Caltrops - Mischief Maker's Maker's Mark - I'm finding it hard to ever lose after just my third game

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by FABIO 06/12/2008, 9:27pm PDT

Even times when I got bottlenecked for resources at the beginning. The computer just isn't aggressive enough. Most games are starting to look like this:

- Putt around the beginning starving for resources, but it's okay because I'm never going to get attacked beyond the odd recon or assassin unit.

- Will have a limited range while I'm waiting for a base card, but it's okay because I'll just capture a base a computer plays without sufficient forces to defend it.

- Save up for a stack of ultimate mech units, because their cost/benefit ratio blows everything else away. They're only 2-3 times the cost of a basic infantry unit, >12 times as powerful, the AP movement system makes it so that it costs less to move around a couple ultimate mechs than a full army of scrub light infantry, and the retreat system will ensure that mechs have nothing to fear from running while infantry will get mauled.

- Go around stomping AI players' HQs with my ultimate mech army without a scratch.

- Discover at some point that one of the AI players had a jaw dropping ridiculous army sitting at his base that could have wiped the floor with mine, but he just held it back the whole game.

- While the computer is busy doing nothing with his army, claim the rest of the map and use the flood of resources to develop tactics/weapons cards until I can crush the army at the last HQ.

Kind of hard to tell what changes to the manual the patch and expansion make since they're never documented anywhere. Cults of the Wasteland just adds another faction in the middle of the board somewhere?