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Psitticine · #1 September 29th, 2005, 12:16 PM

I will sometimes use combat-orientated pretenders in a short game. I stay away from them in normal-sized or longer games, and I am always very careful with them. It is one thing to send them against a group of barbarians; it is quite another to face them off against a human opponent's main army.

shovah · #2 September 29th, 2005, 12:31 PM

and with the amount of magic you can dump on human pretenders its no wonder (boots of callus then cast quickness and spam neifel flames or another mega spell)

High_Priest_Naresh · #3 September 29th, 2005, 12:48 PM

I know what you mean, arch mage with 4 lvl 8 paths! and 3 lvl 5 sure, this put a serious hurt in my scales but it was worth it! found some ultra cool magic sites and was getting maybe between 10-30 gems a turn around turn 15!
(roughly conquering 1 province a turn then after turn 8 two a turn)

quantum_mechani · #4 September 29th, 2005, 12:58 PM

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High_Priest_Naresh said:
I know what you mean, arch mage with 4 lvl 8 paths! and 3 lvl 5 sure, this put a serious hurt in my scales but it was worth it! found some ultra cool magic sites and was getting maybe between 10-30 gems a turn around turn 15!
(roughly conquering 1 province a turn then after turn 8 two a turn)

You know that no magic sites need more than four in a path to find?

Vicious Love · #5 September 29th, 2005, 02:05 PM

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High_Priest_Naresh said:
I know what you mean, arch mage with 4 lvl 8 paths!

How much empowerment does that involve? I'm too lazy to check my math or actually run the game, but I think it costs 90 more points than you get, even with all scales at -3.

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and 3 lvl 5 sure, this put a serious hurt in my scales but it was worth it!

Another 366 points?

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quantum_mechani said:
You know that no magic sites need more than four in a path to find?

And the vast majority need only one or two levels.

Vicious Love · #6 September 29th, 2005, 02:06 PM

D'oh. Beaten. And by a wide margin. Had this window open for a long, long while while browsing unrelated stuff and taking an endless series of pointless phone calls. Apologies for the repetition.

High_Priest_Naresh · #7 September 30th, 2005, 03:31 AM

around 4 empowerments?

PDF · #8 October 1st, 2005, 11:50 AM

PD of 50 ?? Darn bad use of funds ...What kind of game do you play ? Solo marathons of 100+ turns ?
About Magic Carpet the funniest I've done is to put Tarrasques on them

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PDF · #9 September 29th, 2005, 01:17 PM

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High_Priest_Naresh said:
I know what you mean, arch mage with 4 lvl 8 paths! and 3 lvl 5 sure, this put a serious hurt in my scales but it was worth it! found some ultra cool magic sites and was getting maybe between 10-30 gems a turn around turn 15!
(roughly conquering 1 province a turn then after turn 8 two a turn)

Sorry, but that's not possible : an Archmage with 4 * lvl 8 and 3 * lvl 5 (0 in the last path), with all scales at worst value possible, 0 pt castle and dom 1 would cost more than 800 points...

Perhaps you meant 4 * lvl 4 (not 8) and 3 * lvl 5 ??

This is more reasonable

High_Priest_Naresh · #10 September 29th, 2005, 01:59 PM

yeah some thing like that we have a cat and it loves jumping on the keyboard so some time I make mistakes....
and as for the magic sites, I know that max is lvl 4
but still I found plenty of magic sites