[geoschmo]

Personally I don't have as much of a problem with Tailsman as I used to. In principle it's quite devastating, but in practice it never quite seems to work out as planned.

That being said I will have to agree with those that believe the Tailsman is really the only reason to go with the religious race. As Gandalph correctly points out the death shrine is a defensive facility. You only get the bonuses when the enemy is attacking you. And if the enemy captures your planets intact he then gets the bonus against all later ship combat in that sector. Not good IMHO.

I guess it would be allright if someone wanted to replace the never miss Tailsman with one that gave big bonuses to combat but still allowed for a chance of a miss instead. And then you could have different levels of Tailsman with increasing accuracy.

Didn't someone do a mod replacing the Tailsman with a mount? Using the mount for the weapon didn't change the size or damage, but increased the accuracy and cost? Seems like I remember that being talked about.

Geoschmo