The General, Fast & Slow games (standard games) and Beginner & Ultra games are now DOUBLE TROUBLE mode.

Each player starts with 2 Castles and 1 Barracks in each Castle. The techs and incomes and costs are all still the same for now.

With 2 starting Castles, it means lots more to do in begin, and more choices to make in strategy & politics.
It also means 1/2 the required players per game which means much faster starting times.

Skirmish, LMS & Clan games still use the old 1-Castle system.

Whoah! Great news... but you can thus build (if you can find the resources for that) 6 barracks (3 barracks per "home" castle and then 1 extra every castle you take)? Or is it 4 Barracks, (2 barracks at the start and then per castle 1 extra barracks).

Just to make sure I understand...

btw income = 2000 gold?

I believe that it's :
4 Barracks, (2 barracks at the start and then 1 extra barracks per castle ). dunno about the income.

How's it going to work with clan members. Is it limited to only one member per clan?

It would seem that 2 members=4 castles which is over what the previous limit was, so I was just curious.

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card, shouldn't be a problem...just keep the limit of no more than 2 clan members per game. As SO many people are now in clans, restricting to only one member per clan may slow things down again. However, that's REQ's decision...same as now, REQ?

Last Edited : Wednesday, March 3, 2004 - 12:12

Req said that this will not be used for skirm, LMS nor clan games.

Last Edited : Wednesday, March 3, 2004 - 15:50

Lt,. you should know that Req calculated for people like you who can wipe a board clean with just 1 castle...

This does mean starting with 12 armies, which includes 4 comms right?
If that's the case, these games will get interesting.

Naaaw, about 50/50 there

it's ok req

Hmm. Game 15 just started for me, and I've got 4 barracks (2 in each castle). (you said that we'd have only one barracks in each castle).

Also, the starting troops (for the guy that asked) are 2 stacks of comms, 1 stack of spears, swords, scouts, and archers... PER CASTLE. So, I started with over 700 troops total.

Looks very interesting.
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Hey Req, firstly thanks for fixing the bug on my map (if you didnt thanks for talking to the God of Bugs on my behalf). Secondly..great new concept. Certainly makes the start of the game more interesting, and the idea of two castles I believe will allow a more strategic dimension to the game evolve. However does this mean we have lost the choice of starting units??

I just started game 74, It says I have 2 castles but I only can see 1. What gives?
Also, what happened to some of the games, 2 of the games I was playing just dropped from the playing board.

well its cool now cuz u have alot more space to look for enmies

I just went back in game 74 and my 2nd castle appeared. Thanks Jeannie.........lol

this will be good i hope

so is there meant to be no barbs in this version???

ya same here i dont see any unkown troops...........

if there are no Barbs and Rens...who am I going to take all my latent anger out on????