MP: The Ascension Wars: MA,12 players, no mods, newb friendly. [Year 4, 8/12 remaining]

[legowarrior]

Don't blame me about the rumors, I'm just passing along what I heard from the Rumor Mongers. Don't worry though because we'll go after those rumor mongers and stop them. We just don't know where they are... yet.

[Executor]

A bless strategy is not really a good thing for MA Ermor, don't get sucked in by how awesome the vestals are.
They are too expensive, capital only and too easy to kill. You'd need a high dominion to compensate for the capital only part and a water + astral bless is very expensive for Ermor.

Archers will still massacre your vestals even though they are ethereal.
Anything with moderate or high protection will be extremely hard to kill for them (str 9 and a spear). Even low level spell will make short work of them. They need undead leadership which means you'll lose a lot of early research and likely Grand Thaumaturgs.
And last but not least, Ermor desperately needs some diversity which it can get only with a pretender. Death and astral is what you have, which isn't a lot. Your non cap mages suck.

[Ragnarok-X]

Well i can say ermor bless on vestals is good, but they definitly cant beat angry ancient giants. Nice battle.

[samoht]

Originally Posted by Ragnarok-X

Well i can say ermor bless on vestals is good, but they definitly cant beat angry ancient giants. Nice battle.

Thanks. Now I gotta wait until I get home to watch that.

[samoht]

Originally Posted by Ragnarok-X

Well i can say ermor bless on vestals is good, but they definitly cant beat angry ancient giants. Nice battle.

Yeah the vestals don't hit very hard, plus his guys have regeneration. PLUS they have magical weapons which negates the etherealness of the vestals.

[Ragnarok-X]

Sorry. I didnt mean to spoiler if the participants havent watched it. I wont do it again, sorry. It wasnt bad, no worries.

[samoht]

Originally Posted by Ragnarok-X

Sorry. I didnt mean to spoiler if the participants havent watched it. I wont do it again, sorry. It wasnt bad, no worries.

haha don't worry about it. I'm not sure of the proper etiquette when it comes to discussing other nations' battles, but I'm mostly now too distracted at work to get anything done because I want to see what happened.

[3V4JKZ2]

OH! I was at school all day, but misread it! I thought I lost and was like "God damn it." I thought the line was "Ermor bless on vestals is good, and they definitely beat angry ancient giants." or something like that.

Now I'm home and courageous enough to open my turn file.

[3V4JKZ2]

...fine. Barbarian attack on one of my remaining provinces. Sure.

[samoht]

Originally Posted by 3V4JKZ2

...fine. Barbarian attack on one of my remaining provinces. Sure.

Yeah I saw that. That really sucked. The game wouldn't let you catch a break, huh?