Advice for MA Man

[Shovah32]

I'm going to have to go with Meglobob here. You miss out on some magic diversity compared to the rainbows, particularly the powerful death and astral magic, but I love earth magic and the cyclops. Your pretenders also pretty much a more powerful(magically much more so), non-undead version of the Tartarian E3A2 Cyclops who is very powerful.

[Jazzepi]

Shovah32 said:
I'm going to have to go with Meglobob here. You miss out on some magic diversity compared to the rainbows, particularly the powerful death and astral magic, but I love earth magic and the cyclops. Your pretenders also pretty much a more powerful(magically much more so), non-undead version of the Tartarian E3A2 Cyclops who is very powerful.

I'm bad with midrange pretenders like Meglobob was suggesting, but I'm sure it's good.

I still don't like the extreme lack of access to astral and death, but what can you do ;P

Jazzepi

[Shovah32]

You do miss it, but not as much as you would think. And the E9A4 Cyclops is a great combatant and an insane battle mage. Like Bob said - cloud trapeze into battle and cast a few rain of stones/earthquakes to wipe out armies. Preferably rain of stones first to kill those mages.

[ano]

I like the idea of taking a cyclops, however you will be able to take neither growth or prod, nor magic. Your mages will get diseased too often, you won't be able to expand really fast due to lack of units and you will never win the research race. Yes, each of these can be thought of as "minor disadvantage", but put together they form a major one, I think. What do you get in return? A very good combat pretender, maybe an SC and access to air boosters. Not a good trade, as for me.
However, teleportable combat mage casting Rain of Stones can be really fine if not aiming for E9 bless for sacreds (which could be very good sacreds if they had faster feet. Actually it seems strange to me that they are so slow).
Titan E4A4 seems a better choice to me.

Titan (Body 602, 90 hits)
Magic: Air 4 Earth 4
Dominion 6
Scales: Order 3 Productivity 2 Growth 2 Misfortune 2 Magic 1
Dormant

[Zeldor]

With Growth 2-3 even N4 mages get old and diseased really really fast. It looks like they would get the old age at 30-50. I have no idea why crones can't get it at 100-150. That would make that weak nation just a bit better.

[Agema]

If you've got N4 mages, you can surely cast Gift of Health, which removes afflictions and so should save a lot of your crones, shouldn't it? Or does it not stop age afflictions?

[llamabeast]

I don't think Man is a weak nation, Zeldor.