Viable indy?

Shadow I · Post by **Shadow I** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:36 pm

can someone give me a basic run down of an indy strat? The food selling strat is incredibly boring. I saw a little guide up a while ago about an indier, but I can't find it anymore.

Post by **Freenhult** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:15 pm

http://frostnflame.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=1079

Thats what I use, with a little modifications of my own, it netted me around 500-600mil in one BFR game.

Post by **Ruddertail** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:30 am

That works. Variations on builds are also used, including 90% barracks, and using 30% camps when you sell, in order to boost your sell price. I'm not exactly sure that works here, though... Give it a try.

Also, I'd suggest that the most important thing is a good indy bonus, not a good Off. bonus, and hawks and def, you can forget about, normally.

Shadow I · Post by **Shadow I** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:47 am

alright, thanks for the ideas

I am getting incredibly low returns on troops. Can indy compete in any way with the farmers? Not that I care, I am going to indy anyways, but will I have to use a lot of agressive spy mission to stay in the running?

carbz · Post by **carbz** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:37 am

mate if your runnign indy, there is no way you will be able to compete with anyone runnign a mage strategy. Look at the 'spy' (mage) bonus for macedon compared to phoenician. It just isnt going to happen is it?

the key is to play to a races strangths.

Shadow I · Post by **Shadow I** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:09 pm

yes and macedon has a good indy and food bonus, so I should be good there.

carbz · Post by **carbz** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:37 pm

Shadow I wrote: yes and macedon has a good indy and food bonus, so I should be good there.

yes thast right, but you will always lose land to a mager. Also remember to put a patrol up, and store/sell wahtever you can on the market.

I also note your location is the near east, you have to be in Europe for the 20% production bonus. Also, i would try and build a minimum of farms, maybe get a friendly farmer to sell you cheap troops....

Death · Post by **Death** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:11 pm

95% Blacksmiths (Whatever they are here)
5% Farms
A random small amount of Mage Towers for a shield (Patrol?)

Sell sell sell, pretend you are a Vietnamese whore. This game has this neat little feature where once you sell on PM, it goes right to your bank, even if it overflows. Best part is there is no way to rob the banks in this game.

So yeah, easy money, safe money.

carbz · Post by **carbz** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:25 pm

oi emo basher, shout on the hsout box!

Death · Post by **Death** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:49 pm

Hahah, sorry I missed that one.

Shadow I · Post by **Shadow I** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:59 pm

is there any point to more dens? It would make food massers unable to use leaders on me, but is that even worth the tradeoff?

Post by **Ruddertail** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:46 pm

Not really, no. Especially not with all the spy players in the set right now.

Shadow I · Post by **Shadow I** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:47 pm

Eh, I moved to Europe and returns aren't too bad. Not as good as the food massing, but not bad either.

carbz · Post by **carbz** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:47 am

its worthwhile building dens later in the set when you are holding some troops, demolish them at the end of your run to create a decent ratio then everyone will fizzle on you.

ohmyjapan16 · Post by **ohmyjapan16** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:32 pm

If you're looking to win, I wouldn't go indy/spy. If you're just trying it out here, that's totally cool.

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