January 26th, 2004, 03:09 PM
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Re: What do you recommend for Ashen Empire Scales and Domain ?
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Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
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Originally posted by Nagot Gick Fel:
Luck, pick 0, and push that up to +3 if you have spare design points after buying the essentials.
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I went luck+3 in my Last game. But... it's worthless! There are no good events. None. Good events depend on your scales, and if all your scales are -3, the only "good" event is the necromancer showing up (due to death 3, I imagine). However, because "free" "volunteers" still demand pay, that's a major negative. Sometimes militia show up, too - that can be crippling... they die of disease, and cost you a good 128 gold in so doing (25 units * 7 gold each * 11 turns to die from disease)/15.
So - DON'T choose luck! Luck is worthless to ashen empire. You don't even get many gems, due to the drain scale.
Next time I design an Ashen god, it will be -3 all scales, cheapest (gold-wise) castle, Dominion 9, an undead - possibly immortal - god, and the rest on magic paths. Don't worry about bless effects, BTW... knights are super-rare no matter what you do, and only have 6 or 7 HP (any fire spell annihilates them).
Don't take drain with AE/SG Ermor. They have terrible research to begin with, and depend totally on summons to have any unit that isn't pathetic. And you can't afford Skull Mentors, not because you need the gems to summon more researchers, but because you need them to summon Behemoths, Wraith Lords, Armies of the Dead, etc...
Luck, on the other hand, isn't bad. You get free gems, which is always nice (especially for AE/SG which don't have a good mage other than their pretender to search with, dusk elders are very expensive and nothing else has a random). And you don't get your temples and labs destroyed by bad events (which you would otherwise get a lot, with turmoil). Having your provinces conquered is irritating too.
If you don't take luck and magic - what are you doing with the points? Sinking even more points into a pretender that can only be in one place at a time? I know you aren't spending them on order, productivity, growth (ha!)...
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People do not like to be permanently transformed and would probably revolt against masters that tried to curse them with iron bodies.
Pigs, on the other hand, are not bothered, or at least they don't complain.
-- Dominions II spell manual
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