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Originally posted by Nagot Gick Fel:

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Originally posted by izaqyos:
Did anyone try out the desert tombs and miasma themes?

Miasma seems actually very interesting with a strong dominion. Now the interesting question is: does the diseasing effect also apply to your non-cold blooded pretender?

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I wondered this myself, but I've only used undead or CBed pretenders... Its annoying as well that indie priests and mages are a bit more of a risk, though there must be ways to protect them from disease.

I'm not sure about this, but I think with seasons the effects of the extra heat scale arn't as bad as they would be otherwise, though it depends on how much the seasons are effecting the temperature scales. My point is that though you have a +1 default difference from prefered, during certain seasons you will be at prefered, while other nations would be 1 off of their prefered... Of course what matters is how many seasons, and how far off of prefered Miasma is compared to other nations, but remember a swing of -2 is only an effect of -1 for miasma, there is no swing of +2 (which would be -3...)

Also miasma decreases taxes outside of your boarders by a decent amount (if I remember correctly) where you have domain, and the fact that you will take heat 2 and death 2 means that you will further complicate enemies taxes where you can get a domain advantage, if you are able to do it right you will really create problems for your neighbors, which of course will create problems for you in MP... I dunno, it will be interesting to see how it works in practicality.

Also you can seemingly use sloth at a high level since you don't have alot of resource hungry units (if you go with serpents and summons) so you can further crud up border provinces... seems Miasma is could be very effective for domain pushing since it adds more negatives to your neighbors.