MA Man Advice Needed: Proper Use of Units

K · #1 February 27th, 2008, 07:16 PM

The easiest AND most powerful tactic is to get a Fire mage and cast Flaming Arrows. Combined with your Longbowman, this is a devastating combo.

Make Fever Fetishes and pass them around scouts so that your forward armies always have fire gems to cast the spell.

If you haven't gotten Fire mages, you'll need to make one. Empower a young guy(since Fire magic ages casters) and make items like Flaming Skulls. Make sure to script Phoenix Power, and don't forget that with an extra gem you can cast a spell one level higher.

jscott · #2 February 27th, 2008, 07:21 PM

Great tips here, thanks.

Some of it is over my head at the moment, but I'm sure it will make more sense as I play.

Zeldor · #3 February 27th, 2008, 07:23 PM

K:

Maybe that is good for his situation, but getting 50 fire gems without fire mages searching is practically impossible.

vfb · #4 February 27th, 2008, 07:37 PM

You can trade for fire gems in MP. Luck and Magic scales will help you get random fire gems too.

I'd say empower a indy-magic-site Witch if you've got one, or an Enchantress. You should be able to find those sites if they exist by the time you get 53F.

You want at least N1, that's the most critical. E1 is also nice because then you can make Fire Brands and Charcoal Shields later. W is nice to make Rune Smashers.

53F lets you make a N1F1 mage, who then can just make as many fever fetishes as possible. Man has problems with Astral too, and if you take astral on your god, a Shroud will keep your fever fetish units alive forever (and your old crones too).

Don't bother site searching F initially, just concentrate on the fever fetishes.

LDiCesare · #5 February 28th, 2008, 06:47 AM

You can always get fire/death gems by using the so expensive acashic record. Better to target mountain regions which have either not been searched or have been but hold 0-1 or at most 2 sites.
Against Arco, you should beware in case the ai suddenly decides to send in elephants. My son experienced the fact that elephants tend to squish whatever front line you put between them and the archers, and it can be nasty if they reach the longbowmen.

Zeldor · #6 February 28th, 2008, 09:25 AM

Acashic Record as Man? You can get only one astral mage and it is a hero.

LDiCesare · #7 February 28th, 2008, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Zeldor said:
Acashic Record as Man? You can get only one astral mage and it is a hero.

He said he had a S4 pretender, so she can cast it.

Maraxus · #8 February 28th, 2008, 10:39 AM

Note, that there is no need to put all Longbowman into one squad. Longbowman are very good at shooting enemy archers, however, once the enemy archers are servely reduced, and the melee enemies are close, you will not want every archer to shoot the last ranged opponents (untill they rout).

Splitting your archers into a "fire archers" and a "fire closest" squad can work out well.