Re: LA Atlantis - frozen death from all directions
 

Well, depends. :) Arssartuts are very, very tough with a nice blessing. So tough that they'll often force your opponent to bring artillery counters to them (they'll tear up most SCs and troops). Twist fate helps a whole lot against many of the first choices for dealing with ultra-heavy infantry - gifts from heaven, banefire, leech, thunderstrike, etc. You can certainly make do without twist fate, but it pulls its weight through the whole game.

Re: LA Atlantis - frozen death from all directions
 

Atlantis has an issue with small armies. They both have fairly weak scales and extremely expensive (both gold and resources) troops. It's so hard to build up your best troops that you really don't want to lose them, especially because Assartuts and to a lesser extent Ice Guard can readily end up with 3-4 XP stars, which makes them terrifyingly powerful.

However, if you're saving up all those design points, you could readily get better scales. I checked out E4N4S9, and even without the +4 prot, Assartuts are very hard to kill, of which the Twist Fate is a big part. The lower reinvigoration still leaves them capable of fighting for a long, long time.

Re: LA Atlantis - frozen death from all directions
 

That's a reasonable choice, though for me part of the justification for the E9 blessing is thug potential. The extra reinvig and armor go a long way towards making it more economical to thug out not only Angakoks but even Tungaliks. Still, I'll be the first to agree that there's a good deal of opportunity cost choices when playing LA Atlantis.

Re: LA Atlantis - frozen death from all directions
 

Raising the thread from the dead...

I have a question about pretender chassis choices for this. Specifically, are there other options besides the Monolith? In CBM 1.6, the Great Enchantress starts with E and S. Would that be a reasonable way to go? (She'd be a bit more useful once she appears). Are there any other options?

Re: LA Atlantis - frozen death from all directions
 

I'm just playing with La atlantis right now and noticed that your kivigtok hero is outstanding, so i suggest you to not take negative luck scale, as you'll miss him
pros
-good base attack and defense 14/14
-good health 20
- good magic resistance 15
-no melee encumberance penalty from armor
-self blessable
-very cool sprite
plus 50 darkvision and cold resistance as all atlantians

con
-no feet
-can't use tower shield
-only poor amphibian
-no sailing