Whats your favorite nation/pretender combo VS AI?
 

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Ermor ashen empire/lich queen is probably most powerful vs. AI.

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Any Ermor pretender with undead theme is best against the AI, because the AI simply can't do a mass anti-undead strategy.

Otherwise my current favourite is Arco/Nataraja

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Something experimental http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I was going to try a w9 or f9 pretender (dragon or maybe moloch) with pythium serpent cult. I've heard that the sacred hydras arn't so good in practice.

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Virtue - Caelum, Tien Chi or Marignon

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I'm not sure if it's exactly favorite, but I like to have a Rainbow for Ulm that can do maximum amount of path boosters, given time. IIRC only Blood boosters were out of reach without empowerment. Great Sorceress works nicely.

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I can't bring myself to play that.... thatis TOO easy-like godmode lol.

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Tien CHi SA Oracle 6astral Rebalance mods and the unit balance mod.

Otherwise
Arco+Nataraja
Man+Virtue 6air 6astral

Ctis Masiasma 6Death lizard litch guy(I think).

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Well, then you can probably throw out Caelum/ghost king as well. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

So, apart from those, Niefelhiem, nature 9 dragon is pretty nice, not hard to build AI army smashers.

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What is so powerfull about caleum/ghost king?

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Well, Caelum because it's mages are super cheap, have access to very good spells combat combined with quickness, and are flying for great raiding. They also have a ton of points to use because they like cold 3, and the troops are pretty great, too.

The ghost king is only that powerful base game. He is merely above average in Zen's mod. In base game, though, he is very cheap access to a rainbow and a very good SC in one.

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Caelum is indeed powerful, but their troops are not great. With the exception of the hugely resource-intensive Iceclads (which you can hardly build if you take Sloth, which you tend to take because the other troops need so few resources ...) ... most of the troops are below average in terms of strength, armour and hp. It's only the fact that they can fly which makes you build any at all.

Weak troops doesn't stop Caelum being an awesome race though, purely thanks to its mages.

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It's true that the flying ones are below average in several ways, but flying more than makes up for them. As for non-flying ones... mammoth and wingless work very well together.

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I like Pangaea with either Lord of the Hunt or Manticore
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