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Originally Posted by Kobal2
Hopefully by then you've used these gems and troops to spam mentors and seize someone else's income respectively.
It's essentially the same gambit as bloodhunting at 100% taxes with patrols or tanking your scales for a ridiculous bless : you're basically killing your long term self for more immediate power.
Either it works and you end up with a much more powerful position than you could ever have by playing more conservatively ( and immediately get dogpiled), or it fizzles out and you end up super dead.
Either way, it's quick  . |
At 90 gems it is not quick for LA Pangaea. At 90 nature gems it is retarded for LA Pan; just because it is equally retarded in vanilla game doesn't make it less retarded in CBM
At 50 gems it was too good for EA and MA Pans. For LA Pan I didn't get it up even at that price, much better to get Mother Oak up and use Carrion commanders to summon the troops. As LA Pan you desperately *need* gold income, the same gold income CW destroys.
If you use 50 nature gems to get Mother Oak up and spend 40 gems to summon carrion commanders, you will end up with more gems than CW, an economy that is not ruined *and* practically same number of carrion troops because the commanders will start reanimating ~20 turns earlier than you'd get CW up (altough with reanimating you just better manikins; you'll be reanimating the carrions in forest temples, so you will get a much better ratio of the good ones). Of course Mother Oak is one of those spells somebody else wants too, so it would make sense even to use all those 90 nature gems on carrion commanders.
I guess you can blame me for the heavy nerf CW saw in CBM1.7 (and still in CBM1.8). I was QM's neighbour in a MP game, and I took massive advantage of CW. That was MA, and CW deserved to be nerfed in MA EA. Sadly EA and MA Pangaea still can (ab)use CW (just not so ridiculously easily), but LA Pangaea got absolutely screwed.