{"id":47,"date":"2019-01-07T19:49:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T18:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magmadev.com\/perso\/dominions-maddeningmayhem\/?p=47"},"modified":"2021-11-27T18:34:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T17:34:19","slug":"early-expansion-t1-to-t13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.magmadev.com\/perso\/dominions-maddeningmayhem\/early-expansion-t1-to-t13\/","title":{"rendered":"Early expansion (T1 to T13)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In order to get my research goals as soon as possible, the plan was to pump 1 research mage per turn and keep them on research until I could summon dragons.<\/p>\n

For early expansion, this meant that I couldn’t recruit normal commanders, and would rely only on independent ones to lead the troops (apart from the very first commander, which became also my prophet).<\/p>\n

Also, I needed to build a fort with a lab as soon as possible, and for that I needed the gold. That meant that I wouldn’t have much more than 1 expansion party for several turns, lacking the commanders and the troops.<\/p>\n

However, the first scout of Dragenheim is also an assassin and I so sent him to try to get a few provinces by himself through assassination.<\/p>\n

The first conquests went rather well and by turn 4 I took a high value province with a lot of gold income. And just next to it, what I couldn’t even dream of : a crystal sorceress province ! My decision was quickly taken to capture it and build my first fort and lab on it. Indeed, not only the sorceresses would help me to research the dragon spell, but I also planned to use them in battles later in the game. If you read my other AAR on Helheim, I had a very bad experience with a thunderstrike communion and it was my opportunity to do that myself.<\/p>\n

So on turn 5 I built the Lab and on turn 6 started to build the Fort, and then only on turn 7 started to recruit new troops for a new expansion party.<\/p>\n

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That same turn, I also met my 3 direct neighbours : Ochreil on the North West, Ermor on the West and Abolethive in the East. I quickly managed to share the land with Abolethive. Also, before the game began I knew that Ermor was one of my worst possible enemy : all his troops have high cold resistance and as such are impervious to the breath attacks and dragons. I knew these attacks would contribute in a large part to the efficiency of my strategy, so I didn’t want to let them live for too long.<\/p>\n

As a result, I immediately made a defensive pact with Ochreil : if one of us was ever attacked by Ermor, we would help one each other.<\/p>\n

Then on turn 8 I lost both my assassin and my first expansion party (though the prophet survived) and slowly crawled to keep on having a 1 province per turn expansion. As such, on turn 12 I managed to get 9 provinces aside from my capital. A pretty bad expansion, but I expected it : if I wanted to get my dragons ASAP, I had to sacrifice my early expansion and that’s exactly what happened.<\/p>\n

However, my economy was decent enough and I could gather an army with some of my sacreds which are monsters. I could then take and claim the Throne of Fortune as soon as turn 13. Just in time to give it as a present to Metahedron that had awokened …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In order to get my research goals as soon as possible, the plan was to pump 1 research mage per turn and keep them on research until I could summon dragons. For early expansion, this meant that I couldn’t recruit normal commanders, and would rely only on independent ones to lead the troops (apart from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magmadev.com\/perso\/dominions-maddeningmayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magmadev.com\/perso\/dominions-maddeningmayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magmadev.com\/perso\/dominions-maddeningmayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magmadev.com\/perso\/dominions-maddeningmayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magmadev.com\/perso\/dominions-maddeningmayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.magmadev.com\/perso\/dominions-maddeningmayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"http:\/\/www.magmadev.com\/perso\/dominions-maddeningmayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magmadev.com\/perso\/dominions-maddeningmayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magmadev.com\/perso\/dominions-maddeningmayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magmadev.com\/perso\/dominions-maddeningmayhem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}