1st-turn City Rush

**Melbobaggins** · February 20, 2013, 12:25 PM

Greetings Shire-folk!

I was curious as to how many citiies can be taken within the first turn of the game. Since the rebels are not yet inside the city, you can use a general to simply..walk..into..the city.

I have discovered two cities that were ungaurded on turn one:

Rhun --> Kugavod. By using the general(Loke-Khan Borthand?) in Rhomen to rush Kugavod, it's a wonderful first step in the fights vs Dorwinion and in effect the Dwarves.

Gondor--> Barad Harn. The general in Linhir can take a boat to Barad Harn and steal it before Harad gets there. Often they will "siege" you but since it has a palisade wall, you can retreat and bring reinforcements. This is a HUGE first move for Gondor since it will take the battle to the enemy instead of fighting on home turf.

Some other "walk-in" cities I have found will take a few turns to get to:
Malgalad, Ammu Khand.

Has anyone else discovered first turn rushes or "walk-in" cities?

**Wizad** · February 20, 2013, 01:10 PM

It's for the AI expansion script.

The AI gets free settlements to make up for being, well, the AI. Players are way smarter than the AI at the moment, so the only way for the AI to keep up is to get special bonuses.

The AI gets free money every time it goes bankrupt.
The AI gets free settlements at the start of the game.
The AI gets free armies when it starts to lose.
The AI gets a population growth bonus.

The reason why these cities are empty is because the AI gets a free army next to the cities so they instantly have that city without needing to fight.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

The light regions are the regions the AI gets for free.

**Flinn** · February 20, 2013, 03:22 PM

are the dwarves the only ones who do not get any free region??

anyway, nice map

**Wizad** · February 20, 2013, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by Flinn

are the dwarves the only ones who do not get any free region??

anyway, nice map

It's not my map. The person who made it is Shingen or lolsuck, or someone else whose name I've forgotten.

**knight of meh** · February 20, 2013, 03:27 PM

do they not get withered heath?? i always thought they did...

**RuleBritannia** · February 20, 2013, 04:34 PM

Mordor for both the AI and player gets a free settlement too, Malgalad, which is 9 times out of 10 left entirely unguarded.

**Nastrael** · February 20, 2013, 10:07 PM

your map is wrong. you have the High Elves getting Minhiriath on the first turn instead of Allimir or the region just south of that...in fact theyre not even on the map >.>

**Youital** · February 22, 2013, 02:49 AM

no his map is correct

**Wizad** · February 22, 2013, 03:05 AM

What Nastrael said could be true. I don't have time to check it anytime soon though.
Maybe someone could tell me what exactly is wrong with the map and I can change it.

Notice that the map is also a bit old, at least 3.1 or older as Tharbad isn't split up.