Help! strats using T'ien Chi's Celestial Mages ...

[Truper]

To my mind, Celestial Masters are all about Evocations. Unpredictable Evocations. Depending on how the randoms fall, they are capable of casting most anything, even odd things like Sulphur Haze, and doing it while Quickened.

[KissBlade]

Yeah I spoke with Ironhawk yesterday and he gave me similar advice. However, it seems to be that T'ien Chi S&A is really a big paper tiger. They can dish it out but they seriously can't take it. Their military, is a little subpar and they really can't conjure anything worthwhile at all unless you get a lucky roll and then make some boosters to help out. =(

[Sandman]

Playing S&A, I can scarcely be bothered to summon their demons. Are they really worth it?

[shovah]

as expensive as it seems try 30-40 fire demons, if you combine that with a w9 bless they absolutely slaughter enemys

[Truper]

If you could summon them faster than 1 at a time, they'd be great.

[KissBlade]

I'm not using S&A with a bless strategy. It's simply too expensive and impractical in my opinion since I can do a bless strategy with ANOTHER NATION a lot more effectively. Same goes for massing their military, which brings me back to my other point, why would I do something that I can do better with base theme? The M5E is a good point as well as raiding with Celestial Masters but you're trading off a much better income and losing your entire military as a trade off. Is it really worth it?

[Ironhawk]

For flying mages? Yeah it pretty much is After all S&A military is not terrible. I looked at it the other night - you get those heavy footment and you get archers. What else do you really need, given that your entire military is just like a placeholder to protect your mages? And you get the M5E which can sitesearch like no other as well, so you know your gem income will be good.