LA Atlantis, another thread looking for tips

[SelfishGene]

Assartuts and other cheaper sacred capital units are excellent for continuous early expansion. Many play up the ability of certain nations like Ermor or Pythium to expand from turn one, but at turn 4 a nation with cheap sacred and a good bless like Atlantis can expand continuously with hardly any reinforcement every turn after. (I think the Eagle Warrior and Shadow Vestal are the kings and queens (respectively) of cheap capital-only sacreds.)

The Assartut's big weakness is it's relative lack of armor, but as above, this makes it easier to mass them in numbers. And being cheap they are easy to maintain.

Harpoon throwers have only one selling point and that is they are the only unit that can be quickly massed by Atlantis: everything else is quite expensive in resources. Atlantis' high resource cost is a big weakness after a major defeat, they have a hard time coming back.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

I believe those harpoons actually decrease defense, though I've had quite a bit of trouble tracking their effects throughout a battle.

Chaff is an exceptionally good idea when facing heavy cavalry, though I haven't tried other counters. Can any of the other units handle cavalry charges?

[Sombre]

Units with good def can do ok vs cav without having to die in the process. At least in my experience.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

You've got a good point there. The seal hunters and snow warriors have no real defense, but the Ice Guards (w/sword) have a defense of 15. How good is okay? The gold cost is a lot lower, but looking at resources, I could get 6 seal hunters.

[Shovah32]

Assartuts, combined with a death bless(i like a dom9 D9 Prince of Death with LA atlantis) can do some very nasty things to thugs and SCs, particularly those nasty early expansion pretenders. The prince himself on the other hand can nicely get those big globals up for you and makes a nice SC of his own when outfitted properly.