Azimuth11 wrote:Is there any sort of strategy guide to this game? Its simple enough to know how to play but the AI always beats me, so are there any tips/tricks out there?
At the start of the game, even if you don't have armies frozen on first turn, wait 1 turn before recruiting any units so you have the money to totally kit them out, then on turn 2 make a full army in your capital. Equipping your starting army with advanced weapons and focus firing down units in the enemy army will generally win you your first battle. Keep your army together, stay just out of range, and get a pre-emptive attack on their frontline with your whole army and you basically start out with a numbers advantage. From there just keep focus firing down targets, usually prioritizing ones with the best Damage : HP ratio, and try and retreat your injured units away from the fight to preserve them. If you have auto surrender on you can often keep injured units alive by voring enemy units and making your own too big to vore, though that's somewhat race dependent. Follow these steps and you'll generally win your first battle with minimal casualties, and some good level ups on your army, at which point its basically over for whoever you just fought. Go after their villages, being a little careful of the capital if you don't feel strong enough to take it, for more easy exp and income, and make sure to keep your army at max size. Since you have the level advantage you'll be much stronger, and following the same tactics as your first battle to minimize casualties will often mean you just won't lose any more units at this point. Your army will keep leveling up and soon be largely unstoppable. It's also fine to give your leader the lion's share of prey early since leadership is a really good stat to get leveled up, especially with auto-leadership enabled.
Once you've got enough money to roll out another army follow the same steps as before and go after another neighbor, but this time pay attention to if they've won any battles and how strong their army is. Your new army won't have a leader and will be weaker, but your superior tactics will usually let you win into a mostly evenly matched enemy force. However, if you think the enemy is too strong for you, you can usually bait them. Sit your army on a village the enemy army is gunning for where you have fully garrisoned it (make sure your garrison is using advanced weapons. You can hold off on buying weapons to garrison a town until its actually in danger of being attacked and use the money on more important things before). The enemy will usually attack anyways and be destroyed by your overwhelming numbers, even if your army isn't anywhere near max size. You can also use this trick to defend villages you don't have an army near: just recruit and equip a few units before they get there and use those + the garrison to overwhelm with numbers.
If you have spare money and don't feel like you need more armies immediately Mills are a good investment. A mill in a high happiness village will pay for itself relatively quickly, and is the best building for getting your income up. With a few mills up, your neighbors villages under your control, and high leveled armies you'll become basically unstoppable. You can start going to mercenary villages to get stronger units and make buffer armies if you want, but at this point the world is really your oyster. Vore War is super snowbally and once you've taken enough wins in the early game the world is your oyster, at least when playing with mostly default settings.
by unkn0wn » Sat May 18, 2024 5:53 pm 
