Advice for my game...

[Boney]

Originally posted by Maquiladora
You can stack Slavers with an army and if that army wins any battle a slave will go to your closest city. Or you can just use Slavers on their own to "Slave Raid" cities, but this isnt as good because it can fail if the city has a city wall especially and the slaver will die.

one slaver in an army ensures that one your cities will increase in population every time you win a battle. In some mods you have to have slavemasters though.

Some people like to have a couple of small armies designed specifically to go after barbs and incrrease popultion quickly. It is also useful to have slavers in border cities so that you can see when other slavers are coming to attack you, 'cos they can see all units. Slavers are also good to use as sentries watching for attack.

[MrBaggins]

Slaving = big time cheese tactic.

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by Boney
Some people like to have a couple of small armies designed specifically to go after barbs and incrrease popultion quickly. It is also useful to have slaves in border cities so that you can see when other slaves are coming to attack you, 'cos they can see all units. Slaves are also good to use as sentries watching for attack.

I hope you mean slavers and not slaves Boney, or do you consider slaves as a plague who are spreading around and around like zombies?

-Martin

[MrBaggins]

/me laughs, and almost falls off his chair

[Maquiladora]

double postage.

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by MrBaggins
Slaving = big time cheese tactic.

so true....

In MP i saw someone once let one of their own cities get captured by barbs and they then sat 3 stacks with a slaver in each around the barb city and killed a barb every couple of turns that barb city produced a warrior. I wont play with slavers in MP anymore.

[hexagonian]

Originally posted by Maquiladora
so true....

In MP i saw someone once let one of their own cities get captured by barbs and they then sat 3 stacks with a slaver in each around the barb city and killed a barb every couple of turns that barb city produced a warrior. I wont play with slavers in MP anymore.

That is just sooooo evil

[MrBaggins]

I actually considered suggesting that slaving be reduced two ways...

First by removing all barbarian slaving. Its cheesy. (basis: they always fight to the death)

Second by instituting a (hidden to the player) points system for slavery... I.E. if you capture a one stack.. you get one "slave point"... a 12-stack, 12 "slave points"

Maybe allow razing of cities, and the city size goes to points.

Then, have a (modifiable.. by government perhaps) value required to gain a slave... like... say.. 6 points. Every 6 "slave points" you get... a slave is generated in your empire.