Re: Please advise: can misfortune change on its o
Base Ulm is the only nation who should take a drain scale, and they should always take drain 3. This is due to the fact that the master smith, which is its only mage, is immune to any drain scale. The 240 extra pretender points for Ulm with drain 3 compared to all other nations with magic 3 is quite nice. Of course, Ulm is a weak nation, so this hardly matters. But other than Ulm, magic 2 or 3 is a NoB.
And, other than Ermor, all good players seem to pick order 3, as that is the best positive scale all around. It gives great income to provide for the inevitable mad castling. Sloth 3 is almost automatic for all races, even high resource nations like Ulm.
As bad as it is, though, I doubt there will be balanced scales until Dom 3.
In my standard pretender design for pretty most races, I pick:
Order 3
Sloth 3
Misfortune 2
Magic 3
Which costs only 40 design points. I then mess around with heat/cold and growth/death to balance whatever magic schools and dominion I can afford.
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