Happy New Map! The Twelve Domains

[MirkManEA]

Squirtle, thank you for that insight. I've been playing mostly 12-domains and had mostly bad dice. Throwing myself against the neutrals in my domain has not been a successful strategy. I notice that those who wait a round or two to end up with around 9 dice tend to break out in rounds 3-4. I'm still learning more about this map, but paying the W-L price for it!

 

[herweezy]

I think all too often this maps ends up being who can get a set and turn it in fastest (down the stretch). This frustrates me.. is there anyway we could have a flat rate that is higher than the standard? Maybe 10-15? getting 60 troops late in the game is a gaurentee win (and takes away the advantage of dragons sometimes!)

I would like to see:
A) Dragons become a higher priority/incentive. and
B) games to be decided off playing smart not brute strength from reserves...

thoughts on this?

 

[Chilly]

See this discussion from March regarding different flat rates.

My takeaway from it was that there is already an option to configure the flat rates per map, but CentCom hasn't decided if that is a road they wish to travel.

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As an aside, I'm currently in a Dragon game in turn 36 with escalating reserves that is up to 160 armies per turn in. It does look like it might get wrapped up in a another 3 or 4 turns though. This map just lends itself to marathon style play.

 

[Shepherd]

I think all too often this maps ends up being who can get a set and turn it in fastest (down the stretch). This frustrates me.. is there anyway we could have a flat rate that is higher than the standard? Maybe 10-15? getting 60 troops late in the game is a gaurentee win (and takes away the advantage of dragons sometimes!)

I would like to see:
A) Dragons become a higher priority/incentive. and
B) games to be decided off playing smart not brute strength from reserves...

A) I'm not opposed to upping the Dragon value, or lowering the stack on the Tower to make it easier to take, though I'm not entirely sure it's currently broken. Let's discuss.

B) We currently have the ability to up the flat rate amount for a map. i think that doing so for this particular map would make a lot of sense, though it would certainly throw some folks off to begin with. I'll start the discussion with my fellow mapmakers. As for escalating games being decided by reserves, that's the nature of the beast regardless of the map, and it's a big part of the strategy.

 

[Cardinalsrule]

not currently broken!

As Shep said, there is strategy in escalate games, just as there is in flat rate games. You just have to adjust.....