MA Agartha, or Yet another thread fishing for tips

Lazy_Perfectionist · #1 June 15th, 2007, 11:43 AM

Good idea for my practice game, thank you. Probably easiest to do with Earth Readers.

Lazy_Perfectionist · #2 June 15th, 2007, 02:14 PM

It also seems that they can carry a high dominion bonus with them into a low dominion area.

tibbs · #3 June 15th, 2007, 02:53 PM

Here's my build for MA argatha I pieced together from the advice in this thread.

Oracle Dominion 9
death4, earth 2
order 3, misfortune 2, magic 1, heat 1

I tested the oracle and with the awe and fear effect I can take even the toughest provinces like knights. On first turn I build the black plate armor and next turn I equip him and send him by himself into enemy provinces. I then build him a helm and shield before sending him into the really tough provinces. He doesn't kill much but they always seem to route before he dies.

I research enchantment first to get the statues unless I think I am by an aggressive or blessed nation. If I am, I then go evocation and use the spells other people have mentioned.

The dom 9 also provides more HP for the golems.

Lazy_Perfectionist · #4 June 15th, 2007, 08:04 PM

Sounds decent.

I've confirmed Llamabeasts opinion on Golems not dissolving when a spare mage is available. This'll be quite important for my guide. Thanks for mentioning it.

llamabeast · #5 June 15th, 2007, 08:05 PM

No probs

Lazy_Perfectionist · #6 June 20th, 2007, 02:02 PM

Here's a question for you.

If a Golem Crafter leading 15 golems is accompanied by an Ancient Lord carrying a Bottle of Living Water (+1 magic leadership) and the Golem Crafter dies, do the golems dissolve as usual?

I believe the answer is no. It's pretty easy to lab, but I lack the time to get my available games up to that research and gem level.

HoneyBadger · #7 June 21st, 2007, 07:03 PM

I set up a game so that I could follow along with this thread, and in the process, I equipped several ancient lords with a bunch of low-level protection enhancing gear-basically to get the maximum prot possible with Const 2.

I also gave them an Earth bless of 9 and I noticed, when I equipped them with a lead shield, black steel helmet, black steel armor (the suit, not the breastplate), a star of heroes, bracers of protection, boots of giant strength, and a luck amulet, they had a Prot of 27, but when I *blessed* them, Prot went up to 33, instead of 31-is there any accounting for this?