Help Design my EA TC Setup?.(CBM 1.71)

[LDiCesare]

A9 looks like a real waste. W9 or S9, or W9S9 are much better. D9,F9,E4+,N4+ are also interesting, but Air is definitely not.

A9 will only help your warriors of the 5 elements if you send them alone against archers, and maybe a little bit your demons of heavenly fires. W9 will help your demons of heavenly waters and celestial soldiers. S9,E4+ will help all, including your mages. N4+ will help your demons and celestial soldiers.

I never have had problems with archers when playing EA TC. Just don't send your warriors of the 5 elements against archers. You have tons of tower-shield equipped troops to suck arrow fire, so the Wot5E should never be in any danger of these, so an air bless is a total waste of points in my opinion.
Of course, if you back your warriors with your own archers, you may get some collateral damage. There's an easy solution to that: Don't do it, or use aim.

[rabelais]

I was mostly interested in the a9 bless because it gave my Wot5E 125% lightning protection whick witha strong air pretender could be fun. Plus once they expected nothing but lightning I could change it up. I'm not trying to be a superweenie optimizer, I just want some kind of interesting synergy.

But I realize the problem with EA TC isn't pretenders (even though these are largely meh and bad for blesses) but that their single recruitable archer is 14 resources and is still totally useless in melee and hasn't enough protection(9)to survive an arrow fusillade.

I'll figure something out I'm sure, but except for map move 2 these are terrible units (and to paraphrase woody allen) you can recruit so few of them. are there worse national archers in EA? Make me feel better, tell me about them.

I thought about the water bless, but the only water 2 pretender I get just got nerfed in 1.7 and I don't know enough about their summons to judge if it is worth the points. Is there an updated summoned creature or national spell resource somewhere?



Thanks for all replies.

[rdonj]

http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/Spring_and_Autumn

I would say that probably any normal shortbow archer is worse, because shortbows don't really do damage to much. Composite bows at least do pack some punch, even if they are harder to mass.