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Old July 8th, 2008, 06:20 PM

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Ashdod weak? Wow. I'm tapering off on Ashdod play in SP because I'm starting to feel guilty using them, like I used to feel guilty about Helheim (pre-Svartalf-adjustment) because the game is too easy. Ashdod is Niefelheim-strength sacreds with EA C'tis and LA Agartha's mages, plus Pythium's national summons. Very, very solid, very flexible. Hire Obscuro to forge some Winged Boots and there is NOTHING I want in a nation that I don't have in Ashdod.

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Old July 8th, 2008, 06:51 PM
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Sorry for going a little OT, but as we're talking about Agarthan pretenders... Did anybody try the Drakaina as a pretender? Her theme and flavour seems a masterpiece to me ^^
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Old July 8th, 2008, 07:43 PM

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I've been railing the CPU-controlled enemy Drakaina that Atlantis has been using. Maybe the CPU is just horribly misusing her, but my Olm has been eating her for breakfast.

(do Olms eat breakfast?....)
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Old July 8th, 2008, 11:38 PM

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What I've been liking about the Olms is their 0 supply usage. I have several armies of "better" troops, that keep running out of food.

My Olm armies are steam-rolling the opposition on numbers alone and require 0 supplies on top of it all, while my others are dying of disease.
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Old July 9th, 2008, 12:27 AM

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I didn't think Olms were recruitable or summonable--I thought you only got them as multiheroes. How do you get enough Olms for supply to be an issue?

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Old July 9th, 2008, 01:41 AM
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I'm pretty sure he's referring to the Agarthans themselves there. They have NNE, which is an incredible boon of course, if only they could face LA Ermor.....
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Old July 9th, 2008, 03:55 AM
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Agartha, by the way, isn't just a name the Devs made up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agartha

Pretty interesting stuff.
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I didn't think Olms were recruitable or summonable--I thought you only got them as multiheroes. How do you get enough Olms for supply to be an issue?

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My bad. I meant the pale folk of all sorts. Pale Ones, Wet Ones, Cave Guard .....
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Default Re: The Ancient Olm, a viable strategy?

You're right Tifone, but it DOES say that Patala is IN Agartha.
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