[Wendigo]

I prefer Ermor with turmoil 3, misfortune 3 over turmoil 3, luck 3, but both are certainly viable.

Disagree, at least regarding competitive MP. Missfortune Ermor might be viable playing with rare events, but on standard event settings it's a poor choice IMO.

Without even considering the bad events (lab/temple losses, master thief...) you would be giving up on Money events, mine events, gem events & Etimmu.

While Ermor has lower monetary needs than live nations alchemy & pillaging can only take you so far to cover these...you have to pay for forts, temples, labs, indep wizards to expand your narrow magics & scouts. Which of those would you sacrifice? How can a few more magic levels on the pretender compensate for such sacrifice?

The pretender can still only search one province per turn, cast one ritual per turn, forge one item per turn or fight one battle per turn.

[ March 26, 2004, 09:45: Message edited by: Wendigo ]