Enchanted Forests is terrifying

[Vlad_1492]

Experimenting on a large low-magic map. Set gold and whatnot to 50%, sites to 0, independents to max strength. Sadly, the AI doesn't seem able to deal and has barely expanded.

Got to the top of the Conjuration research and cast Enchanted Forests
A few turns later, my province list has exploded. Dozens at a time are captured. Combined that with a few other passive kill-your-enemy globals, even getting close to my borders is a harrowing experience.

No particular question, just observing some of the intereresting end-game things we can do.

[Mormacil]

Yup there some pretty nasty globals in the game.

[meglobob1]

Originally posted by Mormacil:

Yup there some pretty nasty globals in the game.

And you can have 9 of them now...happy days!

[Vlad_1492]

This time around the game was over an hour in, but playing around is interesting.

Parked my Pretender out of the way, spamming Empower.
Strands of Power keeps finding me more gem sources, though rarely. Seems setting sites to 0 doesn't remove them entirely.

I can't quite tell how this one works. It seems that provicnces get searched with roughly 1/3rd my Pretender's skill in that area. But it is kind of random, sometimes no search at all is reported, sometimes 1-4 points worth.

Meanwhile I chuckle as Vengeful Water, the Wrath of God, and the Wild Hunt keep me entertained.

[Mormacil]

Originally posted by meglobob1:

Originally posted by Mormacil:

Yup there some pretty nasty globals in the game.

And you can have 9 of them now...happy days!

Wrath of God + Foul Air + Dark Skies + Burden of Times. Now that were good times.