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I wouldn't say it's a trap even for landlocked nations. You get +10% combat ability across the board, +5% discipline, and +0.5 army tradition growth (which is much more significant than it sounds). That's a substantial bonus to land combat. Combat ability and discipline are multiplicative with each other, and army tradition gives you better generals which is multiplicative with both. No other military idea group outside of mods gives that much overall boost to your combat effectiveness on a per-unit level. Yeah, it also includes three ideas that are exclusively naval, but so what? The benefits to land combat are good enough on their own. But regardless, as you point out, we're right next to what is essentially this world's Mediterranean Sea, so (assuming we don't stick exclusively to the mountains--I don't know what this particular nation's mission tree wants us to do) there'll be chances to use the naval bonuses as well.
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Dirk the Average posted:Fair enough. I just recall something from a very long time ago where issues with the AI effectively would cause it to just annihilate itself via attrition. To combat that, the maximum amount of attrition was capped. Granted, again, this was many, many years ago, so it's entirely possible that that's been cleaned up in the intervening expansions and versions. I'm glad to hear that the strategy works in Anbennar because it makes defensive play much more powerful for nations like dwarves that are themed around being more defensive. Yeah, they capped attrition at 5% per month years ago. That said, Kobolds have an increased max attrition cap. Dwarves might as well, not sure, but I know kobolds do.
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Poil posted:Are you telling me that freaking dwarves can't dig a dead snake back up? With all that technology and magic? Look, it's "Diggy diggy hole," not "Diggy diggy grave".
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JosefStalinator posted:The Ogres are fun because EVERYONE hates you and your goal is to convert everyone to an evil religion, and corrupt temples to become super power. But... the goddamn Command starts BORDERING you. It's a scary one. Bordering you and with missions involving subjugating or vassalizing you, at that. It definitely doesn't sound like an easy start.
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Eh, it almost has to be better than the Daxugos-specific disaster. That one's micromanagement hell and can utterly destroy your run if you don't read far enough ahead in the missions.
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Ogres in general are also pretty high on the monstrous scale. IIRC one of their tolerance events involves ogres in the army eating their fellow soldiers.
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Yeah, I usually see the Obsidian Legion end up as a minor power with a couple of holds at best. I've never seen them dominate in my own games, and they frequently either lose the initial war totally or get chipped away at by the other nearby powers. Honestly, I've only ever seen mega-empires form a couple of times, and those usually from one of the main Bulwari players. Cannor, the Serpentspine, and Haless seem pretty self-balancing in the hands of the AI. Haless does get blobby, but it's multiple mid-sized blobs instead of one spanning the whole continent.
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SirPhoebos posted:Is there a start that's well suited for larping as Skeletor? Chaingrasper in the southern Serpentspine Mountains near Haless.
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