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Originally Posted by fosforo
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Originally Posted by Squirrelloid
The Triarii change doesn't bug me. But as i mentioned in the other thread, the cost of the censor could be zero and he'd never see play. It could give you money every time you hire him and never see play. So his actual hire cost is irrelevant.
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But I use it very often: he can lead a mix of living and undead troops, he is a holy unit with great damage and he has a interesting patrol bonus too (that I exploit greatly in the first stage of the game).
Usually I give him some good defensive item to gap his weakness and often I recruit a censor in the first/secon turn of the game, then I turn it in my prophet to improve is leader capability/holy level 3.
A Censor with a little group of Lictor can easily calm down the population (unrest) in the capital, letting me to fix the tax level to 150 and above for many many turns.
From his patrolling activity derives a good quantity of corpse that I usually trasform in undead unit.
Obviously I set my Growth/Death scales on +2 or +3 to consent this reiterated tactic.
I consider it an interesting commander, maybe am I wrong?
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Lictors also aren't worth using when you have Shadow Vestals. =)
First problem: Censor may be able to lead undead, but he can't bless them. Thus you would almost always rather have a thaumaturge or grand thaumaturge for that reason alone.
Second problem: Thaums and Grand Thaums can raise undead to fight for you. These are free troops that cost no upkeep. So no need to overtax.
Third problem: Mages can do research, teh censor can't.
Fourth and most important problem: Censor is cap-only. Grand Thaumaturge is cap-only. Every censor you hire is a grand thaumaturge you don't hire. Grand thaumaturges win the game for you, censors don't. QED: censors are a waste of time.
As to prophet - i make my starting scout a prophet and start reanimating longdead horsemen. He'll just sit in my capital all game doing that.
If you want censors to be useable, remove the cap-only restriction. Then they might actually see play. Competing for a single commander buy with your top tier mage means it loses every time.