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Originally Posted by archaeolept
How, pray tell, are you getting these expensive communions to battle, w/ a map move of one? they have to dawdle along, ripe for harrassment and counter-attack.
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They're recruitable-anywhere, and mapmove doesn't matter when moving through enemy territory anyway. Mapmove 2 would be a convenience of course, but usually in a situation like this (mapmove 1 recruitable-anywhere mages, like LA Agartha's Ktonian necromancers) you just produce them near the front lines. Unlike Agartha, Jomon has the ability to forge a few pairs of winged boots and use them for ferrying mages around; I've tried that with Agartha when I manage to snag Obscuro, but in practice it's less hassle to just build mages where you need them.
Recall that I've never played Jomon, I'm just looking at their unit list. The mages look serviceable but you're right that strategic mobility appears limited, which it always is anyway when you're planning on communions. (Teleporting a 10-man communion around is not generally cost-effective.)
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Originally Posted by archaeolept
It is also rather disingenuous to say a nation has good SC's when what it has is the same SCs as anyone else. Well, ok, it has worse access to these due to Jomon's weakness in death magic.
Anyone claiming that Jomon has good access to SCs must concommitantly agree that everyone does, which makes the valuation "good" rather meaningless.
Jomon does have access to death 1, however, through the Nushi.
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(Although my favorite generic SC (Wraith Lord) isn't available to Jomon.)
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I.e. I didn't know about the Nushi. (What does it have, D2?) Also, on second thought, I can't think of that many good SCs that come out of the elemental trees except for the uniques, so maybe Jomon doesn't have "good" generic SC access either. Troll King is probably the best one available.
I don't think a nation has to have *national* SCs in order to have *good* SCs. The paths a nation can access are a major part of its national character.
-Max