Please Help Me Tune My Man

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Teleolurian:
I'm looking for advice on tuning my game/play style with this nation.

Pretender: Druid (erm, the extra-vine-summons guy) 6 Nature, 4 Earth.

Eek. Picking an human mage to pump only 2 magic paths isn't very effective cost-wise. If you want only earth+nature Bigtits is the way to go. She'll cost you less than a Druid once you buy some dominion candles, and she'll do much much more for you than a few extra Vine men or ogres. Forget building strong bless effects with a human mage.

Wizard's Tower

For Man admin matters much more than fast and cheap building. The Fortified City will give you what you really need, for 40 less design points.

1 Growth, 2 Order, -1 Luck; leftover points into Dominion.

That's 4 dominion if I count right. With the same scales and castle, a Mother would give you 6.

Order 2/Luck -1 is dangerous. Order 3/Luck -3 is cheaper, safer, and grant you a better income.

Minuses:
Longbowmen never hit anything.

With Wind Guide they're truly great.

Weak priests means my prophet is usually my starting scout.

Suicide him as soon as you can recruit an independent holy-3 priest. Look for amazon tribes.

Mage production sucks, since it's capital-centric.

That shoul be an incentive to pick the highest admin castle, and a prod+3 scale.

So, how do I tighten it? My armies were mostly Warden-centric, backed up by frontlines of Vine summons and flanked by longbows.

Sounds good. Don't forget Wind Guide if you use Wardens and LBs in the same army. I think the Virtue with lots of air magic is a good choice for Man, as Wardens are costly, yet very vulnerable to crossbows and LB friendly fire.