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[/U]Another interesting question: when is Manticores planned to arrive? If it's right after all these other players, I suspect it will be too difficult to handle.[/QUOTE]
Generally, I found one strategy that helped me a lot with the gray player, especially in the late game. Since the gray player can see your army on the starting location, they will try to accumulate overwhelming forces. I deliberately avoided buying units for a while and/or when I returned from the Necropolis to my home base; in short, I didn't kill the gray player, but instead pushed all their heroes either to the northwest or northeast (depending on which castles you don't need). If you're lucky, you can also push 1-2 green players there, let them take 2 castles, but since the GRAY player has a limited number of heroes, they will stay on your location until the end of the game, and all their numerous castles will have growth but no redemption and no heroes! You can also visit once or twice a month at the end of the week and buy the accumulated growth there (so surrendering castles is "conditional" because you can buy the growth if no enemy hero is stationed there). So, for me, it seemed better to give them any northern location but get rid of the gray player's attacks to avoid losing my army. And to harass the green players, you need to upgrade a couple of horses with logistics and pathfinding and resistance – they can scare away 1-2 weeks' worth of green player's growth with their main army. You can also build a chain of locations and dismiss/buy back the main hero for an attack, and the main hero can stand with 3 dragonflies as bait, and then receive the army in a chain and attack the green player. There are many strategies, but they all relate only to the late game; you still need to somehow deal with the first wave.
[/U]Another interesting question: when is Manticores planned to arrive? If it's right after all these other players, I suspect it will be too difficult to handle.[/QUOTE]
Generally, I found one strategy that helped me a lot with the gray player, especially in the late game. Since the gray player can see your army on the starting location, they will try to accumulate overwhelming forces. I deliberately avoided buying units for a while and/or when I returned from the Necropolis to my home base; in short, I didn't kill the gray player, but instead pushed all their heroes either to the northwest or northeast (depending on which castles you don't need). If you're lucky, you can also push 1-2 green players there, let them take 2 castles, but since the GRAY player has a limited number of heroes, they will stay on your location until the end of the game, and all their numerous castles will have growth but no redemption and no heroes! You can also visit once or twice a month at the end of the week and buy the accumulated growth there (so surrendering castles is "conditional" because you can buy the growth if no enemy hero is stationed there). So, for me, it seemed better to give them any northern location but get rid of the gray player's attacks to avoid losing my army. And to harass the green players, you need to upgrade a couple of horses with logistics and pathfinding and resistance – they can scare away 1-2 weeks' worth of green player's growth with their main army. You can also build a chain of locations and dismiss/buy back the main hero for an attack, and the main hero can stand with 3 dragonflies as bait, and then receive the army in a chain and attack the green player. There are many strategies, but they all relate only to the late game; you still need to somehow deal with the first wave.
