[Cainehill]

Originally posted by Sheap:

During the early game you will not have the ability to send your pretender out busting independents. You also will not have the risk of getting your pretender afflicted. If someone stabs your 4/4/4 titan in the head, perhaps by standing on a tall ladder, and he gets feebleminded, you are toast. This will never happen with a rainbow mage.

I play a good number of rainbows, and I must agree - your human chassis rainbow won't get feebleminded. Instead, when something manages to get a hit in on your rainbow, he's dead, losing 1 from all those magic paths and possibly causing you to purchase a lot of relatively useless priests to recall him, at a minimum wasting the time of priest mages.

And frankly - sending the rainbow out searching for sites is a -very- good way of having that happen. Random events that bring a monster swarm in, assassins, summonings, etc - all great ways to have a dead rainbow mage.

And dead rainbow mages aren't as much fun as dead puppies.