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Originally posted by IKerensky:
Well, I am just a newbie and all that but, even if Rainbow are great and all thus... what actually is there advantage against a nation SC or Bless Pretender that have access to an Astral national mage or hero to Acashic to his leisure...

A few are:

* Being able to do so without spending all those astral gems.

* Being able to do so much earlier than other nations, for a magical snowball effect.

* Being able to use a very wide variety of spells, summons and items, use them together, etc.

* Being able to get a bigger head start on research.

I personnaly have an hard time playing RB as I tend to keep them with their researching ubberness at home then I really have trouble having them scout the countryard meaning I am going to lose 20+ RP for the "possibility" of finding some site I could eventually find later on with spells.

Rainbow pretenders make very good researchers, but there are usually better things for them to do (that can't be done by purchasable units, perhaps with items), except maybe during the first few turns.

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