Re: General Help for a not quite Beginner
 

Arrg... I should have read these replies last week! Damn you for not posting earlier! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
-SSJ

BTW: I second the "badness" of starting with a low Dominion. My first MP game is going a few weeks old and some poor guy was Dominion killed before he could even shake hands with a neighbor.

Re: General Help for a not quite Beginner
 

I think the worst bless is air. Blood is better on the late game to make blessed chaff actually deal damage.

Re: General Help for a not quite Beginner
 

blood is worse than air. It doesn't help you hit, which can be harder to come across than damage. Air provides airshield and, more importantly in late game, 75%SR.

Re: General Help for a not quite Beginner
 

If you've gone for the A9 bless to get 75% SR then I don't know what to tell you. Other than 'stop wasting your points' ;]

A9 bless and B9 bless are about equal in terms of how crap they are. Same goes for lower level versions of those two. High blood is marginally more useful as a pretender magic than high air though, which is really pointless.

Re: General Help for a not quite Beginner
 

I played as Man in the Middle Age and I'm pretty sure I wasted my Pretender points again (at least outside of my scales). I picked the P. Sorceress and have used her for nothing other than research so I'm clearly doing something wrong.

On the other hand, the game is better than Dominions 2 and might even be better than Gal Civ 2 in terms of being a great turn based strategy game. I just wish the graphics were more presentable (not RTS level, but I think Emperor of the Fading Suns looked better and it came out in 1998 I think).

Re: General Help for a not quite Beginner
 

the AI of Gal Civ 2 would be interesting. The developers should cross-pollinate...

-SSJ