[Boron]

Originally posted by Norfleet:

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Originally posted by Boron:
so far imho pan cw , pythium and abysia are very worth being built around a vq

CW Pan is basically the successor to the Ermor VQ since it's the nation that still has a buttload of points to spend. Pythium is a somewhat more dubious choice due to the scale demands: As VQs are horrifically expensive, you have to give up a lot of scales to use one with Pythium, as Pythium tends to want decent scales to pay for the legionaires, which have moderate resource costs, ruling out the ability to get points from excessive sloth, and the neutral temperature preference, which means you don't have anywhere to really dump points. Abysia can work if you dump points into Death scale, and the innate Heat scale.

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a basic vq is quite cheap with pythium .
something like order 3 , sloth 3 , cold 1 , death 3 , misfortune 2 , magic 3 ( if you cancel magic 3 +120 points so better scales ) .
dominion 6-8 .
castle watchtower .

this works great so far . 2 provinces / turn .
1 per vq , 1 per body etheralized principles .

then accashic everything , swamps first .

i have to figure out some good midgame strats still .

but really good early game expander . if you pick the tough provinces ( knights etc. ) with your vq the principles take out the weak provinces without losses ( maximum 1-2 lost through bad dice luck ) .

so you get almost 2 provinces / turn and can then castle everything quick because of order 3 you have quite good income still .

[ August 01, 2004, 00:20: Message edited by: Boron ]