standard pangenea : usefulness of maenards ? or rely on blood ?

[Nappa]

I've been very succesful with +3 turmiol and luck. I use a rainbow pheonix and build a powerful gem economy.

Rely on summoned casters which you have access to many. You need to find a good research indy though.

I use pans in strategic places with centaurs ferrying maenads to the front line. My #1 research priority is mass protection.

Tons of maenads with barkskin followd by Vine ogres also with barkskin and it's silly how fast you can expand.

I'm typically building other gem based armies during this time.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Boron:
a small drawback from the cross breed spell is that if you are unlucky you only get 20 foul spawns and most of them cost even 0.67 upkeep so almost the same as a revelrer but are worse fighters .

That's 0.067 upkeep for most of them I believe, not 0.67.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Nappa:
I've been very succesful with +3 turmiol and luck. I use a rainbow pheonix and build a powerful gem economy.

A rainbow *PHOENIX*? With 80 point paths? Either your definition of "rainbow" differs, or your scales really bite. How do you afford this?

[Nappa]

4f/3a/4w/4s

6 dominion
3turmoil/1heat/3luck

you get death line from lamia queen, earth, nature and blood from pans.

I'm forgetting which fort but I believe it's the 40 point one.

[ July 06, 2004, 00:51: Message edited by: Nappa ]

[Gandalf Parker]

Sometimes I will push blood. There is another tactic I dearly love. A Pandemoniac Assassin using the Hellbind Heart spell. Bind/Bind/attack. Vry often the bind will work and the commander is now yours. Right after the assassin message is a combat message where the new convert attacks everyone in the province. If he is the Last commander you get to watch what WAS his army rout from him.

Im more of a role player than a strategy-to-win. And I mostly play solo rather than multiplayer. So I like using Lord of the Hunt (consider this: a godly assassin who throws maenads). I also like Manticore if Im going for scales. He is handy for quick deliveries of equip, gems, harpies. And he works well with my hopscotch way of conquering provinces when I play Pangaea. Carrion Dragon has alot going for it also even if you arent playing Carrion theme. +10 fear, good hit points, and the alternate form has alot going for it. Even better with Carrion theme since if you magic it correctly you can prduce carrion commanders without having to purchase a Pandemoniac

[chrispedersen]

I go the other way...

Quite!

Turmoil 3,
Luck 1
Drain 1-2
Growth 3

High Dominion. I will generally go sloth 3 as well.

The High growth helps to recover your income a bit, with a good dominion, it boosts food in surrounding terrains.

With Max taxes, I can generally build a Pan a turn - since I'm building so many, research is fine even with the drain.

600-700 naked girls a turn.. whats not to like?

[Boron]

Originally posted by chrispedersen:
I go the other way...

Quite!

Turmoil 3,
Luck 1
Drain 1-2
Growth 3

High Dominion. I will generally go sloth 3 as well.

The High growth helps to recover your income a bit, with a good dominion, it boosts food in surrounding terrains.

With Max taxes, I can generally build a Pan a turn - since I'm building so many, research is fine even with the drain.

600-700 naked girls a turn.. whats not to like?

hmmmmmmmm max taxes .
in the manual addenda stands you get -0,3 % pop per 10% tax above 100% . + it should increase unrest .
but i don't know if it is totally correct . so i will try it

what do you do to limit the supplyproblem ?
if the maenads were need not eat they would be really nice . you seem to have expierience with massmaenads
so a question :
if you have more maenads than supply and other troops too in the area which ones do starve first ?
only the maenads or perhaps your valueable summons ?