[Jasper]

Originally posted by Keir Maxwell:
A very different race to play I suspect despite some similarities.

The big difference between our races is the dominion - dom4 is just too low for my liking and unable to meaningfully use the Cu Sidhe so significantly slower than Dom6. Don't underestimate the extra speed the Cu Sidhe (1 resource!) give you if you can grab some decent gold producing provinces early. Also with dom 4 you will only be able to build 4 Sidhe a turn - thats not enough. I'm not sure 6 is enough in the long term.

I'm not concentrating solely on the Sidhe, as longbows can be usefull for expansion too. 4 Sidhe + 1 Champion is 280, which is more than I can afford early on anyway. 10 temples will let you go to 6 Sidhe + Lord later on is 490, which is plenty to spend.

Basically, I made the trade off to get less Sidhe, but more income and hence stuff overall. I effectively decided not to use the Cu weren't as well.

I was actually very impressed with the kill speed of the quickened Sidhe and in my tests tried walking straight on into HC provinces early with decent success. I suspect it could be a critical mass for the job question.

Hmmmm. You may be right about the critical mass, as I may have been a bit too aggressive. I only tried it briefly, but the extra power seemed to do ok with less Sidhe.

Regarding arrow catching...

That's basically what I do too. I typically prefer to have somewith a little more armor do it though. I suspect this may be much less effective against players however, as it'll be harder to predict where their archers are.

Did you research quickness for the Blue Dragon when you tried it Jasper? I haven't had an affliction yet with the Dragon and as its always operating with Sidhe, and often taking out archers etc at the back, its not a high risk pretender strategy - though there obviously is a risk.

Ahhhh. I did have Quickness, but had the dragon operating alone, taking on moderate to weak provinces. The Blue dragon seems much less suited to this than the Red Dragon. The Green Dragon seems even better due to Regeneration, although it requires more research and I haven't tried it with Tuatha. I'm not sure whether or not Nature 9 bless would be effective on Sidhe...

[ November 26, 2003, 10:23: Message edited by: Jasper ]