[Arryn]

Originally posted by Psitticine:
I play with the immobile pretenders quite a bit. I think they make early expansion a little harder, although the trade-off of having them busy researching, casting search-spells, and making items tends to set you up a bit better in terms of development.

As time goes on, my mobile pretenders tend to "settle down" anyway, save for really huge battles such as taking out an enemy capital, so immobility seems to make less and less of a difference for me as the game goes on, powerful (and more expendible) summons become available, and so forth.

As was very amply demonstrated to me in Zen's IRC game Last night, strategies that work quite well in SP tend to be quite bad in MP. I have a hunch that immobile pretenders falls into the Category of for-SP-only.

Feel free to disagree, since my first (and thus far only) MP game was Last night, so I still have very much to learn.