"New" Pythium and the javelin throwers in general

[Keir Maxwell]

Originally posted by ywl:
Protection 12 is not bad, it's similar to Man's Sidhe (13) and tower guards (non-holy). Mictlan also has access to the spell "Protection". So their protection could be easily raised to 19. Not bad at all.

My low end on what is a decent Prot for HI is use Ctis City Guard with prot 14 used as arrow catchers with strat move 2 making them very useful HI. Prot 12 for a move 1 HI is pretty dodgy.

Sidhe have glamour and high def to keep them alive while Tower guard arn't very good are they? If they had a move of 2 I could think up some uses for them but as it is I ignore them as belonging to the Category of unfortunate troops. Still the only Man race I've used in Dom2 is Tuatha so I could be wrong.

My Last Mictlan try had the fountain of blood with blood 5 and water 9 to give the Sacred troops and mages a boost in both defence and offence but it didn't work. The best I have done is with earth 9 - though blood 4 makes quite a difference to offensive punch to what are still mediocre HI when blessed. The Sun Warriors have low protection for their role, they are slow strategically and tactically, you can only build a very limited number per turn in your capital *and* they are your best national unit. Problematic. However I'm still keen to work away at Mictlan every once and awhile in the hope something new will pob up - like the upcoming patch.

Your idea of protection is interesting. Lacking a cheap nature mage and with protection having an area of 1 Mass Protection is what is really needed. Mass Protection is too far away to be there when you need it early. Still definitly something to keep in mind as Mass Protection would really seriously improve the army.

Cheers

Keir