[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Blitz:
I see the same dorks are here nitpicking at the use of the word "useless" again.

I see that your still demonstrating your ignorance of game mechanics and complete lack of social skills.

Norfleet is completely correct that save for the use for fire-9 blessing, the moloch is not a strong choice for any pretender role. Even in the fire-9 blessing role, he is arguably superceded by the phoenix, who is a stronger artillery unit and is of course... immortal.[/qb]

To bring a Moloch up to fire 9, dominion 6 costs you only 285 points. To do the same with the Phoenix costs 408 points. That's hardly a comparable role considering that the Moloch is a far superior fighter.

Having to tow around an army with your SC sucks. He's clearly worse than the POD and Virtue in the flying humanoid class, simply because of the presence of the imps.

You will eventually reach the point in just about any game where a single SC will be unable to deal with the armies your opponent's can put together. At that point, you will be bringing an army along with him anyways. Otherwise he'll just be taken out by a four or five castings of ghost riders.

Having said that, even with imp removal... the 70 point paths make building a killing machine extremely expensive.

Not at all, since items give him everything he needs. Blood thorn, lucky coin, starshine skullcap, copper plate/cold dragon armour, quickness boots, lightning ring/frost ring, regen ring. After all, the archdevils don't need anything other than those items.

Air and Earth magic are standard for most SC's, and selecting both bring the Moloch's pricetag up to a hefty 247 with FFF/EE/AA.

That's not a particularly effective build, since you can put only a moderate suit of armour on him to bring him up to high armour levels, and mistform breaks as soon as it is hit by a magic weapon.

How come nobody talks about their Shedus anymore? Wait! That pretender is perfect too.

This thread is not about the Shedu, which is why nobody but yourself is bringing up that off-topic irrelevancy.