Slitherine

GiveWarAchance wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 1:26 am Maybe more turns in MP games will help because then an aggressive player could do more elaborate flanking operations against a camper while ranged units have more time to peck at the enemy units. When opponents move to the extreme corner to hide there, it takes a lot of turns for me to move all the way there, so they can exploit the limited turns to get a draw even against an honest player. More turns would downgrade that exploit and also punish people with more boredom if they are waiting out games for draws.

I think the turns to nightfall make sense in the vast majority of cases. I wouldn´t want to endlessly drag out games that are legitimately drawish.

SnuggleBunnies wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 2:31 am So I play exclusively MP, over a hundred matches a year, and I have to say the *vast majority* of my experiences are positive - nice players, interesting matches. I also just find playing the AI to be boring, as there's no variety in its 'style', but that is of course purely a personal preference thing. I wouldn't let a few bad apples ruin the experience.

Agree about mostly good experiences with players on the Slytherine forum. AI is perhaps a bit sluggish at times, but I must admit I feel sufficiently challenged at Governor difficulty in the historical campaigns and even in random battles.

GiveWarAchance wrote: ↑Sun Oct 16, 2022 9:00 pm I only tried MP briefly. Single player is so much better.

A consistent problem with MP is nobody plays an honest game. They always need the strongest factions and then rush to the best terrain and camp there like hills behind a river. So I am left with a choice: try to fight the strongest faction fortified on the best terrain and lose, or wait out the turns and get a boring draw. Losers can cheese the game to get cheap wins and draws, but this is not gaming. It is boring and frustrating not fun like games ought to be. So I quit MP after a bunch of players repeated this scam on me.

Once you play quite a few games, you realize that camping on a hill or in better terrain can be a detriment instead of an advantage. I've played quite a few games where the other side tried camping out and forcing me to recklessly attack them and lose; instead it gives you the advantage of positioning your army well and attacking one weak spot, forcing the rest of his army to come down out of position and not ready at all. Having lots of lights and/or missile units is great as the other side cannot just sit there and lose men until auto-break.

It's quite fun winning in a game like this, and does challenge you. I understand it might be annoying, especially to a new guy, if most did this, but once someone loses that way, they should change strategies.^^
Aetius

sounds good Aetius. You give me hope for MP if I return to it someday.

I like doing the campaigns for single player like the historical ones and the custom ones are good too. It is hard sometimes and I lose some battles so I feel it is enough challenge for me. I like the sandbox for trying out armies and I try to make them historical. I like how the campaigns continue unlike the one-shot MP games so I feel more interested in my army and try not to get it slaughtered with sloppy moves. Some are very hard cause the enemy army is stronger or I have limited units like the Hannibal campaign is hard and the worst was the first mission in the crusader campaign in Medieval Fog cause it is peasants versus a proper Arab army so I can't win that battle which is the historical result too.