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Swamp Survival? If you have a W9 pretender, he could cast Quagmire. Plus when the rider dies, the lizard fights the rest of the battle. I usually buy Oiorpatas though, but I do like a W9 bless. So maybe I should try Quagmire with a bunch of Androphags some day.

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Got to give it a try. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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What's the effect of Quagmire ?

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Pg 259: -1 att, -1 def, +2 enc, swamp survival negates

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thanks http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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It's a good way to spread dominion, but it doesn't help with the actual fighting very much, does it? And the fortune telling strategy sounds risky. I mean, if I use high fortune scales I usually get like 200 extra gold each turn from events (if you average it out). If I lost 200 each turn instead I wouldn't be able to get any Enaries ~~ And if I did get them I couldn't afford an army. Either way, it sounds like it would screw you over way too much early on.

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Order 3 Misfortune 2 is pretty standard. It tends to get you more gold early on when you aren't getting 3 events/turn, and more again during the late game when you've expanded to the point that your 3/turn aren't as important.

Of course, Order/luck is always fun too. Although I am usually more of an order person myself.

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Sauromatia has a number of unique tactics available to it.

Here they are:

1. Poison Cloud spamming w/Hydra. Undead created by Raise dead and Raise Skeletons and Hydras are all immune to poison, and Hydras produce poison clouds and you get Nature mages who can cast Poison Cloud. Spam undead so that they mass around hydras and let the enemy army hot your front line of mixed hydras undead. Hydras kill anything close to them and the poison clouds will surrounds them, and the undead will take hits so that your expensive hydras won't get killed. The Poison from Androphage archers also won't hurt these troops.

2. Leeching Darkness and Raise dead/Skeletons can jam a castle entrance better than anything in the game.

3. ASAP make an undead/demon commander into your prophet, as a Sauromatian H3 can Reanimate Longdead Horsemen, a nearly unique ability that produces dramatically better reanimated undead.

4. Witch Kings seem designed to spam Drain Life.

5. You get one of the only real province defenses in the game (it can withstand a real army if you invest in it).

6. Dominion kill with blood sacrifice.

7. You are really good at communions, since you can combine Sabbaths and Astral Communions.

8. Keep standard units in your army to keep yoour armies from routing.

9. You get really good EA archers in addition to the wicked Androphage Archers.

10. You seem naturally designed to summon Dark Vines.

More later....

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Cool... like... I thought Dark Vines sucked... Shows what I know : /

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Dark Vines aren't that strong offensively. But they make an excellent wall to hold the enemy back while you pound them with arrows and poison.