Getting the max out of MA Agartha

[Trumanator]

Originally Posted by Jazzepi

Also, and I don't know why this is, but Argatha has some of the worst, most expensive castles that I've ever seen. They're regularly 1k-1.2k in gold, with FIFTEEN admin which makes them useless for sucking up resources. With this build I would focus on finding good placements for castles on plains/nothing which gives you a fortified city that has 50 admin.
Jazzepi

The good thing about the agarthan castles is that cave cities have autocast darkness, which means that any of your recruitables will destroy whomever tries to invade it in the early/mid game. Very useful, though perhaps not good enough for the high cost and low prod.

[chrispedersen]

Well, no one has picked up on it despite me dropping the hint several times. So I'll out and out state it:

For early game expansion under CBM, nothing (but nothing) beats a phoenix.

And agartha is a perfect fit. You don't want (or need) a lot of paths - you want scales. So something like an F4-6Ax. And for grins and giggles take H3.

[P3D]

Indeed