[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Pocus:

I find Ctis weak because it was easy to ward against poison in dominions I, and because except the swamp guards, which is only capitol based, their infantry are seriously behind the others.

Elite warriors are pretty good IMO, can be raised in masses because of their low resource cost, and can be produced everywhere.

- their sauromancers cost 180 gp (normal cost of many 'big' national mages), *but* they are only 3-1-? where as the others are 3-2-?

I fully agree with JO's analysis on this.

- they are all cold blooded, and it is nearly impossible for Ctis to warm up the battlefield (heat from hell : forget about it), or even worse a province (you need a global to do that!), whereas it is rather easy to winterize a province with wolven winter. Result : you have no counter against the big fatigue hit you will take when fighting in cold, like against Ermor, Caelum, etc.

You mean, no counter *early* - Enchantment research is a big priority for C'tis, because of all these reanimation spells, ant it gives you Relief as well (better used by communion-leading shamen - with 2 masters and 4 slaves, fatigue isn't a concern anymore).

And even if their masters do suffer from cold, don't forget their undead creatures are immune to cold effects. If Caelum is a problem, retaliate with spectres, ghosts, behemoths, and hordes of lesser undeads ;-)

- their priests are perhaps powerful, but as costly as others. The 30 gp one isnt worthy of anything because he is mainly an indep priest *without* any leadership The Serpent King has a description which doesnt fit with what he does : would you really invest 280 gp into a 17 hp combatting leader?

I do. 17 hp isn't much, but at least that's enough to survive a Seeking Arrow or FFTS or MW, in my experience anyway. And they have an impressive leadership rating, which is good to keep the low morale lizards in line.

So he will only be used as priest. For 100 gp more I get an Arch Theurg with 7 (or is it 8) levels of magic!

I don't like the priest-mages much anyway. I want my big priests to stick to Fanaticism (especially with C'tis ;-)

the list can goes one. These lizards desserve a big boost in doms II

I'd say they're slightly below average. Ermor is much weaker in MP IMO.

[ October 02, 2003, 15:06: Message edited by: Nagot Gick Fel ]