Greetings fellow hotseaters and forum members,
I'm getting more and more time constrained as 20+ aged fellow.
Read: Exams, making attempts on girls (), ...
This is the main reason why I un-installed the last game on my personal computer, Medieval II TW.
This means that I'll neither remain as GS member, nor participate in any HS activity further.
I might visit the forum from time to time, but this will be mainly in the non-game related sections such as reading Lortano's or Ngugi's stories to pass time and boost/rep (mainly Ngugi's) ego.
Concerning HS... I feel that I'm playing the turns too methodically. Using knowledge to secure that there are no supprises anymore makes the games become dull and boring as it takes away any random-ness.
My best and first hotseat game was versus Nice and I hated the later turns direly. Every single turn we both played nearly perfectly and this made it such a long-winded trench war. I made good advancements, but very slowly and painfully. Check all woods, settlements for unrest due to spies, seas, movement wars for each square ...
The only thing that remains is the cross-turn metagame win race against equal players. In other words, who can seal-club the lesser players faster and who finds more original plans over 50 turns such as bribes, movement point increasing traits, smart economy, diplomacy against the better ones...
TL; DR: Thanks for the great community.
I hope my contributions have been as useful as yours to me.
Game On!
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PRACTICAL/
Since I trust Dux from the GS, I'll send him my admin passwords. I'll also send these to Matto.
Neither of the two persons are in any way responsible for those HS, they only keep the pass until a new admin is found.
NB: Ceterum censeo Nice-m delendam esse.