by Itrade on Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:45 pm
My favorite country varies on which continent I'm holding. My favorite continent is Europe because you can hassle africa, america and asia when you hold it, and Oceania and South America are small fish anyway (Although south america is only two countries away).
Normally, however, I take Australia. It's out of the way so no-one will attack you (Unless they want your cards). The disadvantage is that people can get powerful since you can't thwart them easily. I counter this by telling the powerful people the best way to get continents, then killing off the former owner of said continents (This works because it is true that that's the easiest way to get continents and will help them in the short term. Everyone's got a country in asia that's easy to reach but no one cares about to kill for territory (Think irkutsk and japan)) then taking their cards and starting a chain reaction.
In the Asia map, my favorite country is Maratha because if you want to stop and take sri lanka and that other place, you've got to send in a small detachment. Too much people in the detachment and you will have too little to carry out the rest of your strategy with, too few and you might not get the countries at all.
My set is a bone coat-of-arms and chandelier! How cool is that?