Suggestions for Forge Lord pretender for EA Agartha.

[13lackGu4rd]

EA Agartha really doesn't need a bless, as its sacred troops are laughable compared to real bless rush nations. the Forge Lord is great if you can survive the early game, otherwise an awake SC pretender is what you're looking at. seeing that your opponents currently are AI, there's no reason why you shouldn't survive the early game, thus the Forge Lord is very much viable. E4F4S4 is great on it, opens up most of the items you'll need, maybe add some D too for an easy way into tarts later on. also, take him dormant not imprisoned, imprisoned just takes too long to be available, and you want to start forging as soon as possible, so begining of year2 is perfect research wise and gives you plenty of points to play with. O3S3Misf2Magic1 are the standard scales you're looking at, taking temperature and death scales is optional for more magic on your Forge Lord, also possible to take temperature3+death3 and change misf2 to Luck3 for a lot of gems, but than you won't be able to afford as many magic paths on your Forge Lord.

[rdonj]

You can play agartha SP using an e9 bless, but it's definitely not necessary. You can really completely ignore using the agarthan sacreds. Troglodytes with some shielded agarthans as arrow catchers is sufficient for expansion and should work just fine. If you really want to make the national bless useful though, you need enough E to reach net neutral fatigue, or they'll just die like giant, expensive flies.