[Boron]

Originally posted by alexi:
yeah.. i figured standard vanheim was better. and sloth3 prevents you from building a bunch of 20 unit squads of skin shifters within a few turns.

but today i started playing around with the Midguard theme, and it kicks ***!! much better then standard theme. Cos in midguard you get cheaper researchers with astral2. This didn't strike me as more usefull then the other magic unit which has A2 and 2random. But imagine the sight of a squad of 25-30 skinshifters that are all ethereal and lucky, making them almost impossible to hit, and if you do hit them, they go into beast form and regenerate!! And then you have 6-10 Stellar Cascades stunning your entire army so that even your best units are unconscious, just waiting for my impossible-to-hit-regenerating-beasts to rip them to shreds.. its extremely effective.

All that WITHOUT a pretender! No bless, no rainbow, no supercombatant.

Anyways, I'm sure you could adapt this strategy for any race that has cheap S2 mages. And it would be even more powerfull with sacred units and a F9 or W9 bless.

hm good strat i never thought of that problem :
etheral effect is canceled by magic weapons .
caelum has magic weapons .
every race with f9 bless too .

+ you need 2 turns with your mages casting etheral + luck and your skinshifters on hold orders .

so archers/x-bows espeically with wind guide/flaming arrows can cause severe damage while you buff

so do any flying armies with attack rearmost orders or something similiar


but otherwise a really nasty idea . evil


Last problem that comes to my mind :
enemy = ryleh / pythium :
they mind duel your S2 mages to death with ease