't elves be better for that by far? Ancient Forest town or Windmill is better than Ancient Forest lumbermill. Esus lets you have caster hero fast, which can have puppet-dominate fast, which lets you steal enemy army, instead of stealing that army's promotions.

 

[Tasunke]

Aye, Keelyn + Gibbon domination puppets ^_^