Uncle_Joe
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If I unleashed the army I could score points quickly. quote:
Well it is Apr 1802. Russia is in 3rd place. I think this says it all. You are pursuing an economic strategy. You are, by all rights, swamping the AI opponents in sheer econ. Yet you are in 3rd place. As you stated (and I agree), if you unleashed the army, you could crank in glory. I submit that had you done so more or less from the get-go rather than trying to invest in the econ that you could easily be in first place, not third. The resources you spent bettering your econ could easily have translated to more glory through conquest. Also, not to disparage your accomplishments in the game, but the getting ahead of the AI by using 'x' strategy does not mean that it is a good strategy. I think in most games, a good human player can beat whatever AI using almost any strategy unless the AI is given some pretty healthy bonuses. What difficulty level are you playing on? Again, I'm not trying to say that its impossible to grow your econ...obviously its not. But the cost for doing so (resources and opportunity) are better spent on military units, upgrades, and campaigns if you want to earn glory. The point is the same as its been all thread long...the cost for investing in the econ is not commeasurate with the pay-off in most cases.
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