[kianduatha]

Originally Posted by Verjigorm

30g and more expensive units eat upkeep quickly. However, the reason that I can take a Dormant SC pretender is that, for the short term, I can use the spider riders (which, as you say, are nice) for the early game until I can get my thug farm operational. As the game progresses, my spiders will become less and less viable since the upkeep will start to limit both their population and cramp my magical expansion.

Ah, spiders without the rider have no upkeep. Spam the everloving daylights out of them.