Impressive, efficient evil

[Caidoz]

I was one of those players who, in BW1, poisoned the food and tossed green grain into Nemesis' Aztec town's storehouse. Let him megablast until the cows came home; the green grain is a death sentence.

I was generally evil when it came to disposing of inconveniences. If people asked for homes and their town wasn't strategically valuable, I'd cut them down until there were just enough homes for everyone left. I wasn't usually 100%, hyper-destructive evil, but it got the job done. In BW2, there are lots of towns, some important, some not, so I have more choices.

I can't stand using the military beyond a certain point. I mean that you work hard to get a populated city, then recruit all the men into the army and watch them either win or get stomped. So I prefer subtler techniques, most all of which involve doing the things a good god is supposed to do, mainly, building a nice city that can A) absorb any bad stuff that hits it and B) mount a huge endgame attack. It doesn't seem like the orthodox, evil thing to do, but it works.

If you act like me then once you get the volcano epic and now how to evilly charge it with maximum efficiency, the game is over. You can turtle in your base and take giant molten bites out of the enemy, then send in a platoon of 5 to take their base. I suppose it isn't very skillful, but we want the enemy dead with the most effectiveness and the least amount of effort. I'm glad BW2 let's me build a bigger city with evil structures and still be evil. The big Greek town, if you saved it like I did, in the last land of BOTGs looks gorgeous in a Quake 1 sort of way, when your evilness takes root.

Do you play evil in a similar style?

 

[Okapidragon]

It sounds like all their base are belong to you. :laugh2

I probably will, when I finally get BW2, because that's kind of what I do anyway. :rolleyes

 

[Angry_Kid101]

Hehehe, Thats not what I do. lol.
On land 3, I take all the towns over by impressiveness and welcome them into my town. Then take over all the empty towns. Dont give the empty towns any people or any attention what so ever. Just leave it. I then usually go play on my wii or watch tv or "take a dump (on a villagers head lol)" or whatever suits your fashion. Come back an hour or so later. MEGA EVIL with no effort (other than finding something to do lol) :devil

 

[anglosaxon]

im not usually evil, im just not very nice.

when migrants come, i send soldiers to massacre them (this is NOT evil, belive it or not.) i only let one inhabitant in (to carry all of the goods with him) and stick him in prison.
this way, i create a sort of cultural bubble by killing anyone who comes near me. i also go on regular raids by killing a few(dozen) of the inhabitants of neutral towns.
i did this with the third japanese land. i used the stronghold at the bottom of the hill (the one with walls and hills all around) as a base for my soldiers once the people had migrated, keeping out the creature and making the enemy die every time they walked past the town (i had archers).

so im evil, but it doesnt show.

 

[ch1m3r4]

Forum Necromancy!

I've actually completed the game at 100% evil, creature 100% evil, and obtained all my victories through impressiveness.

I'd reject all migrations unless I needed worshippers at an epic, and stack up my Skyscrapers, even if I didn't need them.

 

[anglosaxon]

i ended up becoming evil in the third japanese land beacuse of some stupid soldiers.

i started off at about 80% good. i spent my time building impressive structures, impressed a few villages, and then took all my men for a huge campaign against the neutral town in the centre of the land. since i had impressed them there were no people in the town.

i encountered some enemy troops and wiped them out, and took over the town after knocking down the walls with a catapult. i had made byself about 2.5% more evil now, so i sent my troops to the centre of the city and fortified the walls with them.

no problems there; except that my troops were using up all the food! i tried to get grain to refill the storehouse that they were munching from, but i wast quick enough. they used up about 10,000 food in a few minutes.

i left them, but in time i became evil because there was an empty storehouse that i was ignoring. i continued the game, and by the time i had finished the map i was about 30% evil, thanks to the earthquake epic.