Building a Better Pretender

[Boron]

rylen said:
I'm sure this has been done to death before. Finding the thread though, that's tough.

I'm intrested in general discussion of the pretender chasis, setting the scales, and custom equiping. I'm really intrested in, how to use an immobile pretender.

Boron, I hope you or another strategy guide person will include some info on this.

What about the various humans? I've used the Sorceres occasionally for a cheap rainbow w/ added pearls. The sage makes sense for quick research. I've tried the druid to generate Vine stuff in SP but find, if he just hangs around, he's worth more as research. Has there been a discussion of these folks?

The discussion of special pretenders at: http://www.freewebs.com/dominions2/ in the guides, is great. I'm looking for that w/ normal pretenders.

Rylen

wow 2 days almost away and so much action on the board

@rylen my pretender guide is about 2/3 finished .

my favourite pretenders at the moment are :
-for blessing i find the f9 bless most useful because it is good and you get it so cheap with the moloch
with fire darts + some troops to prevent rout he can kill indies quite well too

-as ulm the master alchemist he is the best rainbow (doubled benefits from alchemy) and ulm can afford . with all other nations i take rainbows only in sp

-vq in lots of variations she is still a very good sc and you don't need to care if she dies
midgame she becomes forger/caster ...

-pod as a cheaper but not immortal sc .



someone mentioned the scorpionking before : if you give him earth 4 + fire 4 and search with him e.g. as abysia it will boost your earlygame income great
for this he is the cheapest pretender + he is ok as sc .

imo mainly though a cheap pretender for early money advantage + lots of scales .

[Evil Dave]

Boron said:
-for blessing i find the f9 bless most useful

To fill in a little more detail: F9 is a triple-threat blessing. It makes sacred troops impressively powerful in combat, it gets you an SC pretender, and it helps build up your economy.

I've found that an E9 cyclops gets similar, tho not as stunning, effects. E9 also benefits sacred mages (and mages with Shrouds of the Battle Saint) with a little armor and reinvigoration.

[Demosthenes]

Abysia with a F9/E9 Scorpion King and horrible scales, going for a Lava Warrior Bless strategy until you get the Blood and Devils flowing is pretty sweet too.

I would even lead my early army with the SK if possible. F9/E9 Magma Bolts is freakin horrible.

[Evil Dave]

Demosthenes said:
Abysia with a F9/E9 Scorpion King and horrible scales, going for a Lava Warrior Bless strategy until you get the Blood and Devils flowing is pretty sweet too.

I would even lead my early army with the SK if possible. F9/E9 Magma Bolts is freakin horrible.

Yup. I'm playing one of those now in another window. I made my starting Slayer my prophet, and he goes thru indie commanders like a pair of red hot knives thru butter.

[Boron]

Evil Dave said:

Yup. I'm playing one of those now in another window. I made my starting Slayer my prophet, and he goes thru indie commanders like a pair of red hot knives thru butter.

hey that is a pretty good idea

i play abysia most times with horror scales too but with a almostrainbow sc instead .

for early expansion your scorpion king is really great he is probably hard to beat there

army 1 : scorpion king + the starting troops
army 2 soon : lava warriors + an anamath dragon
+ your uberslayer expanding furthermore

lol now i am thinking if this strat is perhaps even better than my own abysia strat [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon07.gif[/img]