wolfpack0530 wrote:I see both sides on this one, but I also notice a side of conquer club that tries to be realistic in a sense. Obviously exponential growth is not realisitcally possible in army building, but is there a way to temper this in larger games...
In times of old, exponential army building was the very crux of determining the offset of battle. Back before nationalized pride of nations occured, (Take the greeks for instance) they fought as seperate states bickering amongst themselves. While an entire nation onto themselves, they were more locally focussed, each city and state had its own army and they were often at more war with each other than any 1 enemy.
The best way to describe this "exponential growth" factor is the "Agamemnon Solution". I call it that simply because in the movie "TROY" you see the battle take place.
The terms set by Agamemnon are very similar to those of old. His army meets an opposing force, now... in terms of battle, they should fight, both armies should incur losses, and the winning army should advance. Agamemnon's army grew exponentially. He never actually used his army for much. He proposed 1-man face-offs in which if 1 man won, the entire battle was conceeded to "his" armies side and Agamemnon would have the loyalty of the entire army he would have otherwise had to fight and kill.
Arriving in troy, he offered terms before even asking for a fight, he agreed to leave if Troy agreed to submit to his authority as an army. They refused and his army had to fight.
Exponential growth was truly realistic back then and it was a great way to solidify one's battle portfolio.
This is how I see Esc games. When you eliminate someone, you've taken command of their remaining troops. The troops that survive as part of your battle and "surrender" are then yours to command (as per Agamemnon's deal propositions, such a coalition against Troy would have been impossible if all the city states had to fight each other time and time again to determine who the most powerful was, then even the most powerful would have been so weakened in proving its power that Troy would have crushed it, Agamemnon treated his opponents like his own men until he absolutely had to kill them. Otherwise he considered killing an opposing army to be killing a potential extension of his own army.)
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