Happy New Year, New Game, New Players (Finished: Dojango/Mictlan Wins!)

[Immaculate]

Claws of Kokytos > 3 grendelkin.

Yeah- so... everyone share their pretender builds.

Mine was a rainbow druid that i empowered in blood. I don't know if you all knew this or not but i had really strong research for most of the first 2/3 of the game.

Who took the ruby eye? Mictlan?

[Excist]

Dom 4 (thus the pre-emptive strike against the bloodsaccing Mictlan) Druid Pretender with Magic paths F4 E9 S4 N10 B4

Turmoil: 3
Sloth: 1
Heat: 3
Death: 3
Luck: 3
Drain: 2

My plan was to roll over any high dom neighbors with my blessed sacreds early and live majoritively in any good dominion I could find (Hinnom's did nicely for quite awhile as I was able to out-eco everybody else even with only half of my territory in Hinnom's dominion)

Agarthan sacreds are cheap to purchase and cheap to maintain and with 13 attack value + stars and 28 damage (15 attack and 38 damage for the cap only version) when berserking meant death to most units and thugs even on a shield-hit and with ~20 prot and 10 hp/round regen they were pretty impossible to kill for the majority of the game.

[dojango]

Originally Posted by Immaculate

Claws of Kokytos > 3 grendelkin.

Yeah- so... everyone share their pretender builds.

Mine was a rainbow druid that i empowered in blood. I don't know if you all knew this or not but i had really strong research for most of the first 2/3 of the game.

Who took the ruby eye? Mictlan?

I was using the Mictlanese Stone Head with 9F4N4B. Scales were O3S3H3G1L3M1 Dom 8. In my test games, turmoil 3 wasn't nearly enough gold income to fuel the starting expansions, so I went order with a slightly weaker bless, figuring as long as income > attrition, it wouldn't matter.

But I want to emphasize a few things. One thing, really. I was amazingly, stupidly, unfairly lucky. Mictlan's three weak schools are air, death, and earth, and I found a death mage and an air mage site in Pangaea's territory, which was pretty nice, because they provided a heck of a research boost in addition to forging skull mentors to power up my research (I managed to surpass Helheim by the end) and forge spirit helms and bows of war for my dudes. I also found the crystal amazons, who provided some archery oomph. And of course who could forget the 3000g windfall late year 2 that let me build three forts at once?


Oh yeah, and before I forget, I had the 30% blood discount site near my capital.