Re: Iron Faith Ulm
I always go high in construction with ulm as I love the mechanical men. They work so well against the electrical, fire, and poison creatures produced by many other races.
Yes...I fight only within my own dominion with my lich. But my dominion, though weak initially, will grow strong as more temples are constructed. The lich will become a defensive combatant after that.
Initially, your domain spreads unless there is an opponent very nearby. My plan was to have the pretender do research unless I get lucky and find sages, at least until construction 4. Then he goes out to find some death gems and make skull mentors for some inquisitors unless I've found something better to research for me.
With inquisitors, it should be fairly easy to reverse enemy dominions as they will have a priest level of 5 for that effect.
Fire lanterns are constructable by my native mages...the skull mentors can only be made by my pretender...again unless I find something else able to construct them. Hopefully, I will eventually be able to summon something else to do this. Of course there will be skull mentors before there are lanterns, but eventually there will be researchers with lanterns who do not have skull mentors until I can summon something to make them.
I prefer to save my air gems for eyes of aiming. Without these, blade wind is much less effective.
The picks in magic are for the magic that I will need in order to best maximize the national mages, which after all are the only mages I know for a fact that I will get. The reason for going up to 4 is so that I will have some bless effect.
What have you done with Iron Faith, Zen? I know you are someone who has experimented with it in the past if I recall your Posts correctly.
(I have been having luck with a great sage and Ulm, and I also want to test out different pretenders.)
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