cairnswk wrote:Congrats DiM...this game has put the ranking point accumulation abilities way out of whack.
On a speed game...1 player conquers 4 castles and all the associated resources pairs, and gets 150 odd additional armies to blitz someone with.
Then conquers the Sanctuary, and gets 131 game points when wins the game. (yes i lost the game, but this is not sour grapes, just i see it as out of kilter)
As in V1 of this....Blacksmith is too far away from castle compared to other resource pairs and makes for uneven gameplay.
Good graphics though and i like the ice in the middle to cut of the ports.
But rankings are going to go way out of kilter when everyone learns how to play this one.

out of curiosity i searched that game.
if in a 5 player game you allow a person to get 4 out of 6 castles plus all resources then it's only natural he should win. it's not about whack gameplay but about the fact that nobody tried to stop him.
oh and blacksmith might seem too far away but in fact you have to conquer less armies to get it then the number of armies another castle with closer resources has to conquer.
for example aoria has the resources really close. it needs to take 3 terits with 14 troops. a 6 a 5 and a 3
yes ghyr has to take 5 terits to get the resource pair but those 5 terits mean just 12 troops. 3,2,4,1,2
roughly the same thing so no imbalance there mate.
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